126 BOAED OF AGEICULTUKE. [Jan. 



received with favor in Europe. They neither know how to 

 cook it there nor care to eat it, and therefore we have no 

 export demand for this fruit. There was a stock company of 

 cranbeny growers formed to export and introduce the fruit, 

 and create a demand for it. An agent was sent out to show 

 how to cook it in the various ways, and to furnish the hotels 

 with the sauce properly prepared to excite the palate and 

 induce a call for it ; but I think it was a failure and was 

 abandoned. Therefore, as we learned to our sorrow one 

 recent year, we find no export demand to relieve the market ; 

 and our only recourse for an over-supply is the " dumps," 

 and in such a case the sympathy between the cranberry 

 grower and his fruit is marked, if not gratifying. This fact 

 certainl}^ should have place in our calculations at this point. 



"The cranberry business," says White, "is no longer 

 looked upon as speculative. It now takes its place as an 

 industry that will make good returns for well-bestowed 

 labor ; but, like any other business, to be pursued profitably, 

 it must be conducted on right principles, and with strict 

 attention to details. Some, from a peculiar knowledge of 

 what was required, and others more by a good fortune than 

 good management in selecting a locality, have achieved 

 brilliant results ; but many have failed, and many are now 

 entering the business who will be disappointed." 



If this was the case, then, when the price of the berries 

 was from nine to twelve dollars per barrel, it cannot be more 

 favorable when from five to seven dollars is a good price per 

 barrel delivered in market. It would not be fair to deter- 

 mine the profits of this culture by the very unsatisfactor}^ 

 year just passed, or by the present unsatisfactory prices of 

 the market, — the result of the condition of the fruit, caused 

 by the frosts so extensive and destructive ; the attempt to 

 save berries and reduce the loss has in many instances re- 

 sulted in the greater loss to the individual producer himself, 

 and certainly to the great body of producers. Under the 

 favorable conditions of the Cape, good bogs with sufiicient 

 water supply will usually be very remunerative. The con- 

 ditions are more favorable than in the interior ; the grasses 

 are not so persistent and aggressive ;• the frosts are not so 

 late in the spring or early in the fall. They can pick the 



