The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-05
THE AMERIoAN oRANBERRE.
Its Fight for Recognition and It's Final Acc
 ceptance in England.
From the Philadelphia Tlmes.l

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 festival in Europe and they do not
 know the fruit How sadl Yet there is
 hope for the benighted foreigners,
 thanks to efforts now being made to
 introduce this luscious product to the
 soil abroad. It is already making a
 reputation for itself both in Great Brit
 ain and on the Continent, following in
 the footsteps of American corn.
 Last years was the biggest crop ever
 gathered in the United States-over
 1OOO,OOO bushels-and the principal
 growers contributed by agreement per
 cent. of their product to pay the eX-
 penses of introducing cranberries in
 England. A. J. Rider, of Trenton, N. J.,
 was sent across the water for the pur-
 pose. On reaching Liverpool he found
 in that city only one dealer in cranber- res, small girl in the market, who
 said she never ate her wares herself
 because they tasted like medicine"
 She only sold them to few Americans. | It was quickly made evident that in | England only Americans ate cranber-
 rles, which to the natives was a deli cacy unknown. About 1000 bushels of | them were imported from the United
 States annually. Nothing daunted, the 1 American propagandist went to the
 leading hotels and restaurants and faI1ohf I,,,tx 4
 cranberries which he furnished They
 were at first incredulous, then delight
 ed, and finally eager to offer the new food to their customers.
 Cards appeared at the restaurants
 reading, American Cranberries Served
 To-day" At one popular eating house
 cranberries occurred in five places on
 the bill of fare. The small girl already
 mentioned sold out her stock of the
 fruit faster than she could renew 1t, and within a few days eight other hucksters on the same aisle in the mar ket were dealing in oranberries. It was a positive craze.
 At Manchester Dublin Belfast Gias- sow and Edinburgh the cranberries
 were introduced in a similar fashion and like results followed Cranberrles were placed on sale by the largest fruiterers. However, he3demandr rcreat- ed by the means described had one un- welcome result Large consignments of cranperies from Russia were thrown on the market, causing prices to drdb
 This was wholly unexpected, and for time it looked as thought such rivalry would kill the American cranberries
 To cap the climax, Russian berries were sold by interruptions dealers at a lower price under the name of American cranberries" ..
 The Yankee agent made an investiga- tion and discovered that the Russian berries were of an inferior variety. known in the United States as "hog cranberries" and not considered fit for food, having a very bitter and pungent taste. No time was lost in making pub lie the cheat through the newspapers and by threats of prosecution the deal CTS were forced to remove the mislead- ing sign. Within a few days the signs reappeared with genuine American cranberries under them, and sales rap idly increased, while the fraudulent ar- ticle could scarcely be sold at any price.
 Cases of cranberries, accompanied by receipts, were graciously accepted by her majesty the queen and the prince l of Wales. An important part of the propagandist's work was to teach peo- pie how to cook the fruit With the | cranberry the situation is the same as with corn in Europe-ignorance of prop l CT methods of cookery stand in the | way of it's introduction. Even on the | going over the agent found | { at the cook was using metal utensils | in the preparation of the berries. Only | porcelain or enameled ware ought to be used, because cranberries contain sul- | phuric and other acids, which act on copper, iron and tin so as to spoil the flavor of the fruit
 On each of the paper bags supplied | by the agents to retailers were printed instructions for cooking. Every per sons who bought a pound of fruit had receipts for preparing 1t in variety of ways. The cranberry literature dis in England has been translat- su lnlO IHe DdIlSH ldIIB WHICH a1l- swers for Denmark, Norway and Swed- en, and 1t will be rendered into French and German. Dealers in Berlin and Paris have expressed a willingness to take limited quantities of the berries 1t regular intervals. Colonel c. J. Murphy, who has done so much for American corn abroad, is interesting himself in the introduction of cran- berries on the Continent.
 MT. Riders most interesting and sat sfactory experience was with the Eng ish jam makers. The magnitude of the am business in that country is aston shing. One factory near Liverpool cov- ITS several acres of ground and has | capacity of 150 tons per day. This is )nly one of a score of establishments of ,qual capacity while there are hun lreds of less size. The British are am-loving and a jam-eating people. They may not know how to cook cram berries, but they can beat the Ameri- [ ans hollow at making jam. Well, the jam manufacturers would lot have anything to say to the Yankee gent. They had no time to grant in- erviews requested, inasmuch as they ( eli not the slightest interest in cran- 1