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year yielded seventy barrels the 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 will 

 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. MYEICK. 



PROVINCETOWN, December 12th, 1855 



The following letter, cut from the Journal of Cvm 

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



