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-Title: The cranberry
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-Author: Anonymous
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-            _BRADLEY FERTILIZER COMPANY’S PUBLICATIONS._
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-  lawn and a flourishing garden.
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-  THE CRANBERRY, Illustrated. Suggestions as to the preparation of
-  bogs and selection of berries, modes of cultivation, picking,
-  shipping, &c.
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-  Bradley Fertilizer Company, Boston, Mass.
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-                            The Cranberry
-
-    _PUBLISHED BY_
-  BRADLEY FERTILIZER CO.
-        BOSTON
-
-[Illustration: PICKING CRANBERRIES ON THE OLD COLONY CO.’S CRANBERRY
-BOG AT SOUTH YARMOUTH, MASS.]
-
-  WEST DENNIS, Mass., Oct. 19, 1891.
-
-  Having had the superintendency of preparing and setting to vines
-  what is called the “Old Colony cranberry bog,” which contains
-  about 25 acres, I have had occasion to use the different kinds of
-  commercial fertilizers sold on the market, and of them all I now
-  use the Bradley.
-
-  It has proved a great help in starting our new vines, giving them a
-  vigorous growth and bringing the bog into bearing much earlier than
-  would have been the case had Bradley’s fertilizer not been applied.
-
-  We think very highly of your fertilizer, and recommend its use
-  by cranberry-growers generally. The photograph you have of our
-  cranberry bog will give some idea of what we are doing.
-
-    REUBEN BAKER, _Sup’t._
-    R. A. BAKER, _Treas._
-
-
-           _Copyrighted by Bradley Fertiliser Co., 1892._
-
-
-
-
-                           The Cranberry.
-
-
-This book is not intended to be a scientific or elaborate treatise
-upon the Cranberry, but rather a book of practical suggestions, and
-a summary of helpful hints that may prove of benefit to those who
-undertake to grow this fruit.
-
-The methods of growing Cranberries vary with localities and growers,
-and are undoubtedly in an experimental state at the present time. The
-original Cranberry grower was the owner of some wild and uncultivated
-patch where, in a natural condition, the berries (receiving no
-attention until picking time) were gathered “at halves,” meeting
-little or no market beyond the limits of the locality in which they
-grew.
-
-The modern grower has found the application of improved methods of
-cultivation and fertilization to pay liberally with the Cranberry,
-as with every other crop, and it should be his endeavor, through all
-available methods, to reduce the cost of growing and increase the
-yield of berries per acre, giving special attention to such culture
-as may the better secure the _keeping quality_ of the fruit.
-
-In order to do this, the grower may have to lay aside his
-preconceived notions as to the best methods of growing and
-fertilization, and possibly even discard some which have in years
-past been approved by leading growers. By a careful selection of
-varieties best adapted to each particular locality, or frequently
-by a larger increase in the depth of sand upon the bog, and then by
-the greatest care in all that pertains to the picking and packing
-of the fruit, he will be enabled to maintain for the Cape berries a
-foremost reputation as “keepers” among those who handle this valuable
-crop. Too little attention has heretofore been paid to this essential
-feature, and quantity rather than quality has been sought. When
-secured, the berries, as a general thing, are hurriedly packed at the
-bog, usually warm from the vines, and so, oft-times, they are almost
-ruined before reaching a market. This practice is largely responsible
-for the prejudice of some dealers against Cape berries.
-
-Again, improved methods of cultivation by which an increased
-production, with improved quality, may be secured, are certainly
-desirable to every individual grower; though the present enormous
-crop would hardly seem to warrant a larger acreage, yet, at the same
-time, it behooves every grower to make as productive as possible (in
-view of the great expenditure) each acre already under cultivation.
-
-The matter here presented is the result of thorough investigation
-into the methods of cultivation as practised by the most successful
-growers, and we believe it presents facts to the grower which will
-prove well worthy of his careful attention.
-
-                                               BRADLEY FERTILIZER CO.
-
-
-
-
-                              THE BOG.
