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Figure 4 shows the acreage of bearing bog in the State in 1934 by counties 

 and principal varieties. Table 10 and Figure 5 give the acreages of new bog 

 planted and old bog rebuilt in 1932 and 1933, by counties and varieties; and 

 show that the growers are still interested almost exclusively in Early Black 

 and Howes. 



The relative sales by the New England Cranberry Sales Company of Early 

 Black, Howes, and miscellaneous varieties from 1914 to 1934 are given in 

 percentages in Table 11. For the three years covered by the survey, this 

 Company handled about 56 percent of the entire Massachusetts crop, and 

 Early Blacks and Howes made up an average of 92 percent of its sales. In 

 1917, a large part of the Early Blacks were sold as miscellaneous because they 

 were injured by a severe freeze in early September. 



Table 11. — Percentage of Sales of New England Cranberry Sales 

 Company Classed as Early Black, Howes, and Miscellaneous 



1914 — 1934 



Year Early Black Howes Miscellaneous 



1914 52.1 



1915 45.8 



1916 50.8 



1917 36.3 



1918 54.0 



1919 48.9 



1920 53.0 



1921 45.4 



1922 52.0 



1923 50.4 



1924 49.2 



1925 52.2 



1926 54.3 



1927 55.2 



1928 49.4 



1929 48.0 



1930 51.0 



1931 52.3 



1932 48.1 



1933 56.4 



1934 54.3 



CRANBERRY PRODUCTION 



The earliest consistent effort to get accurate estimates of cranberry produc- 

 tion for each of the three main centers of the industry was that made by 

 N. R. French, Statistician for the New Jersey Cranberry Growers' Association, 

 which later became the American Cranberry Growers' Association. This 

 Association was organized in 1869, and the reports of their annual convention 

 contain estimates of the crop beginning with the year 1872 for New England, 

 New Jersey, the West, and New York. No check-up of these estimates against 

 shipments was made, however, until 1883. In Table 17 (in the appendix), the 

 figures for the years 1872 to 1882, inclusive, are estimates only and are taken 

 from the Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Convention of the American 



