1.   If the trend continues, state officials say a water shortage could jeopardize everything from fire protection to the fall cranberry harvest.

2.   In parts of the country with a cranberry harvest, the work is a postcard portrait.

3.   The cranberry harvest begins in mid-September, running in different parts of the country right up until Thanksgiving.

4.   This year, Ocean Spray had to delay the introduction of some new products because of shortfalls in two of the three previous cranberry harvests.

5.   Two short crops in the last three cranberry harvests have led to some rival juice companies offering growers higher prices for a barrel of cranberries than Ocean Spray has.

6.   White believed that such cultivation would be a profitable second crop, one occurring a month before the cranberry harvest.