| Show bumper cranberry crop Is harvested washington turkey eaters honing their appetites this holiday season will not want for or tangy cranberry sauce for another bumper crop of 0 the tart berry that adds tradition as well as zest to holiday feasts has been harvested in the cape cod district distrI cL true to form the cape cod sector again will supply about two thirds of the nations cranberry supply occasionally as in 1944 the cape cod crop falls short of expectations and the berry is scarce in the nations grocery stores thousands of harvesters working with slotted scoops and nimble fingers through the fall months have combed the nations bogs to gather more than barrels the crop Is second only to the 1937 output of barrels in 1942 as well as in 1937 massachusetts marshes produced a few ew thousand barrels more than their estimated total of barrels tor for the present crop more than Is invested in the scientific business of growing and processing cranberries the industry puts to use about 50 square miles of land that previously lay waste unsuited to any other type of agriculture the new crop worth about will reach stores in the form of sauce juice and dehy fruit as well as in raw fruit form |
