The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1902-12-03
The Cranberry Crop.

divided between half a dozen
large cities, including New
York, philadelphia, Chicago,
Minneapolis, st. Louis and
Kansas City. A few years
ago Philadelphia was the cen
ter. On the Pacific coast Los
! Angeles consumes the most
cranberry sauce in proportion
to it's size, for the reason, per-
haps, of the large contingent
of Fasteners who haI e set
tied there. Few cranberries
are shipped to the Southern
cities of the United States,
Baltimore or Washington
marking the lower boundary
of the trade.
The bulk of the cranberries
of this country come from the
part of eastern Massachusetts
which lies near Cape Cod. The
boys Of this region afford the
wet, peaty soil which the cran-
berry loves. Wareham, on
Buzzard's Bay, is the center
of the Industry, and here is
the home of A. D. Makepeace,
who is called the Cranberry
Kink." Mr.. Makepeaceo owns
some 700 acres of boys, in the
towns of Wareham and Car
yer. He is about seventy
years old, and has spent forty
years of his life in cranberry
cultivation.
Another noteworthy raiser
of cranberries is George R.
Briggs, brother of DR.. lie Bar
on r. Briggs, dean of Harvard
University. George Briggs
was himself on the staff of in
structors of Harvard for many
years. His boys are situated
mostly in the town of Ply
mouth.
The cranberry crop of Mas
sachusetts last year WIS esti-
mated at 200, 900 barrels, which
at the average price of S4.75
a barrel, represented value
of nearly 100000. This
years crop will fall below
that of 1901, it is thought, by
about 10000 barrels. Other
sources of the red berry are
in New Jersey, which in 1901
contributed 10000 barrels;
Michigan and Wisconsin, with
a joint output of about $4,000
barrels; Oregon, Washington,
Nova Scotia and a few other
places. Frosts and pests have
cut down the total crop this
year, and it is believed that
cranberries will cost a little
more than last year.
Harvesting cranberries in
a Massachusetts cranberry
bog, on a day late in Septem-
Der is a picturesque sight.
The work is done chiefly by
Portuguese. They are paid
at the rate of s cents for six
quarts, and they earn from
So to S. a day. They use
scoops for the most part in
gathering the berries, and
they pluck the clusters from
the vines without injuring
them to any practical extent
The scoops hurt the berry
much less than the hand would
for the fruit is SO perishablt
! that it would rot if bruised Oh
! squeezed by the picker's fin
gers. In some of the bog'
t tramps are almostexclusivel.
| employed, and the "hoboes'
} say that they find this a gooC
chance to layin alittle green.
The Gran berry season further
: more comes at IA time of tn,
: year when sleeping on parl
benches is not as Arcadian a
/ in the summer time.
Cedar swamps are usual,
chosen to convert into Gran
berry boys. After the vine
! are set out, it is three or fou
4 years before they bear fruit
About once in two years a lay
/; er or fine sand is sprinkle'
: over the Dogs, so that tn
D trailing shoots may take root
1 and the number of plants Wi
be thus increased. It is onl
the upright stems which bea
p fruit, and consequently, it
! most desirable to increas
their number by the san
treatment. New York Tril
/ une.
u letter. Salt-Isheam aud Eczcma.
T The intense itching and srnarting inc
dent to these diseases is instantly allay,
d by applying Chamberlain Eye al