The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-11-01

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reservoir into the meadow and there
by submerge the plants for 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
themselves, subject only to natural
flowage, and exposed to the Septem-
Der frosts. Not so on Cape Cod. On
such a property as that of big cram
berry company, which has under con-
struction at North DoXbury the lar
gest bog under a single howage in the
world, on any September evening
when the approach of frost is suspect
ed the manager opens the gates of the
twenty-three great reservoirs of forty,
thirty and twenty-five acres, respect
lively, where millions of gallons of
water are held at levels few feet
above the meadows, and rapidly floods
the bikes until the water, warmer than
the air, percolating among the roots,
causes a vapor to rise that enwraps
the berries as in a protecting shroud
and keeps them safe from the nipping
fingers of the frost king.
Nearly all the favorable locations
for bogs in the Cape Cod region have
already been taken up by enterprising
yankees. One sights the glow of the
vines in every part of the land from
New Bedford to Boston around to the
sandy tip. Walking among the bush
covered dunes behind Provincetown
the tourist is surprised to find little
half-acre and acre Dogs between shell
tering hills.
Besides stream of water for the
winter and autumn foundations the
prospective cranberry grower must
discover a generally level tract that
has an underlying structure of peat or
black mud, preferably the former,
since the mud is apt to be'too cold for
the best growth of the plants. Ample
sandwich is not ordinarily hard to
find on the Cape-is another absolute
necessity. When the bog is first con-
structed layer from four to ten inches
in depth is made, upon which the cut
tings from older vines are forced down
until their ends rest in the peat bed
beneath The sand holds the suns
heat and thus protects the vines
against the GOODNESS of the mass of
peat. 1t is the custom every two or
three years to "sand" bog.
Everywhere on the cape one hears
of the profita bleness of the industry
when it is scientifically conducted. A
bog must be one of the best paying
real estate investments in the country.
Thus an acre of bog in Plymouth
county yielded net profit of 1850. so.
A bog of So acres for thirteen cOnsec-
utive years yielded over 900 barrels
annually, and earned for it's owner
$40 day net profit during the entire
period; bog of eleven acres yielded
IS, 900 annually in 1901, 1902 and 1903;
a bog of ten acres paid for itself in
three years; a bog of forty-fve acres
paid for itself seven times in eighteen
years. a bog of sixteen acres yielded
p, 700 barrels, or 1874 barrels per acre,
in 1904, another of 120 acres yielded
104 barrels per acre the same year;
stockholders in another bog received
dividend of 31S her cent. in 1904;
stockholders in another have never
received annual dividends of less than
Is per cent. during past the eleven
years. These are said to be typical
instances.
Thousands of Barrels.