December, 1916 WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 55 
THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 12-13-14 
Cranberry Jelly 
(Continued from page 51) 
sugar and water are all the in- 
gredients necessary and all that 
should be used in any case. As 
an expedient for using up un- 
sound fruit, it would not prove a 
success, as has been demonstrat- 
ed by past experiments, but if 
good quality fruit be used the 
product should prove popular 
and have a ready sale. 
There is an astonishingly large 
business carried on in the mak- 
ing of jellies and marmalades. 
Some of the large manufacturers 
have used cranberries with good 
results, but no exclusive cran- 
berry jelly plant of any size has 
ever been established to our 
knowledge. In order to be a 
success, it would probably be 
necessary to put up other fruits 
in connection with it to keep 
the plant running through the 
year, and in this connection we 
call attention to the success of 
local individuals who have estab- 
lished quite large businesses by 
selling “home-made” products 
of this kind. We have in mind 
one in particular, who puts up 
over seventy-five varieties of 
jellies, marmalades, preserves, 
pickles, etc., and finds a ready 
sale to the retail trade without 
advertising of any kind. The 
reputation behind the goods 
brings in mail orders to the 
capacity of the establishment, 
which has become known wholly 
through customers who have 
called the attention of their 
friends to it. 
The commercial value of the 
phrase “made on Cape Cod from 
native fruits” is great and com- 
mands attention among house- 
keepers. The summer people 
carry away large quantities when 
they leave the Cape in the fall, 
and mail orders rapidly deplete 
the stock. 
We know of another person 
who is experimenting with cran- 
berries in this way, who, by put- 
ting up apple and grape jellies 
and marmalades, which are sold 
to the wholesale trade, and thus 
establishing a reputation for his 
brand, expects to be able to sell 
great quantities of cranberry 
jelly when he puts it on the mar- 
ket. 
Cranberry growers should seek 
out and encourage such persons 
who are trying to develop a de- 
mand for cranberries other than 
in their raw state, as success will 
mean an added market and con- 
sequently better prices. 
Relating to Fraudulent 
Exhibits 
The following item from the 
Rural New Yorker of Nov. 11th 
came in the mail to the editor 
recently. The clipping was en- 
closed in a sealed envelope with 
nothing to indicate the name or 
purpose of the sender. While it 
is contrary to the principles and 
practices of editors to encourage 
anonymous correspondents, an 
exception is made in this case 
as the subject matter of the 
clipping is timely. 
“Any exhibitor who enters as 
his own, fruit grown by another 
will be debarred from all pre- 
miums.” 
“That statement heads the 
premium list of the New Jersey 
Horticultural Society, and it 
should be enforced at every fruit 
show by promptly firing anyone 
who tries to win prizes with 
“hired goods.” There has been 
too much work by “ringers” who 
buy up fine specimens of fruit 
or of stock and travel from one 
fair to another capturing the 
prizes. The managers of shows 
where prizes are offered should 
go after such people with a club. 
They discourage the actual grow- 
ers and especially the young 
people who are most important 
to any society. When these 
young growers see “ringers” 
coming in with fruit which only 
represents money they rightly 
conclude there is little use com- 
peting with a skin game and a 
jockey shop, and they give up 
exhibiting. That is the worst 
thing that can happen to a fair 
or a horticultural society, for 
above all things such an exhibi- 
tion should be free, honest and 
useful. When a jockey comes in 
with purchased fruit and walks 
off with the prizes, fraud and 
discontent walk off with him. 
Our old friend Clark Allis dug 
out such a fraud at the fair in 
Batavia, N. Y. This fraud 
bought the fruit which he ex- 
hibited, and then had the face 
to swear that he produced it — 
when there was practically no 
fruit growing on his own place! 
That man should be shut out 
from all fruit shows, and sen- 
tenced to a long diet on Ben 
Davis apples. A fruit show 
should be a contest between 
men — not between dollars.” 
R. N. Y. 
Farmers’ Bulletin 750, De- 
partment of Agriculture, Wash- 
ington, D. C., is a thirty-six page 
bulletin on roses for the home. 
This may be obtained by writing 
to the Division of Publications, 
Washington, D. C. 
