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satisfied with his experiment that he advised his sons, Alex- 

 ander, Edward and myself, to extend the culture of this va- 

 riety largely. We entered into the business, and, pursuing 

 it with diligence, were well compensated. Our success made 

 others desirous of engaging in it, and so it spread out into 

 its large dimensions." Mr. Alexander Young estimates 

 that in the year 1858 1,000,000 pint baskets, or about 

 14,700 bushels, were shipped from Marlboro'; but adds 

 that "since i860 it has decreased as fast. From present 

 appearances, the variety must become extinct, and I fear 

 will never have its equal." Milton, Cornwall, Newburgh, 

 and other points competed in the profitable industry, and 

 now, with Marlboro', are replacing the failing variety with 

 other kinds more vigorous in growth, but thus far inferior 

 in quality. 



That the great industry is not falling off is shown by the 

 following statement, taken from the New York " Tribune " 

 in the summer of 1879 : ''The village of Highland, oppo- 

 site Poughkeepsie, runs a berry boat daily to New York, 

 and the large night steamers are now taking out immense 

 loads of raspberries from the river towns every evening, 

 having at times nearly 2,000 bushels on board." 



From as careful a computation as I have been able to 

 make, through the courtesy of the officers of the large 

 Kingston boats, the " Baldwin " and " Cornell," I am led to 

 believe that these two steamers unitedly carried to the city 

 over twenty thousand bushels of berries that same year. 

 The magnitude of this industry on the Hudson will be 

 still better realized when it is remembered that several 

 other freight boats divide this traffic with the Kingston 

 steamers. 



When we consider what a delicate and perishable fruit 

 this is, it can be understood that gathering and packing it 



