The Republican journal., 1886-12-02
A November Outing.

Once more tie Artist and the Scribe We're on
the road to Searsmont, the guests of Mr.. III. l..
Woodcock. More than a Year had elapsed
since their October outing, and now it was
dull and drear November. The cabbage patch
which had attracted the Artist on the former
occasion still held the fort, although >horn of
its full proportions of green and purple by
Halloween rayages or the demands of the mar
ket. There was no autumnal foliage to lend
bright bits of color to the landscape, and the
leaves lay sodden and dead on the ran-soaked
ground. For all that the ride was a pleasant
one and not without picturesque features, and
an open wagon, when it is not stormy. is pref
cradle to a covered stage. Some where on the
road halt was made at a hospitabIe farm
house, and the party We're regacd on cider and
supplied with choice fruit. In due season
Woodbne Cottage was reached and supper
over the party We're seated before a blazing
wood fire in the quaint setting room. 1t took
some little time to get things arranged in
batchelor style, for since our former visit the
house had been in charge of ''w0men folks"
and everybody knows they are ''dreadfully MP
IL
ing chairs We're in motion and pipes alight, and
Percy fingered the light guitar and the flames
roared and cracked in the wide fire place. and
with Roy asleep on the rug and the eat purring
in Franks lap it was a scene of solid comfort.
And such glorious night. Looking out Of the
window it seemed as though the Ground was
covered with snow, 50 brilliant was the moon
light, and there was no chill in the air, although
next morning everything out doors was cover
ed with Il white frost The ten hours sleep
which followed good night" was worth a
longer journey, and the morning was pcrfec-
ton itself bright and bracng-a dav when it is
good to be out in the country and out of doors
After a late breakfast the party drove to the
village and on the return went across the fields
to the lower dam. Work here began during
our former visit and the completed structure
was seen for the first time by the visitors.
Like everything else in connection with this
cranberry enterprise it is thorough piece of
work, and has cone to stay. From near this
dam sand has been taken to cover the marsh
and railway is laid from the pit to the farth-
crest point that has been plouyhcd and Ievred
Walking the track and ties we visited the
marsh. About eight acres have been leyclcd
and >anded and this area is smooth nS Il floor
but interSected with bitches to permit the
water to be drawn off. Some plants were set
out last summer and are doing well. and next
season the whole area will be occupied our
visit was one of business combined with pleas
urc and returning to the lower dam the gates
We're closed preparatory to flooding the marsh.
Then driving to the upper dam the gates there
We're opened, and the waters of Quantcbacuok
poured through. In less than an hour pools
began to show here and there ON the marsh be-
low and it was not long before il was A lake.
and yet there was no pcrceptbe fall i'll the
pond above. Unless something unforeseen oc-
ours the marsh will remain Hooded until >,ring
when the setting out of plants will be resumed.
1t may appear like counting chickens before
they are hatched, hut Mr. Woodrock was
asked how Id intended to gather hs cranbclrfc>,
and the reply was "By hand" \ few days
later we read in the Industrial journal an
account Of the Gilc Cranberry Works in Alfred.
where novel mod: Of harvesting and prepar-
ing the berries for market is in successful olrl-
alton. We quote a> follows:
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~, ti N.Y. are ePI'iuFr>i"eiN '4["lel
o,,1 "n ',hI 'uM III" ~ lhe Ileaa OF HE'Nei Iohd'
,,.i ,,ii'' %'iout tI>' oI tht >hlkcr village. hen
w. Ni>tuI" an' p'aGt therc were nearly twelve
"a, az ~ ti ~ ledlH loF harvest ne manner
~ " tplin2 .i2 lhl> WORK iH novel one ana cannot
n', nu % oi""gnH urIfilord' lh'N season the mil
liis Iee!l repaired ana new machinery put IN,
the nrorrls If @,fherin7. in,' H. nr" l,
closed. which causes the water to rise. and the
I"rio I,'rr Soom "e[o'G en!lely submerged and the
dress their Iower ryrn,niic m in Inm.j ,ID,j
rubber-boots and travel back a,rl forward
yIoSS W h"m ,n w nlfaloW d>enSa4inT jhr berries
of abonf 20 fnrt in Innti ,,,, ,oo'ii
side Of the tract and near the end. Two men
Nlal'' on lhe opposite >i,ie ahd draw this boom
if 70 I'M; irTn,vo, tr,,,,7 't'i,' V''',.lH''
are tloated to the mill
N' 'ilS fhd "l lilS passage the usefulness of
more than onr borsr ,nI f.' ! , iomti 7 'i,l
WATER A long brIt cvt,n,iu,e fro,n rho ,,.otaI.