No. 4. 



CRANBERRY GROWING. 



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Production of Cranberries. 



This does not include cranberries not shipped over railroads and used for evaporating purposes. 



Cranberries are of course essentially a luxury, but they have 

 come into such general use, especially in connection with the 

 Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, that they may be looked 

 upon as a commodity approaching the importance of a necessity, 

 and up to the present time the widening of the market for them 

 has so kept pace with the increase in their production that 

 satisfactory prices almost always prevail for fruit in good con- 

 dition. For several years the fear that there may come a time 

 when the supply of cranberries will so exceed the demand as to 

 make them a drug on the market has been present in the minds 

 of many interested in the industry. While it must be admitted 

 that there is a possibility that such a condition may come to 

 pass, it must be borne in mind that there has not yet developed 

 any considerable export trade except that with Canada and 

 that the methods of disposing of the crop were very crude and 

 hit or miss until within the last three or four years. Moreover, 

 satisfactory methods for the preserving of this fruit have not 

 yet been developed, and our knowledge of the best means for 

 producing the fruit cheaply is probably in its infancy. It is to 

 be hoped and expected that the development of an export 



