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" Comparatively few sizable bogs have come into bearing 

 the last year or two, crop and market conditions not favorable 

 to any rapid extension, although enough new territory is being 

 developed to probably more than offset loss in other direc- 

 tions. The west, notably Wisconsin and Michigan, are show- 

 ing renewed interest in cranberry growing, yet they furnish 

 only a small percentage of total supply. The Wisconsin cran- 

 berry section is confined to the neighborhood of Greenlake 

 and Wood counties, and eastward to Green Bay and Lake 

 Michigan. The heavy counties in Massachusetts are Plym- 

 outh and Barnstable, with considerable attention given the 

 industry in Middlesex, Norfolk, and Bristol counties. Rhode 

 Island and Connecticut raise a few cranberries, and there is a 

 small acreage across the Sound in Long Island. The Massa- 

 chusetts state census for 1895, issued at the close of 1897, 

 points to a remarkable increase in the production of cran- 

 berries in Plymouth County, placing the yield at 104,192 

 barrels against only 14,308 ten years earlier, in 1885. The 

 Massachusetts crop of 1895 is reported at 169,583 barrels, with 

 a value of $1,038,712. The leading counties of New Jersey 

 are Burlington, Atlantic, Ocean, Monmouth, and Camden, 

 although a number of others turn off a good many berries in 

 the aggregate. 



" An average crop of cranberries is about 600,000 bushels, 

 more than half of this being found in New England, and most 

 of the remainder in New Jersey. The crop of 1897 was short 

 and one of the smallest in years, approximating 425,000 

 bushels against 560,000 in 1896 and 640,000 bushels in 1895. 

 The weather in the spring of 1897 was unfavorable, the crop 

 developed poorly, and was eventually damaged by blight, 

 scald, and insects. Prices one year with another are governed 

 to some extent by the supply of other fruit, notably apples. 

 A short crop of the latter in 1897 stimulated the demand for 

 cranberries; the enormous apple yield of 1896, with attendant 

 phenomenally low prices, hurt the sale of the acid fruit that 

 year. Extended missionary work is still necessary before 

 American consumers will regard cranberries as a staple article 

 of food rather than a luxury." 



