The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-15

headquarters in Wareham. examining the bogs critically and making their offers before the fruit men of Boston and New York were aware what was going on. Their progressiveness Is in line with recent requirements. Last year nearly 300.000 barrels were more widely distributed than ever before, hundreds Lf carloads going everywhere The tendency Is more and more toward the naturalization of the berry.
 So that it is no wonder Cape Cod grows rich and prosperous and that every available acre of bog is being taken up, for no other region of the United States is suited by climate for production of the berries on a large scale. Not every land owner can get into this industry without outside help. Large capital is needed to develop a cranberry property but once 1t has begun to bear the returns are sure, given the three essentials of peat, sand and howage. The cranberry vicissitudes of nature than almost any body else in the world. crop on a properly constructed bog cannot be de- stroyed either by frost or by worms if intelligent care is used, for when the danger of either occurs the watchful manager has only to turn the water from the reservoir into the meadow
 
 their own salvation.
 This is, in fact, one of the most sur prising features of the industry the scientific precision with which it has been developed. There are cranberry meadows in some districts where the vines are allowed to take care of them selves. subject only to natural howage and exposed to the September frosts. Not so on Cape Cod On such a prop a of iry pany which has under construction at North DuXbury the largest bog under a single 11owage in the world, on any September evening when the approach of frost is suspected. the manager opens the gates of the three great res ervors of 40. % and 25 acres respec- lively, where millions of gallons of water are held at levels a few feet above the meadows, and rapidly floods the dikes until the water. warmer than the air, percolating among the roots. causes vapor to arise that enwraps the berries as in a protecting shroud. and keep them safe from the .nipping fingers of the frost king
 Nearly all the favorable locations for bogs in the Cape Cod region have al ready been taken up by enterprising Yankees. One sights the glow of the vines in every part of the land from NC" BeuIord or Boston around 10 tne sandy tip. Walking among the bush covered dunes behind Provincetown the tourist is surprised to find little half acre and acre bogs between skeltering hills
 Besides d stream of water for the winter and autumn inundations the pro- spective cranberry grower must dis cover generally level tract that has an underlying structure of peat or nl e.. N.l. R.Nn RAV the mud is apt to be too cold for the best growth of the plants. Ample sand-which Is not ordinarily difh- cult to find on the Cape--is another absolute necessity When the bog Is first constructed q layer from four to ten inches in depth is made. upon which the cuttings from older vines are forced down until their ends rest m the peat bed beneath. The sand holds the suns heat, and thus protects the vines against the coldness of the mass of peat It Is the custom every