1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
571 
New Jersey Highway. 
Double Dower Needed 
Haul this Load. 
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with the inhabitants of those cities and villages, seeing 
life go by only as a spectator of the festivities of their 
society, and congratulating himself that he is its basis 
and support; in other words that, while he doesn’t 
dance, he pays the fiddler? 
Let him rest content with what is set before him. 
asking no questions for conscience sake, blihding him¬ 
self as much as possible to certain questions and logi¬ 
cal deductions. Why should he rudely ruftie the peace¬ 
ful serenity of prosperous people, the seraphic agri¬ 
cultural “ professors ”—as numerous of late as South¬ 
ern colonels— 
by incredulous 
and cynical re¬ 
marks, or dis¬ 
quiet the politi¬ 
cal parties by 
dissatisfied 
murmurings at 
the good old 
issues that have 
done duty for 
25 years or 
more ? Virtue 
is its own re¬ 
ward ! Why ask 
any other and 
seek, by follow¬ 
ing “business 
principles ” and 
“ business 
methods,” to 
limit produc¬ 
tion, fix prices, 
or suppress in¬ 
formation for 
his own bene¬ 
fit? And, in¬ 
deed, this free 
and open prac¬ 
tice of the farm¬ 
ers is ideal, 
quite so! For 
is not the labor of the human family divided among 
its members ? Once it was all a part of the farm work 
and life. Hut certain of the “ sons”—not necessarily 
because “smarter” than the rest, but because some 
one was needed (theoretically) said to the farmers : 
“ You support us with food while we go and see what 
progress we cun make in manufactures, transportation, 
art, science, etc., and thus all working, though in 
distinct fields, we shall all alike share the progress 
of each.” So certain of the arts of the original farm 
work—the care of health, the making up of the wool, 
the hides, the cotton, etc., into clothing, and, of late, 
even the con¬ 
verting of the 
cream into but¬ 
ter—have been 
specialized; but 
all are supposed 
to be working 
for the benefit 
of the whole. 
The farmer, 
then, in giving 
his results 
freely to the 
world is but 
k ee ping his 
side of this 
unwritten bar¬ 
gain, and if 
farmers suffer 
any disadvan¬ 
tage, is it not 
because others 
are not keeping 
their side ? Has 
it not come 
about in this 
letting out of 
original farm 
work to special 
workmen that 
we are support¬ 
ing many while 
they work mostly for others, or merely for themselves; 
idlers who never work at all, drawing “ interest,” etc., 
as leeches draw blood, are we not supporting, and 
nearly all in far better fashion than we can afford to 
live ourselves ? 
Following precedent, then, and not presuming to 
“ kick further against the pricks ” of universal prac¬ 
tice (among farmers), allow me to call attention to a 
certain somewhat important business opening in a 
branch of farming in which I have had a brief expe¬ 
rience and, thus far, some success. I refer to the busi¬ 
ness of furnishing lambs from home pastures directly 
to consumers, fresh-killed the day they are delivered, 
at marketmen’s prices, saving their profits to the 
farmer and the best flavors to the consumer. It will 
be an attempt chiefly to teach not how to overpro¬ 
duce, but how to sell at a decent profit, a. wetmore. 
(To be continued.) 
AMERICAN CRANBERRIES FOR EUROPE. 
HOW TO INTRODUCE THEM ABROAD. 
August 8 was the day set for the August meeting of 
the cranberry men of Wisconsin. It was held at the 
marsh of A. C. Hennett & Son, about 10 miles west of 
Centralia. A. J. Rides, Secretary of the New Jersey 
Cranberry Growers’ Association, gave some of bis 
experience in cranberry growing. By keeping his 
berries in cold storage he succeeded in getting good 
prices after Cape Cod and Wisconsin berries had been 
disposed of. Too much effort was being made to 
increase the crop without enough effort to increase 
the market. He advanced the idea that it would pay 
to buy up the surplus of the crop and dispose of it in 
some way, so as to advance the price of the rest. He 
also advocated a united effort of all growers to extend 
at paying prices in this country, and if 20,000 bushels 
could be shipped abroad the rest would bri -, g more 
money than the entire crop would if all were placed 
on the market at home. The largest crop ever pro¬ 
duced was about 750,000 bushels. 
Mr. Emulous Small of Massachusetts also advocated 
the plan of introducing cranberries in Europe and said 
that the increase in acreage indicated that in three 
years the crop of the country will be doubled and an 
extension of the market seems to be a necessity. 
Mr. J. A. Gaynor of Grand Rapids, said that he had 
been to work 
on a different 
plan and that 
his notion was 
to reduce the 
cost of produc¬ 
tion so as to 
make the fruit 
cheaper to the 
consumer, and 
his impression 
was that this 
country is the 
greatest fruit 
consumer in the 
world and 
when cranber¬ 
ries come down 
to a point 
where they can 
compete with 
apples, which 
are a standard 
fruit, the mar¬ 
ket will be 
greatly enlarg¬ 
ed. One barrel 
of cranberries 
is equal to two 
of apples in 
fruit acid, 
which is the ar- 
Ile thought that if we 
cut off or decrease the 
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the market, especially in Europe. He thought it not 
best to extend production: London alone will consume 
more berries than Wisconsin produces if the people 
over there only learned how to eat them. He then 
explained the plan of the Fruit Growers’ Trade Com¬ 
pany, which gives shares of stock in it in exchange 
for berries, each producer agreeing to furnish three 
per cent of his crop to the company to be used in Eng¬ 
land to build up a trade, and take stock in the company 
in exchange for his berries. It will take 7,000 bushels 
of fruit to furnish one bushel to each greengrocer in 
London. With a good crop in Wisconsin, New Jersey 
and Massachusetts, it is impossible to secure a market 
tide for which fruit is used, 
raised the price we would 
home demand by preventing poor people who would 
not be able to buy at the increased price, from getting 
a supply. Mr. Ryder said that when prices are high, the 
fruit sells more quickly than if they are low. Mr. Gay¬ 
nor thought this rule was reversed in this locality. 
Mr. Small said that when prices were low the growers 
did not take pains in picking and putting them up and 
they would not sell like fruit well put up, and for that 
reason prices went still lower, thus showing how much 
better it is to put all fruits or farm products up in the 
best possible 
manner. 
The acreage 
all over the 
country is in¬ 
creasing very 
fast and land 
suitable to the 
crop is being 
rapidly planted 
Mr. Bennett 
advised experi¬ 
ment i n g in 
growing new 
kinds from the 
seed. He has 
several very 
promising va¬ 
rieties of seed¬ 
lings now six 
years old. The 
reports show 
prospects of an 
average crop 
i n Massachu¬ 
setts and New 
Jersey, and 
about two- 
thirds of a crop 
i n Wisconsin. 
The long - con¬ 
tinued drought 
August 6 have 
of 
and the frost on the morning 
cut down the prospects from a very high point a 
few weeks ago, and if we don’t get heavy rains very 
soon there will be a still severer cut. The marshes 
are getting drier every day, and many ditches are 
perfectly dry, and the berries are suffering badly for 
lack of water. One can easily walk from end to 
end of many of the marshes to-day without getting 
wet feet. ____ s. read. 
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