New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-06-18
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by all the best cranberry cultiva,ors and the price
heretofore has been &c. quart II the crop this
year upon Cape Cod Is good average one, it Is ex-
pected that the price will be 2c quart and perhaps,
i5c q bushel. the to be picked will be much
srger than ever before, and the number Of ab0rers
less and wages generally higher.
Picking is hard, and sometimes wet work, but upon
plat that produces first rate the picker makes great
wages. He commences upon one side, combing the
berries of with lis fingers as far as he can reach as no
moves forward 10 as not TO trouble nor els.aro me
would cover space large as that where II grew
three or fonr berries deep Before packing the frat
must be dried enough 10 wnnov out the chah and al
rotten and wormy berries should be carefully picked
out II Ia also Of as much advantage to the producer
Of cranbees TO assert the 1t TO assert apples OF
potatoes before sending them TO market ms may Do
mostly done by screening, and at the same time INC
chaff may be blown away.
The practice OF storing in bulk and sweating. before
packing In barrels Is practised by cranberrygrowers
lust as 1t Is by the most successful apple growers Dr
Shroye estimates the average cost q picking storing
cleaning sorting and barreiDg, including cost Oh
casks at o. barrel. Whatever they sell for ABOVE
that goes TO pay interest on the investment anu Po'
Pests Of the CrdnJsry Gropr.-These are insects;
drouths and frosis The farmer who may DC tempted
by what have said to undertake cranberry cuitlva
ton must consider that he Is no more exempt rom
pests with this semiaquatc crop than no Is with any
other. Sometimes whole country Of wheat Is ravaged
~ an insect small that IL 10 only noticed when its
numbers form q cloud The ost crop has been eaten py
worms A disease the course Of which has never been
discovered destroys whole folds Of potatoes. drouth
parohes the fields and staryes the cattle ana droutn
sometimes dries up the cranberry crop, and single
frost In May will sometimes ruin the hopes OF that
year. and IL the buds escape the most an insect may
eat them to nearly ruin the yield Another ea i
the leaves and still another spreads over the vines TIL
they look as though they had been scorched with nre
II they escape these three then comes the berry worm
which commences boring through and through tne
berries from the time they one-fourtb grown ana
continues until they are ripe sometimes tying nan
dozen together with its web.
Ii the fruit escapes all these pests 1t not yet out OF
danger A single white frost falling upon the fruit
Just before II IS ready to pick. viii soften more than haf
the berries so that they will not bear packing Tor MARKET
Flooding and chat for-Fornsrly 1t ws the practice
sraosrrv meadows ali Winter This was done princi
pay for the purpose OF keeping the plants back 20 that
they would bloom till late In june 30 as TO cscaPe
the spring os II has been found that IL throws the
crop back IN Autumn so TO eudanger it more than
in Spring Where there Is good command OF water,
and the meadow graded In levels the noodng can Oe
regulated both Spring aud Autumn 70 AVOID AL dansor
Of ost and the ground can be kept saturated IN sum
rner so "a 20 prevent any Ill effects OF drouth
Saturation is better than flooding for all the time the
fruit, is growing except for the purpose OF destroying
worms. For this purpose cover the whole meadow
several inches deep few honrs at time. II is also
Of the greatest Importance to be able 70 suddenly HOOD
the meadow when there Is danger OF frost In Auu1n
IL Is also OF great value In tho picking season whcn
runs from September 10 November. 10 be able 10 draw
down the water inches, at least below the eve OF
tho soil. Pickers can be hired TO work upon a ry
meadow cheaper than upon wet one, Tor upon sucn
one females can be employed II Is therefore highly
important that the facilities Of flooding rapidly. and
draining low. should be well arranged.
