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year yielded seventy barrels — tlie next year fifteen 

 barrels— and the next, or the last year, eighty barrels. 

 The springs were very low the last year, and the 

 berries suffered, otherwise I think he would have 

 doubled the quantity. He has kept most of them, and 

 has had offered $16 per barrel, in New York. You ^vill 

 agree with me in supposing that low as it is, $1280 is 

 not a small income from so small a field. 



In Mr. Lathrop's absence I make these statements* 

 Perhaps hereafter he will favor you with other and 

 more interesting. I have, however, been familiar with 

 all his management, and am personally interested in 

 the cranberry culture. I have recently bought one- 

 sixth of a cranberry swamp, where the company have 

 built a house, and employed a man by the year in 

 bringing it to cranberry vines. . I also own another 

 lot, where at much less expense I hope to bring a large 

 lot into cranberry land. 



There are companies, like that with which I am con- 

 nected, formed, and they have brought swamp into 

 vines at a cost from $200 to $400 per acre. 



Yours truly. 0. Myrick. 



Provincetown, December 12thj 1855 



The following letter, cut fix)m the Journal of Com- 

 merce^ which was communicated by Mr. Bagley, will be 



