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for receiving the cranberries. The next two floors are divided 
into 16 feet bins, 26 to each floor, holding about fifty bushels 
each when six inches deep on the floor. The lower story has 
a capacity for storing from 4000 to 5000 barrels, for which pur¬ 
pose it is used, and also for cleaning and barreling the berries. 
On the east end of the building outside, under a roof, is one of 
Rudy’s patent hoisting machines, with which one man power 
will raise a car load of berries to the top of the building. From 
the warehouse extending to the marsh, a track, made in sec¬ 
tions of 16 feet, is laid down, constructed of 2x4 scantling for 
rails laid upon inch boards, which can be easily changed to any 
part of the marsh required. The car, which holds about fifty 
bushels, is run to the vicinity of the pickers—the berries meas¬ 
ured into it, and when full is run to the warehouse, on to the 
platform to which the hoisting apparatus is attached. It is 
then hoisted to the third story and run to any part of the floor 
desired. The slides, one on each side, are opened and the ber¬ 
ries are discharged into the bins. From these bins they are 
spouted to the floors below; when they reach the second floor 
they are dry, and there remain until they have undergone the 
sweating process; from thence they pass to the lower floor and 
are cleaned by running through a fanning mill and, if necessary? 
are then assorted by hand. The barrels hold just three bush¬ 
els, and are thoroughly shaken down before heading up. It 
will be seen that Mr. Sackett has the means and appliances to 
put his fruit in perfect order before they go into market, and 
when they come into competition with eastern cranberries, as 
the saying is, the latter are nowhere. 
Prices, Products, Etc. —As the business of cranberry¬ 
growing increases and thousands of bushels are added to the 
annual product, the question very naturally arises, will not 
the supply, before many years, exceed the demand, and the ar¬ 
ticle become so low in price that it will not pay? I answer, 
that when the amount sold in our market was one thousand 
bushels or less, seventy-five cents per bushel was the going 
-price, and it seldom exceeded one dollar ; but as the quantit 3 r 