-
-
-It is popularly supposed that the Cranberry flourishes upon Cape
-Cod because of the salt sea sand of which the Cape is so largely
-composed. This theory, however, is erroneous, as it has been proved
-that even on Cape Cod the Cranberry will not flourish except under
-certain other favorable conditions.
-
-The first inquiry, then, is, What kind of land is preferable for a
-bog? The best growers select a laurel, maple, or cedar swamp, so
-situated that it can be easily flowed with water at any time when
-this may seem necessary. They select a swamp in preference to a
-meadow, because it is found in practice that a meadow always produces
-considerable coarse grass detrimental to the crop, which does not
-grow in the swamps.
-
-Again, it is proved that a swamp on which wood has grown has a better
-bottom than the average meadow, as it is largely composed of decayed
-foliage, which has for many years dropped from the trees, and has
-gradually become a rich, friable soil, usually free from either weeds
-or grass.
-
-Some growers believe that it is not essential to have the bog so
-situated that it can be covered by water; but, while there are some
-very fine dry Cranberry bogs of this description, if an early frost
-or the fire-worm strikes the crop at a vital time, it causes an
-entire failure, which could have been prevented had there been a
-chance of promptly flowing the bog.
-
-
-
-
-                        HOW TO PREPARE A BOG.
-
-
-The Cranberry bog is usually prepared in late fall, winter, or early
-spring, when the ground is partially frozen, as it is more easily
-cleared at this time, and cheaper labor is obtainable.
-
-The first step in preparing the bog is to mow off, with a bush
-scythe, all the small brush and undergrowth. We are then ready to
-get rid of the trees. Experience has proved that the cheaper way is
-to cut the roots of the large trees, and then by means of tackle,
-in case they do not fall by their own weight, pull them over to the
-ground. This saves many days’ labor, which would be necessary if the
-trees were cut down above the ground and the stumps then dug out.
-
-The refuse materials should be gathered into heaps, and, when dried,
-burned upon the bog; but great care is necessary in burning not to
-allow the moss and turf, of which the bog is composed, to get on
-fire; for when once fairly started, it is nearly impossible, except
-by flowing the bog, to extinguish the flames.
-
-These first steps in clearing the bog must be done in the best
-possible manner, preferably by day labor, under the direct care of
-a watchful foreman, as the ultimate success of the Cranberry bog
-depends very largely upon the thoroughness with which all of the tree
-and bush roots are removed.
-
-After the surface of the bog has been thoroughly cleaned off, it
-is cut into squares, about eighteen inches across, by means of a
-turf-axe, which is a thin, hatchet-shaped bladed implement, with a
-stout, hickory handle, about thirty inches long. This axe is utilized
-for cutting the tough, undergrowing roots, sure to be found just
-below the surface of the soil.
-
-The usual method is to cut across the bog in parallel lines eighteen
-inches apart, and again at right angles in parallel lines in the same
-manner, thus leaving the turf in square blocks about eighteen inches
-square. Two men with long-handled, four-pronged bog-hooks follow
-the cutters, pulling over the turf, which, after the ditching is
-finished, should be chopped up, and so rendered suitable for making
-the surface as smooth as possible, when the work of final grading is
-completed.
-
-We are now ready for ditching; the manner and methods necessary to
-secure the best possible drainage being subject, of course, to such
-varied conditions as to render it difficult to describe. But if there
-were but three essential features of special importance, two of them
-would be drainage.
-
-All of the ditches should be dug with flaring banks, so as to prevent
-caving in of the sides of the ditch, and thus making constant
-trouble. A ditch, in any case, around the entire bog is an essential
-feature in drainage, and to carry-off the cold surface water, as well
-as a preventive of much difficulty in cultivation, etc.
-
-If the ditches are thoroughly well made they will need but little
-repairing or cleaning, and here as elsewhere in preparing the bog the
-most careful attention on the part of the superintendent will prove
-the cheapest in the end.
-
-After the ditches are completed, the bog must be graded until it is
-as smooth and level as a lawn. In grading the bog the levels must
-be run in such a manner that it can be easily flooded with water,
-since sometimes it may be desirable to do this as expeditiously
-as possible, and the necessary arrangements to do this should be
-provided at this time.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-                                 NORTH HARWICH, MASS., Oct. 19, 1891.
