SOME STATISTICS OF CEANBEERT CULTURE. 39 



THE QUOSHKET BOG. 



This paid thirty-fiye per cent last year, and left a bal- 

 ance in the treasury of $1,800. Some of the buildings 

 having burned down, this fund was reseryed for the pur- 

 pose of rebuilding them. 



A little four-acre piece, costing $3,000, in 1882 paid a 

 dividend of $2,300, or 115 per cent. 



Scores of cases could be cited of good paying-bogs. One 

 gentleman, heavily interested in bogs' in Carver and else- 

 where, had a two-yeat old piece in Carver that paid 

 twenty-five per cent, and another that paid him 230 per 

 cent in one year. This gentleman is well known, of un- 

 doubted veracity, and his name can be given to anyone 

 who desires. 



I will close the list by adducing one further instance, 

 of which I am personally cognizant, namely : 



THE ABAGAIL'S BROOK BOG. 



This is a bog of eleven and three-fourths acres. The 

 following are the figures for 1884. 



The receipts for 1884 were, gross $5,4S5.24 



ExpcDSes 1,973.87 



Dividend $3,511.37 



Paid seventy-two per cent of its cost. Number of 

 barrels picked, 509. 



Expenses in Detail. 

 Cost of weeding, digging canal and repairs to dam. $323.50 



Town of Mashpee tax. .-■••■• ■ • ■ - - ■ ^^.00 



Chas. L. Baxter, 200 boxes @ 26Jc per 100 53.00 



Do. 509 bbls @ 45 239.0o 



Carting 509 bbls. to depot 84-»d 



Cost of picking »f^»* 



" " screening :■..■ ■ ■. "°-°g 



Workmen's time during picking and screening i„n 



jjailg l-^o 



Use oi'iiorse, 11 days @ ^3.00 per day 23 00 



Writing account Ji'ff 



Care during the year ■ ""■" " 



Total «19^3.87 



