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facts and figures which I have already presented, there 

 appears to be no special inducement, for the present at 

 least, to ascend unto the mountain tops, and blast out the 

 rocks, for the purpose of making a cranberry bed, and 

 plant vines in the gravel, while we can do tolerably 

 well with them in a good, soft foundation nearer home. 



To offset this Wisconsin story, it may not be out of 

 place to state that a celebrated grower in the Cape in- 

 formed the writer a short time ago, that he had a piece 

 of bog on the Cape, which in ] 884, paid him 237 1 /, per 

 cent ; but the yield in this latter case must be regarded 

 as exceptional. Nor would I have it understood that 

 such cases as I have cited above are the invariable rule. 

 It depends on the season, and on the care given the bog. 

 Sometimes the season is poor ; frosts or insects get the 

 best of the grower, and the bog does not "pan out" as 

 well as the owner could wish, or expect. But, taking one 

 year with another, and under good management, the 

 money put into cranberry bogs may be considered a tol- 

 erably safe investment. The market is not overstocked ; 

 only a limited area of this country, so far as known, is 

 suitable for the production of cranberries of superior ex- 

 cellence ; and the exportation will be every year on the 

 increase. With these facts to enlighten us, we may go 

 on for an indefinite period, or until all the available bog 

 is taken up, with the assurance that the market will ex- 

 pand as fast as the production increases. 



