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Title: Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine
Identifier: cranberriesnatio6063port (find matches)
Year: 1936 (1930s)
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Subjects: Cranberries
Publisher: Portland, CT (etc. ) : Taylor Pub. Co. (etc. )
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries

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Abandoned Bog Given To Cape Plan of Society to Restore This Abandoned Piece of Property as Bit of Cape Na- tural History — John Hay, President of Group Tells of Plans. A piece of unused Cape Cod cran- berry bog 'has been donated to the Cape Cod Junior Museum df Natural History, Inc., of Brewster, Mass- achusetts. The donor is Milton 'M. Gray, Jr., real estate dealer of Or- leans, an adjoining town. iMr. Gray has given the piece in memory of his late father, cranberry grower. The piece looosists of a little less than 'an acre of bog, now in laton- doned condition and looking little like ta toranberry bog of commerce as trees and undertbrush have grown up on tJhe bog, and ditches have filled in. However, wtater still runs down the ditch and the vines are there. It is the plan of the Mviseiim to re- store a little less than half of this bog, to sfoaJip the surface, rebuild ditches, flumes, replant land put it into bearing condition. It will never ibe la icommercial bog, but it will be restored 'as a imodel bog. The ibog is very handy to the major iproject of the Junior Museum as it adjoinls a strip o*f about 48 acres fwihich the society owns along Stoney Brook road in historic Stoney Brook valley of West Brewster. This land runs from the site of 'an old grist (mill, la noted landlmark of the Cape on route 6-iA. noiw known as the Cran- berry Highwiay. The property is used as a nature sanctuary. It has isorae piatlhs through it now and will have more and is avadlable for iguided nature study land enjoyment of nlatural growth of trees, shrubs and plants of the wood- liands. It is an ideal place for peo- iple studying (bird life; it contain:- awaDnpy sections with an extensive marsh area, filled iwith marine life 'and plants indiginous to low-lying sections of Cape iCod. The Brewster town hall bas been lavailable for nature classes since Janujariy of 1956. There are weekly IdLaslses runniing a seminar olf six weeks, apring, summer and after school begins in the fall. Qualified volimteers give their services as in- structors. These include Ransom SomeiTs, (a retired geologist, Inez Williams wlho instructs on insect life Natural History Museum
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John Hay in his Library. (CRANBERRIES Photo) Eleven

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