38 CAPE COD CEAN"BEREIES. 



THE SANTUIT BOG. 



The Santuit bog, of about two and a half acres, on the 

 margin of the Santuit Pond, cost $l,l00 up to the time 

 when it was seven years old ; and when sold it had paid 

 $3,500 above all expenses. It was sold for $2,500 with- 

 out the crop, and I cleared $5,000 by the operation. This 

 was my first venture. The bog was made in 1877 and 

 sold in 1884: 



THE MINOMOSCOG BOG. 



This bog of five acres, cost $1,870. The Bog-house 

 cost $250 ; screens, etc., $300. It paid last year a divi- 

 dend of 101 per cent. We received for vines this spring 

 $758, We have at a low estimate 300 barrels of berrie^ 

 on the bog, worth $1,500 at least. 



THE JEHU'S POND BOG. 



This bog contains six and three-fourth acres, and cost 

 $375 per acre. In its third summer's growth, fifty-two 

 barrels were picked, which sold for twelve dollars and 

 fifty cents and thirteen dollars per barrel, and it paid 

 nearly fifteen per. cent on its first cost. The past year, 

 1885, was its year for bearing, and we gathered 563 bar- 

 rels, with the probability that the bog will pay sixty per 

 cent, this year. 



THE WINSLOW BOG. 



TIlis is near Cotuit, of nine acres, costing 13, 600. It 

 paid dividends, amounting to $14, 100 in eight years, from 

 1874 to 1882. 



THE NEWTOWN CO.'S BOG. 



This bog is sixteen acres in extent, and cost $6,800. 

 It was made in 1864-65 and 1866, and actually paid be- 

 tween 1867 and 1883, upwards of $45,600. It was man- 

 aged by Oapt. Samuel Nickerson, of Cotuit. This bog, 

 although now nearly twenty-one years old, looks almost 

 as well as it ever did. 



