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from 100:to 200,000 plants on the most favorable terms,” etc. This 
was nearly at the end of the delusion. The subject died away grad- 
ually and for a number of years has not been heard of. It has eyi- 
dently taken its place with the Multicaun’s speculation and others of 
that sort. Of the probable cause of the failure, the public has never 
been informed, but we conjecture that the cranberry worm had some- 
thing to do with it. This worm does not usually appear in any 
neighborhood until several years after the cranberry has been intro- 
duced, but when they come, no plots in the neighborhood will be ex- 
empt from their ravages. Flowing is the only remedy—and where 
this is impossible, the best producing bog ever made will be compar- 
atively worthless. We think this the obvious reason why the upland 
culture was abandoned. Mr. Bates and the newspapers which ad- 
vertised the plants, and perhaps the nurserymen, made a good thing 
out of it, but the poor farmers who were deluded into spending time, 
money and land in the operation, were severe losers. 
Another venture in cranberry raising was made by Mr. Addison 
Flint, of North Reading, Mass. 
In 18438 he flowed a natural meadow to kill bushes and grass, keep- 
ing the water on for three years. After the water was drawn off and 
the surface dried it was burned over to get rid of the refuse vegeta- 
ble matter. He next removed sods from a cranberry marsh to this 
spot, planting them three and a half feet apart each way. On about 
half an acre he planted berries the same distance apart, crushing the 
berries and covering slightly with mud. This was done in October. 
The spring following, a number of bushels of decayed cranberries 
were sown broadcast over the spot. From planting, very few vines 
appeared for two or three years, and no fruit for five years. From 
thet portion set with sods, in three years, 17 bushels were harvested ; 
the fourth year 28 bushels; the fifth year 93 bushels; the sixth year 
150 bushels. The sixth year the planted vines yielded 40 bushels. 
This was then considered successful fruit culture, worthy of a pre- 
mium from a county society. 
Mr. Flint, in writing up the subject in 1864, says: “I have no 
doubt but there is swamp land enough in Massachusetts suitable for 
raising cranberries, to raise enough, at the prices they have brought 
for the two last years, to come to more than all the corn, grain and 
apples, raised in Massachusetts.” 
Mr. Flint’s brilliant success was so terribly eclipsed, however, by 
other cultivators, that his methods were not followed, and of late 
years but little heard of. His methods have the virture of involving 
but little expense, and the results would commend the methods had 
not others given manifold greater results. The extensive swamp 
lands of which he spoke remain to this day in the same condition 
they were in then. One remark of his, however, is worthy to be 
transcribed and kept prominently before the public, viz. : 
‘If I had ten acres and you had ten acres, and every man between 
Boston and New York and Boston and the Canada line, had ten acres 
each, and they all bore 300 bushels to the acre, it would not glut the 
market. 
‘* Very few of the inhabitants of cities have yet begun to geta 
taste of cranberries.” 
