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marked success. They are growing and marketing the ber- 

 ries at $5 less per barrel than others, and are making a large 

 percentage of profit. Their plantations arc caretuUj 

 attended to ; the water is drawn oil' in tlie spring, and 

 the weeds are taken care of; the insects are taken care of 

 and destroyed either by flooding or spra3dng ; the fruit is 

 liarvested and taken to the market in good condition, 

 always of good quality, and it brings a good price. Those 

 who do not make the culture of cranberries their sole 

 Industry are favored by marketing the fruit and selling 

 it before it leaves the shipping points on the Cape at |1,500 

 and $1,000 per car. There is always some profit when they 

 sell at these figures, and they are the men who are going 

 to keep up our cranberry industry. 



Mr. John G. Avery (of Spencer). In the town where 

 I live and in the adjoining town there is considerable 

 money invested in cranberry bogs. Those who are inter- 

 ested furnish men who do this work through the season. 

 One man has returned, and he was telling me only a few 

 days ago of the great success he had met with. I won't 

 undertake to tell how many acres there are in that cran- 

 berry section. 



Dr. J. B. LiNDSEV (of Amherst). There is one point I 

 do not think has been dwelt upon quite enough, and that 

 is, the importance of growing special apples here in western 

 Massachusetts. We hear a great deal about the abandoned 

 farms in this section, and it has always seemed to me there 

 M'as a splendid opportunity for those who have enterprise 

 and push to devote a considerable portion of this land to 

 the growth of apples and peaches. I believe dairying, 

 poultry culture and apple and peach growing could be 

 made much more successful, if there was a little more in- 

 terest ; and it seems to me that Pi-ofessor AVaugh might 

 drive home the nail by drawing attention to the advantage 

 of growing apples and peaches on these farms in western 

 Massachusetts. 



Mr. H. A. Turner (of Norwell). Maine, New Hamp- 

 shire and Vermont are said to be ahead of us in apple 

 growing. In Plymouth County I hear there is a failure 