-
-  I have been in the habit of using Bradley’s Fertilizer on my
-  cranberry bogs for a number of years, and consider it very
-  beneficial. It pushes the new vines along to a bearing condition
-  much earlier than would be the case if left to depend on the
-  natural strength of the soil, and by covering the ground quicker
-  with vines the grass and brush are not so likely to get a start.
-
-  It also does well on old vines, increasing the crop, and the size
-  and quality of the berry. Last spring, to my sorrow, I neglected to
-  apply this phosphate to my old bog, and on gathering my crop this
-  fall I found I had made a great mistake. Shall use it another year,
-  without fail.
-
-                                                       BENJ. F. HALL.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-                                   HARWICHPORT, MASS., Oct. 19, 1891.
-
-  I have used Bradley’s Fertilizer for growing cranberries, and find
-  it very beneficial. New vines come to bearing one year earlier by
-  its use, and grass and weeds are crowded out, and do not get the
-  foothold they are apt to where vines grow slowly, and are a long
-  while covering the ground.
-
-  Cranberry growers in this section are finding it greatly to their
-  interest to use Bradley’s Fertilizer on their bogs, both new and
-  old.
-
-  About the 1st of June, 1891, I put on 100 pounds of Bradley’s
-  Fertilizer on about 60 rods of late vines, set out 20 years ago. On
-  the other side of the ditch were 60 rods of vines, the same age,
-  both done by the same man; in other words, the same conditions
-  exactly, except the Fertilizer. This year I gathered both pieces.
-  The piece to which I applied 100 pounds of Fertilizer yielded 8
-  barrels of cranberries, the other, barely 1 barrel.
-
-                                                         E. B. ALLEN.
-
-
-
-
-                              THE DAM.
-
-
-A dam must be built at the lower end of the bog, in such a manner
-as seems necessary from the location and force of the water running
-through the main ditch. If the main ditch is a brook which carries
-a large amount of surplus water, the dam must be very strongly and
-thoroughly built; but if, on the other hand, it is simply a ditch
-filled by springs or small brooks found in the bog, a simple dam can
-be thrown up at slight cost; although care must be taken to make
-it strong enough, so that the high water in winter or spring will
-not carry it away and leave the vines unprotected from the frost.
-If the bog is of large size, and a large amount of water is needed,
-of course a larger and more substantial dam must be built. The
-accompanying illustration gives a section of a turf dam, preferably
-about fifteen feet wide at the bottom by ten feet at the top,
-constructed of turf, and sand or clay, in such a manner as to be
-absolutely safe.
-
-It will be seen that the walls slope from the foundation to the top,
-and are composed outside of layers of turf, so laid one upon the
-other that the joints are broken and a solid wall is made, between
-which is filled in a mass of stone, clay, and sand, thoroughly tamped
-down so as to make a firm structure in the centre of the dam. At the
-end of the main ditch should be constructed a water-course or flume,
-preferably of two-inch plank, with a waste-gate that can be raised or
-lowered as the supply of water may be needed or allowed to run to
-waste. This is simply made of plank, with an oak joist for a lever,
-which, used as a pry, easily opens the gate.
-
-
-
-
-                            THE SANDING.
-
-
-The sand used on a Cranberry bog should be absolutely free from
-either clay or loam, for if it contain either it will, in the one
-case, under the action of sun and water, form a hard surface in which
-the vines will not thrive, or in the other, if there is much loam
-intermixed, it will contain weed seeds, which will prove a detriment
-to the bog. Sand can generally be found in the immediate vicinity of
-the bog, and should preferably be coarse rather than fine in quality.
-
-To spread the sand over the bog, lay down a course of plank, over
-which the sand can be wheeled in barrows and so dumped, from this
-plank-walk, as to make the level spreading thereof a matter of little
-labor; shift the plank about four feet from that portion already
-covered, and dump to right and left as before; enough should be
-brought on to give an even coating of from four to five inches, and
-it may be smoothed by a lawn rake, or a leveller made of one-inch
-board, about a foot and a half long, by three or four inches wide,
-with a rake handle fastened in the centre of the board.
