Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1915 — SHORTAGE OF CRANBERRIES [ARTICLE]

SHORTAGE OF CRANBERRIES

Government Reports a Decrease in Trimmings for the Thanksgiving Turkey. Washington.—According to the reports received by the department of agriculture from the cranberry fields of the United States, there may not be enough sauce for the Thanksgiving turkey this year. Information from the cranberry sections of Cape Cod, New Jersey and Wisconsin is that in consequence of the cold weather of a few weeks ago the crops will be short. Cast season there were 625,000 barrels from these three sections, but, according to best estimates now, the coming crop will not exceed 400,000 barrels. On the contrary, the predictions from the South are that the turkey crop will be larger than ever before in this country.