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All these wild lands are consequently unsalable, 

 and are worth from two to five dollars per acre. 

 They have been in market at these prices for many 

 years. Some of them are covered with small pines 

 and scrub oak, the latter growing up wherever the 

 former have been cut off for the use of iron furnaces 

 or glass works. Large districts of them are within 

 a few miles of a railroad, on which two hours travel 

 will convey you to Philadelphia, and three more to 

 New York. But they lie on no public thoroughfare, 

 and hence they have remained unnoticed and neg 

 lected. No good roads penetrate them, hence there 

 are no travellers, and hence the distant public knows 

 but little of their capabilities. 



Seven years ago an enterprising farmer of Bur 

 lington county purchased a hundred acres of this 

 swamp land, for which he paid 5 per acre. All 

 the adjoining land was in market at the same price, 

 a third or a half to be paid down. Much of his 

 purchase was grown up with cranberries. His de 

 sign was to give them some general attention that 

 would cost but little money, and if found to pay, 

 then to bestow more care upon them, and eventually 

 to convert the whole tract into a carefully cultivated 

 cranberry plantation. He conciliated, to some ex 

 tent, the jealousies of the neighboring sand-hillers 

 by employing them to cut brush sufficient to con 

 struct a fence around the portion to be protected, 

 so as to keep off the hogs and cattle which roamed 

 the woods, rooting up or trampling down the plants. 



This slight protection of a brush fence, costing 

 but little, produced the best results. The plants 



