Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-10-27

INANBtNh1 Nll4I l itE IN ' lhblNiA ~ NUT
TABLE CRoP DR.. Cullen, OF Hanover county
has raised this season twenty.three barrels Of
cranterrics on a quarter OF an acre OF land -
Tribbett the Richmond cOniectioncr, bought
the crop at ten dollars barrel, At this rate,
cranberries would bring nearly a thousand dol
lars an acre, and would be the most profitable
crop that Hanover and icnrico farmers could
plant.
In this connection, some facts connected with
cranberry culture may be OF interest to the
country reader Men in New Jersey and Mas,
sachusetts have made fortunes by raising this
little sour berry; but the business is yet in its
infancy. 4 marvellous fact about it IL, that as
the supply is enlarged the price grows. Twen.
ty years ago crantcrries were sold at a dollar a
bu,hc and the quantity in the market was
very small. The supply Increased yearly, and
the price jumped TO two dollars. Then 1t rose
steadily until now every buShel raised will bring
four dollars cash. John Webb. of Cassville,
n. j., lives on the edge of dismal morass,
which has been BY his industry converted from
u frog pond into i mint, and every year he
takes from s. 900 to $4,000 worth Of Gran.
berries lrolnla sour, cold, mossy, grassy surface,
ten acres in extent. Twenty years ago he was
rs poor as poverty: to-day he Is millionaire,
Two sorts Of land are found appropriate to
this vine, and they are tit TOR little else 1hey
are known as the savanna swamp and the ce-
r.muck swamp. They differ more in degree
than in nature. The first has black, sour
swamp muck mixed with sand. In the cedar
bog there is little or noadmiSture OF sand, the
neat being alike in all parts OF the bed-black
and sour-varying in depth from one TO SIX
feet \ savanna bog is more easily put In, but
NOT 80 sour as the other. The cost OF prepar-
inc the land the first year Is about fifty dollars;
afterwards the annual expense is comparatively
trihng. II vines are set out In the tall, on the
following tall q few berries may be gathered.
The next year crop of twenty. five or thirty dol
lars an acre may be expected, and IN the third
wear full crop OF from 100 20 300 bushels an
acre will reward the farmer.
The established price OF picking bushel Is
fifty cents, and the package in which 1t Is
marketed costs twenty cents. For some years
the price at which the bulk OF cranbcrrles Is sold
is four dollars per bushcl, but late ia autumn
or 10 the winter they often command live and
six dollars. The abundance OF other tart fruits
of course affects the price. e.-Rtch. Dt$Patch,
No END TO TuEM.-We read an advertise
ment the other day containing the names OF
eleven new novels. OF the eleven authors
seven Were women.
Most of this stuff Is sheer nonsense, scrlb-
bled by men and women Of no education either.
Who are those that read it? Really We cant
tell Yet there must be found very numerous
admirers of the trash, or 1t would not be pub
lshed.
fhe works Of fiction Of former years were
not only really useful, but positively necessary
for supplementiug history. Indeed We do not
think that a Just aud living conception OF any
period can be obtained without getting vivid
glance at il in the pages OF the novelist. -
Scots novels have done more to illustrate the
dry records of the past than could have been
possible through any other medium, and the
same may be said in an interior degree OF the
works Of Bulwer, as we'll as those OF Dumas 10
France, aud others.
But the million of volumes OF light litera
ture' turned out every year are Tor the most
part composed of books of fiction written by
people Of so little reading that they cannot
benefit the world by increasing ITS knowleuSe'
\ot an original or improving thought can oe
gathered from many OF them; yet their stories
arc tbe only mental food that many OF our young
gentlemen and ladies' feed upon. Is II then
To- be wondered at that the conversation OF TOO
many of them all over the country Is so utterly
;nane when they have never read anything TO
impart ideasf
Thr tide of this stuff is increasing with every
apparent appearance of becoming more and
more worthless every year. We can see no
prospect that writer's OF brains can succeed IN
attracting the attention OF the million, anu We
cannot hope for any but the worst effects In
the future upon the minds OF coming genera
tions. - Norfolk Journal.
Rosa BoNuEUR.-A young Fhiladelphlar
who has been in Paris dining with Rosa Bon
heur thus goSSips about her "She has th(
FieuchmanS way OF placing her index hnge'
along the full length of her nose, which | never
before saw woman do; and she parts he'
hair on one side like man. letting it fall or
her forehead 1t is entirely gray, excep
where it is snow white. Indeed, the lady look;
older than her mother She talks euergetcally
clearly, and rather didactcaIly, hut is cxtre
meIy pleasant. Harry showed her his pistol
and she said :: Oh, yes, know, carry on
lust like it. and she pulled it out Of her pocke
10 show il to us. As it was loaded, 1t fright
euod the family considerably to see her maneu u
YER il in her off hand way. After dinner sh
smoked her cigar like the other gentlemen
the party.