PEOFIT AND toss. 97 



Some, from a peculiar knowledge of what was required, 

 and others, move by good fortune than good management 

 in selecting a locality, have achieved brilliant results ; but 

 many have failed, and many are now entering the business 

 who will be disappointed. Did we herald the successes, 

 and pass the failures by unnoticed, we would not be doing 

 our whole duty ; yet the failures have not been without 

 causes, and the principal of these are ignorance and ea>^ 

 travagance. 



A N"ew York firm, operating through an agent, we are 

 told, spent twenty thousand dollars in preparing and 

 planting a cedar swamp bottom near Manchester; we 

 visited the tract in 1867, and to us it had the appearanct 

 of an entire failure. The trouble seemed to lie in the 

 sand used in its preparation, iron ore being abundant in 

 the vicinity. There are, however, some valuable mea- 

 dows in the neighborhood of Manchester. 



Perhaps one of the most successful meadows in this 

 State is a " little pond " in Burlington Co., containing 

 twelve acres. It has been planted some ten years, and 

 we understand that the original cost of " putting it out " 

 did not exceed five hundred dollars. In 1869, we saw 

 upon a spur of this pond a patch of vigorous vines which 

 had been in existence at least thirty years, and the pro- 

 prietor informed us that he bad never gathered from them, 

 at one picking, less than one bushel and a half per square 

 rod, and sometimes they yielded two bushels per square 

 rod. 



In another instance, one square rod of the best vines in 

 this meadow was staked oflF, a line drawn around it, and 

 the berries carefully picked ; whereupon it was found to 

 yield "six bushels and two quarts, or at the rate of nine 

 hundred and seventy bushels per acre. In 1868, three 

 acres jof this meadow yielded an average of three hund- 

 red bushels per acre, and one acre produced a net income 

 of $1,800. It is said that $20,000 have been refused for 

 S 



