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Title: Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine
Identifier: cranberriesnatio4951port (find matches)
Year: 1936 (1930s)
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Subjects: Cranberries
Publisher: Portland, CT (etc. ) : Taylor Pub. Co. (etc. )
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price. They stop "buying of, all berries." He stressed the fact that grow- ers should listen to their sales agents—"ship as they tell you to. They know their markets. Of all the responsibilities the grower has the most important is to ship quality berries. This is num'ber one in importance." Growers need not worry about control on pi'ccess for the pres- ent, he said with cranberries so far below parity. Parity for Feb. 15 was S20.60 per bbl., he said. Turning to unity of the grow- cum IndustrmI Engln&s and Power U^ks
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"Paits and Service" WALTER H. MORETON, CORP. 9 Commercial Ave. Cambridge, Eli. 4-7891 ors, he said there has been too much animosity, too much suspi- cion among the growers them- selves, too much "propaganda, about who is selling through who." He said that as long as the indus- try is stirred up within itself mar- ket-wise buyers take advantage of this animosity and confusion. He told of the days in 1908 when he first came to Wareham and stayed at a local hotel called the Ken- drick House where many of the buyers of cranberries met at that time. He said these buyers fixed the prices there each night—not the growers. He said he had always been a cooperator at heart, and then turned to the new movement to form' a marketing organization in Massachusetts at "growers' level," and said this is "merely to get a common meeting place where we can meet as growers and discuss our common marketing problems. We have for a long time now been too complacement as to our responsibilities. Let us now accept them." The new movement, he con- tinued, might be the nucleus of a new over-all cooperative, of which he would be heartilly in favor. He said emphatically that any such new group m-ust be distinctly not a part of Cape Cod Cranberry NOW IS THE TIME To Try Some Constructive Thinking And Planning For The Coming Season What to budget for weed control, insect control, sanding, and other bog "musts". It is an excellent time to review those seldom-checked insurance policies. Are they up-to-date, are they adequate, are they written at the lowest possible cost? Call on Eben A. Thacher for experienced assistance in making this review. Brewer & Lord INSURANCE 40 Broad Street, Boston, Mass. Telephone: Hancock G-OC30 Growers' Association, the function of which was entirely different and which should not be threatened with "the dynamite" of the mar- keting situation. Concerning the point of grow- ers "knowing their industry," he said "know the facts of what the costs of selling are; the facts of what your net is to you; what your agent is doing." He said the growers should be proud of their industry, the state is proud of it as the leading export crop, and that the industry should be pub- licized and plugged in all ways possible. Separators Causing Bruising In the panel discussion Robert E. Hammond urged a quality pro- duct. He said have the berries uniform in both size and color, and to always pack the best on hand, "don't pack for fresh market ber- ries that are a little tender." The uniformity of color and size is more important because of cello- phane and window box pack. He said present methods of separating fruit "raises the dickens with our berries by bouncing them all around." Until an improved meth- od is developd, he said, keeping the separator clean helps and also to keep the screeners from doing things which tended to cause iuither injury to the berries. He also urged growers to consult with their selling agent closely before shipping. The grower undoubtedly knows more about his own berries than anybody else, Russell Makepeace said, that is, the "history" of his crops, but when it came to m'arket- ing, unfortunately, there were other factors, market factors which the sellers know but the grower does not. He urged growers not to take any risks in shipping fruit which might not be sound, to take the advise of his agent in this re- spect. He discusssed the difficulty in regard to exact weight in cello- phane. He said there had been complaints when 16'a and even 17 ounces had been packed and when inspected at the stores the package had been found to be short of 16 ounces of cran- berries. He urged growers not to pack in cellophane ahead, hoping Eiehteen

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