Show STORY OF < THE CRAN7JERRY I history of the cranberry can lie i L a bit of parchment no larger ho fruit Heolf but to judge Its L by Its length would bo like Eg the gurrys Importance by Its I jt Tho cranberry to begin with ay of Its christening was soft rut so-ft because Us sponsors fancied Its bud resembled a crane and 1st Just before the bud expands n fee perfect flower with stem ca Ad petals It resembles the nock land bill of that ungainly bird It was originally dubbed crane jopUlarlzed Into cranberry if jb all families of Importance In htr fgrlcultural race the cranberry fa Imposing genenlogy Its Euro t forbears belonged to the clan of lacclnlum oxycoccus how long Incrlran branch or the nmcrocap n I las been established here nobody L but It began to attract atten e bout 100 years ago Its acquaint was first cultivated In the Cape region of Massachusetts New Ind has ever been ready to pay a jet to ancestry gradually worked Its way out of frlty until today the cranberry tics a place of no mean Industrial Importance In the community year it adds to the wealth of our nation all the way from 3000000 to 14000000 Tho family Is exceedingly prolific 1 300000 bushels being produced In the United States leaving Europe far be hind In quantity as well as In Its quality About G j per cent ot the family arc born and reared In Massachusetts for the greater part In the districts of Capo Cod Plymouth and narnatable Now Jersey which devotes more of Its territory to the cranberry than another an-other state in the Union save Massachusetts Massa-chusetts rolls up 24 per cent and takes second place Some years ago forest fires destroyed the marshes and dried up the streams ot Wisconsina calamity which educed the production of the Wisconsin berry to 11 per cent and forced that state to assume third place but Wisconsin Is gradually recovering re-covering and is striving for a position at the head The rest of the cranberries cranber-ries hall from Connecticut Illinois Iowa Kansas Maine Michigan Minnesota Min-nesota Nebraska New Hampshire New York North Dakota Oregon Rhode Island Washington and West Virginia Pearsons Magazine |