-
-When the sand has been evenly spread over the bog, it is ready to
-be marked off. This is generally done by using an improvised rake
-or “marker,” made of a piece of 2 by 4 inch joist, seven to ten feet
-long, with white-oak teeth eight inches long, set eighteen inches
-apart, the whole finished with a handle for easy working. This rake
-is usually run parallel with some straight ditch, or along one side
-of a bog in a straight line, so that when set in vines it may present
-a uniform appearance. But as, in the case of corn, “more grows in
-crooked rows than straight ones,” this may be left to taste and
-convenience; again cross-marking at right angles, and you are ready
-for setting the vines.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-                                        NEWPORT, R.I., Oct. 26, 1891.
-
-  I have used Bradley’s Fertilizer on my cranberry bog twice, and
-  find a great improvement in checking the growth of moss, also
-  in starting the vines. In fact, I think it made the vines grow
-  too fast, or I may have put on too much. I can recommend it as a
-  first-class Fertilizer.
-
-                                                  H. B. RYDER,
-                                                      17 Harvard Ave.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-                                 NORTH HARWICH, MASS., Oct. 19, 1891.
-
-  I have used Bradley’s Fertilizer on my cranberry bogs, both old
-  and new, the past three or four years, with highly satisfactory
-  results. It adds to the growth of new vines, so that they cover the
-  ground quicker, and come into bearing one or two years earlier than
-  they would were there no fertilizer applied.
-
-  On my old vines the effect of this Fertilizer has been to kill out
-  the moss (burn it up, to appearance), and to so renew the vines as
-  to give them the look of a young bog.
-
-                                                       JOHN E. RYDER.
-
-
-[Illustration: VIEW OF CRANBERRY BOG OWNED BY CAPT. E. K. CROWELL,
-DENNISPORT.]
-
-                                            DENNISPORT, Mar. 2, 1892.
-
-  I have used Bradley’s Fertilizers for a number of years on
-  cranberry vines, both old and new, with good and satisfactory
-  results. The fruit will generally be larger and fairer where it
-  is used, and used on young vines will cause them to spread and
-  shade the ground, thus preventing as large a growth of weeds. I
-  cheerfully recommend it to all cranberry growers.
-
-  The foreground shows vines set in the spring of 1890; the
-  background on the right new bearing bog, and on the left, a small
-  showing of vines set in spring of 1891.
-
-                                                       E. K. CROWELL.
-
-
-
-
-                           THE BEST BERRY.
-
-
-There is a wide division of opinion in regard to what is the best
-berry to grow; the shrewdest growers find that a selection of
-berries, running from the very early to the very late berry, gives
-the best returns when a series of years is taken into account.
-
-By common consent the purple-black berry, called “Early Black,” has
-been the favorite with both growers and consumers, as its handsome,
-rich coloring made it a good seller, while it is also a very prolific
-berry. It is a medium-hard berry, and for bogs which are liable to be
-infested with the fire, fruit, or span worm it seems preferable, as
-the bog can be kept under water until as late as the first or middle
-of June, and these berries will then, in an average season, ripen
-before frost. It is, however, pretty well conceded by many growers
-that this berry has been of great injury to the business as a whole,
-since it is one of the poorest of keepers, and, while affording
-profit for the time to the grower, has been of such loss to the
-“middleman,” as to render him unduly cautious of Cape Cod berries.
-This reputation which has attached itself to the Cape crop is wholly
-unwarranted by a careful and intelligent investigation of the many
-and various conditions which govern this, the most important feature
-of the whole business.
-
-The “A. D. Makepeace” berry is the outcome of a berry found by
-its namesake, the largest grower in this country, and gradually
-cultivated until it is conceded to be the largest early berry in the
-market, and as such commands a high price. It is of cherry shape, and
-rose-tinged purple in coloring. Illustration No. 1 is a fair example
-of the shape of this berry.
-
-The “James Anthony” is a very good variety of the second early
-berries, and by some considered among the best keepers of the
-medium-early berries.
