M is for Mayflower: A Massachusetts Alphabet

M is for Mayflower: A Massachusetts Alphabet — page 7
Used from early days as food and fertil izer the cod is olive gray in color and weighs from ten to twenty pounds Its image has been featured on stamps coins and official seals The Sacred Cod a five foot long wooden fish carved in 1784 hangs in the Massachusetts House of Representatives Chamber It points north when Democrats hold the majority and south when Republicans do so Massachusetts grows more than half of America's cranberry crop Used to make cranberry juice jams and jellies the tart berry grows on the South Shore coast and is native to Plymouth the Islands of Nantucket and Cape Cod Each fall the ripened red berries turn wetland bogs into beautiful pools of brilliant crimson In Massachusetts you will find more than 12 000 acres of cranberry bogs