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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



to the lierfection of the fruit, from the fact that the best cran- 

 berries are grown nearest the sea. The experience of culti- 

 vators, too, confirms the supposition. 



We recommend further trial of the upland culture of the 

 cranberry, because we believe it to be perfectly practicable, and 

 that multiplied experiments may bring to light advantages in 

 it sufficient to give it claims to more general regard, if not to 

 precedence over any other. Among the products of the garden, 

 few would be more desirable, or more easily cultivated and pro- 

 tected from frost, or supplied with moisture. And the value 

 of it, in this regard, should commend it to more general attention. 



Considering the uncertainty of the crop, in consequence of 

 the frosts and freshets, we think that meadows may be more 

 profitably devoted to the growing of grass, unless cranberries 

 are already growing naturally there, and the right and the 

 means of controlling a neighboring stream of Avater belong to 

 the cultivator. 



From the volume recently prepared and published by the Sec- 

 retary of the Commonwealth, on the Industry of Massachusetts, 

 we have gathered the following facts in relation to the cultiva- 

 tion of cranberries. 



ABSTRACT 

 Of the quantities of Land on which Cranberries were grown in the 

 several Counties of the State, in 1854 ; the value of the ivhole Crop; 

 the average value of it per acre; and the value of the Land per acre. 



Counties. 



Acres 



Value of Crop. 



Val. of Crop 

 per Acre. 



Value of Land 

 per Acre. 



Barnstable, . 



Berkshire. No returns 



Bristol, 



Dukes, 



Essex, . 



Franklin, 



Hampden, . 



Hampshire, . 



Middlesex, . . 



Nantucket, . 



Norfolk, 



Plymouth, . 



Suffolk. No returns. 



Worcester, . 



Total and Aggregate, 



197 



380 



14 



370 



13^ 



9 .- 



,551f 

 19.1 



807 

 36U 



6414 



316,916 00 $85 86 §50 .00 to i$470 00 



12,282 00 



1,296 00 



8,488 00 



505 00 



439 



40 



29,274 



'1,140 



30,000 00 



12,098 00 



09 

 00 

 00 

 00 



22,720 00 



32 32 

 92 54 

 22 94 

 55 34 



32 51 

 8 00 



11 46 

 57 72 

 37 17 



33 46 



15 00 to 

 27 00 to 



2 00 to 

 40 00 to 

 20 00 to 



16 00 



2 00 to 

 18 00 

 20 00 to 

 10 00 to 



90 00 



142 00 



125 00 



60 00 



100 00 



253 00 



60 00 



250 00 



35 43 i 5 00 to 60 00 



5,372i I i§135,198 00 §25 17 §2 00 to §170 00 



