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Show Biiraper Cranberry Crop Is Harvested WASHINGTON. Turkey eaters, honing their appetites this holiday season, will not want for tangy cranberry cran-berry sauce, for another bumper crop of the tart berry that adds tradition as well as zest to holiday feasts has been harvested in the Cape Cod district. True to form, the Cape Cod sector again will supply about two-thirds of the nation's cranberry supply. Occasionally, as in 1944, the Cape Cod crop falls short of expectations and the berry is scarce in the nation's na-tion's grocery stores. I Thousands of harvesters, working with slotted scoops and nimble fin-i fin-i gers through the fall months, have combed the nation's bogs to gather more than 800,000 barrels. The crop is second only to the 1937 output of 877,300 barrels. In 1942 as well as in 1937, Massachusetts marshes produced pro-duced a few thousand barrels more ! than their estimated total of 550,000 1 barrels for the present crop. I More than $50,000,000 is invested in the scientific business of growing and processing cranberries. The industry in-dustry puts to use about 50 square miles of land that previously lay ; waste, unsuited to any other type of ; agriculture. The new crop, worth i about $9,000,000, will reach stores in ' the form of sauce, juice and dehy-I dehy-I drated fruit, as well as in raw fruit form. |