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It was remarked that these reports, if numerous enough, and well enough 

 distributed to insure a fair average, would indicate a crop on the vines of more 

 than 750.000 bushels. 



But after giving a summary of correspondence, the report assumed that the 

 definite figures were too few, or too unevenly located to be relied upon, and con- 

 cluded the crop estimate as follows: 



Bushels. 



New Jersey 175,000 



New England 225,000 



Wisconsin 150,000 



Other Western States 10,000 



Total 560,000 



Or, say 60,000 bushels more than the largest crop before recorded. 



Official inquiries were again sent out on the 14th Oct., 1885, asking state- 

 ment of actual crops of 1884 and 1885. The table giving the number of re- 

 ports, details of the calculation, as published in the Cranberry Bulletin of 

 Oct. 31, 1885, is here iuserted: 



TABLE COMPARING AND CALCULATING THE CRANBERRY CROP OF 1885 IN BUSHELS. 



The result, making the crop of the country appear to be 963,817 bushels, 

 more than confirmed the indications of the figures referred to, and in a meas- 

 ure discredited in the August reports. But the amount seemed so surprising, 

 that the Statistician remarked in the Bulletin that he was not yet fully con- 

 vinced that the crop could reach such high figures. 



At the annual meeting, in January last, the movement of the crop to Jan- 

 uary 1, 1886, so far as reported to the Statistician, by railroads, was 504,747 

 bushels; and the estimated movement not yet covered by these railroad reports, 

 was 120,074 bushels, making, to January 1, 624,821, or about two-thirds of the 

 October crop est mated. 



The crops of the last three seasons, as finally determined by their move- 

 ment, were as follows : 



