TYPE-OF-FARMING AREAS IN MASS. 



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Figure 15. Massachusetts Cranberry Bogs. 







Total Bog 

 1 dot=25 acres 



Full Flowage 



Protectiou 



1 dot=25 acres 



Cranberries.^ 



Massachusetts produces about 60 per cent of the annual cranberry crop 

 of the United States. Cranberries are grown on the bog or muck lands of 

 Barnstable and Plymouth Counties. A few bogs are also to be found in 

 Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, and Nantucket. The accompany- 

 ing chart (Figure 15) shows the distribution of cranberry bogs by towns. 

 Carver and Wareham, Rochester and Plj-mouth have the most bogs per 

 unit of land area. Cranberrj' bogs range in size from one acre to 258 acres. 

 The average size is 6.5 acres and over 85 per cent of all holdings are less 

 than 10 acres in size. However, out of 2149 holdings. 111 of 2,' acres or 

 more contain almost half of the total bog acreage 



^ Data on cranl)erries obtainert from ''Cranberry Acreage and Production in Massa- 

 chusetts." New England Crop Reporting Service, Boston, Massachusetts; -July, 19'25. 



