. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. growing and while an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, he worked summers at the then Wis- consin Cranberry Experiment Sta- tion, and following this spent a year in Massachusetts. At Minnesota Uni- versity he met the late Dr. Hemy J. Franklin and later asked Dr. Franklin for a job at the Massachu- setts Cranberry Experiment Sta- tion, which he eventually obtained. He also worked in forestry in Mass- achusetts and in 1911 returned to Wisconsin and organized the Badger Cranberry Company. In Massachu- setts he also worked o
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. growing and while an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, he worked summers at the then Wis- consin Cranberry Experiment Sta- tion, and following this spent a year in Massachusetts. At Minnesota Uni- versity he met the late Dr. Hemy J. Franklin and later asked Dr. Franklin for a job at the Massachu- setts Cranberry Experiment Sta- tion, which he eventually obtained. He also worked in forestry in Mass- achusetts and in 1911 returned to Wisconsin and organized the Badger Cranberry Company. In Massachu- setts he also worked on the bog of the late Paul Thompson at Middle- boro. He was at one time a director of Wisconsin Cranberry Sales Company the fresh fruit division of American Cranberry Exchange. Mr. Lewis was one of three who brought Mr. Bain to Wisconsin, from the United States Department of Agriculture to study cranberry growing in Wisconsin. He was a traveling inspector for the exchange for a number of years, and was ever an ardent advocate of "orderly ; It was he who introduced the Isaac Harrison (New Jersey) grass cutter to Wisconsin which greatly changed marsh man- agement in Wisconsin. "Chuck" studied Technical Agri- culture at college to fit himself better to become a cranberry grower. The small town of Shell Lake had only a single industry and that was and is the Shell Lake Boat Company, with a factory building boats. This was recently "on the rocks," and according to a feature article in the Milwaukee Sentinal, Mr. Lewis help- ed organize a citizen's group, which "picked up the pieces," and got the Washburn County plant to working again, making fiber glass models. He is president of the company and Chuck is treasurer. The company now employs 50. The company was originally organized in 1904 on the shores of Shell Lake, a beautiful Hiibbiiii INSECTICIDES. AVAILABLE ON THE CAPE FROM R. C. Moss "^m Horticultora Sates West Bridgewater,
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