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spared for the production of another crop. To farmers in some 

 situations, cranberry growing would be a far more profitable 

 business than any other they could follow. But if it were 

 only equally profitable, it must still be advantageous to 

 pursue it. 



The more varied our branches of successful industry may 

 be, the more self-reliant we are, and the more independent of 

 fluctuations in business, and even national changes, we be- 

 come. The theme is exhaustless, and I will not pursue it 

 farther. Yankee shrewdness and enterprise now buys cargoes 

 of foreign productions with the mere frozen water of our frigid 

 winter clime — Yankee intelligence and industry may yet sell 

 fine summer productions of marsh water and sun-light for 

 many pounds of foreign silver and gold. May the pioneers 

 reap their proper reward. 