Tie HIbitaf Of Ae Cyasbsry.-It Is found naturally on
tho sea coast OF Massachusetts Rhode Island Connect
icut New York. and New Jersey. and In many swamps
in the interior Of those States and IN Pennsylyania'
Ohio. Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, MIME l
soa etc and has been cultivated 70 some extent In al
those statcs and might be to large profit II people
only knew how TO begin and bow 70 conduct the opera
iion to One In each neishborhood would sc.
many others At work that the result would De as IL
has been upon Cape Cod. There you cannot rde
helf dozen miles without seeing cranberry plantation
and in places they are seen upon almost every
farm. And tie business appears 10 be spreading al
over the country. 49, n,,,
At Cation. sieuben County, n. Y, Mr.. Noble Hill
appears have succeeded well In cranberry cultivation
upon peay swamp Of several acres, formerly covered
with bushes grass and weeds. common In such sitna,
tons As IL subject 10 overflow, large timber ala
not grow upon the swamp. Mr.. Hill found lew vines
upon tho border the central portion being too wet
which he drained by open bitches and an outlet dug
through bank which retained the water. AS soon as
the surface drained the cranberry vines began to
spring up probably from latent seeds In tho mud. but
the bushcs and weeds proved great detriInents, and
induced tho owner to subdue them which he did BY the
pillow the border. where oIen could work. and oy
hand where they could not The BOD taken on was
used FOR manure The exposed surface then stirred
two or three inches deep and planted with vines MI
Hill thinks that II the surface was kept exposed and
stirred occasionally through the Summer before plant
ing that tie vines would take better. lie mentions
Spring planting but readers will pease remember that
Cape Cod experience indicates Autumn a. Tar preiera
Die. Mr. IIll recommends close planting. and wedding
two or three seasons Then the vines take possession
Of tie soil and need further attention He expects
annual crop amer the third year aud has picked tne
clusters Of berries from vines Get the prevOus May To
insure large crops he foods In Spring 10 keep the BIOS
back untl oil danger OF trost Is gone and then
Keeps tho under soil saturated with water during sum
mer This Is done by small gates In dams across the
main bitches. The same plan Is pursued upon Cape
Cod and flooding L. sometimes resored % In Autumn 10
protect the berries from frost they are rendered unit
fOr shipping purposes II exposed 10 white frost barely
hard enough to KIN potato vines IL sofens the berries
40 that they will not bear packing without MASKING and
that rots others and Injuries the salab!e yaae Of all
For family use exposure 10 frost or even hard freezing
does not jure tie berries. If fully ripe Unrpe ones
rot by freezing.
OF success in transplantng. Mr.. Hill thinks that
more failures would occur with cabbage than cranber
RIGS Vines may be laid down yord long. and slightly
covered leaving the tops of the upgts out Of the SOIL
and all viii grow and form strong plants.
In Burlington County. New-Jcrsey, We have reports
Of cranberry meadows owned by &r. Chetwood, Of %
acres: by Mr.. Gowdy, OF II acres by Mr. Allen Of 10
acres and ia reported that ~ acres were planted in
that county in one season In other parts of South Je
culture In SUSSEX County there is tract equal 20 10
miles square which might be all easily converted into
cranberry meadows. and from value OF few cents an
acre. it would then be worth from 800 70 $1,000 an
acre similar land is upon Cape Cod. And similar
amps exist all the country. producing malaria
and muskotoes and the best OF them no crop OF any
value What il all these were converted into fruitful
cranberry gardcnsi The country would not be
stocked with the fruit because there is foreign de-
maud that cannot easily DO supplied. The price has
ranged FOR years from s. to e5 barrel and sales
more easily effected than when the quantity In market
was no. a tenth what IL WAS last year.
There are very successful cranberry growers in
Rhode Island Mr.. NJ. V. Cary %, Burrllyile, Prov.-
dence County. and Mr. 4. Bacley OF Usqucpaug Wash.
ington County whose fruit have seen Ia the New.
York market and there may be many others.
Nmnn Of the name of Young. who lives AZ Lakeland
on the Long Island Railroad in the OF the tract
known as "Scrnb Oak Bauens. has growa crnnbor.
lies successfully upon that dry soil making them the
most profitable cropoi anything on his place.