SOME STATISTICS OF CBANBEERT CULTURE. 37 



CHAPTER X. 

 SOME STATISTICS OF CRANBERRY CULTURE. 



Fifty barrels of cranberries per acre is a fair yield ; but 

 I have picked two hundred and nineteen barrels on two 

 acres, besides the wasted and poor berries, and sixty bar- 

 rels of fruit was left upon the bog. One barrel, one 

 bushel and six quarts, or one barrel and one-third, has 

 been picked from a single square rod. 



The cost of picking the berries is from one dollar and 

 sixty cents to two dollars per barrel of thirty-two quarts. 

 The cost of screening is not less than twenty-five cents 

 per barrel, on the average. The cost varies from fifteen 

 cents to to one dollar and a half, according to condition. 

 If perfectly sound, they can be run off for twenty-five 

 cents, on the average. The cost of the barrels is forty- 

 five cents each. The cost of getting the berries from the 

 bogs to the railroad station would average about seven- 

 teen cents per barrel. The freight to Boston or Provi- 

 dence is twenty cents ; to New York forty cents per 

 barrel. The broker's commission for selling is five per 

 cent. The average cost of taking care of a bog is ten 

 dollars per acre, taxes included. The average cost of a 

 barrel of cranberries is three dollars and seventy-five 

 cents, including all expenses ; so that, calling the orig- 

 inal cost of a bog $425 per acre, and allowing that it pro- 

 duces fifty barrels per acre, at eleven dollars and fifty 

 cents per barrel (last year's average price, delivered at the 

 city), the profit per acre would be ninety-one per cent, 

 or $387.50. 



Below will be found appended the statistics of a few 

 bogs that have come under my notice, and I will finish 

 this treatise by inviting attention to the same. 