-
-The “Bachelor” is a larger berry, and, like the “J. P. Howes,” proves
-to be a fair keeper and a salable berry, although the Howes is more
-even and regular in size.
-
-The “McFarland” is a dark-red, handsome berry, of large size, and a
-favorite with a few large growers.
-
-The “Bugle” or “Chipman” is an older berry, and one of the best
-keepers, but not as productive as some others.
-
-The six varieties mentioned are the most popular grown. Some others
-may have a local reputation, which time and attention will bring into
-favorable notice. Local conditions have much to do, however, with
-qualities in all cases.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-                                   HARWICHPORT, MASS., Oct. 20, 1891.
-
-  I have used Bradley’s Fertilizer for a number of years on
-  cranberries, both on newly set vines and old vines. I apply it
-  broadcast, and I find it pays well. I can recommend it to be a good
-  investment, causing more and larger fruit.
-
-                                                    WATSON B. KELLEY.
-
-
-
-
-                            THE PLANTING.
-
-
-The Cranberry is propagated, through the means of vines which are
-procured from old bogs; they are cut or mowed off, preferably from
-vines not more than three or four years old. In sorting these
-cuttings, care should be taken to remove all the dead wood, and only
-the bright, clean cuttings used for planting. Most growers estimate
-five barrels of cuttings to the acre of bog, as they use from four
-to six cuttings in each setting. Some growers prefer taking runners
-twenty to thirty inches in length, and doubling them over at time of
-planting; but the former seems to be the generally adopted method.
-
-The usual method of planting is by using a “dibble,” or
-setting-blade, made from hard wood, although one of the shrewdest
-growers has recently adopted an implement consisting of an iron
-blade, with a cross-piece handle of wood. He claims that this is
-far preferable to any wooden instrument, and always readily presses
-through the sand, although it is not sharp enough to cut the vines.
-
-In planting, a bunch of four or six runners is placed upon the sand
-at every intersecting corner. This bunch is held in the left hand of
-the planter, while with his right hand he presses them into the sand
-by means of the “dibble,” so that they will reach through to the soil
-beneath, and when planted will not come above the surface more than
-two inches. The accompanying sketch shows the method of planting.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  A A is the main ditch encircling the bog.
-  B B is the central ditch.
-  C C are the cross-ditches draining into main and central ditches.
-  D D are the lines made by the marker.
-  E E show points at which plants are set.
-]
-
-About two weeks after the cuttings are set, a small handful of
-Bradley’s Superphosphate should be scattered around each bunch of
-cuttings, as this will cause them to grow with great vigor, and so
-stimulate their growth that few if any of the cuttings will die;
-sometimes not one in a hundred will fail to make a flourishing set.
-It is a little more work, but advisable, to put the fertilizer in the
-hill, just under the sand.
-
-Some growers prefer, after the bog is planted, to keep the ground
-wet by damming back the water to within six or eight inches of
-the surface of the bog, and keeping it here until the vines give
-signs of having made some growth. The water is then let out of the
-ditches, and the vines take care of themselves through the ensuing
-season, unless it happens to be a particularly dry summer. If so,
-once or twice, through the dryest of the season, the water should
-be dammed back for a few days, and the vines receive the benefit
-of the irrigation. They will not need any further care during the
-first season, unless there is a growth of weeds, which should be
-effectually destroyed.
-
-A cleanly, well-kept bog is not only a beautiful sight, but is the
-foundation for large returns in the future; it requires no little
-care, during the first year or two, on the best of bogs to secure the
-proper money return, in order that the unavoidable outlay heretofore
-outlined may be rendered remunerative. Four hundred dollars per acre
-is no unusual amount to be expended in preparing a bog.
-
-
-
-
-                           FERTILIZATION.
-
-
-Until within a few years the Cranberry bog has had to depend upon its
-own resources for fertilization, as it was popularly supposed that a
-bog contained all the necessary nutriment to feed the growing crop.
-Careful investigation by the most successful growers has led them to
-believe that, in common with every other farm crop, a larger crop of
-finer quality of fruit can be grown per acre, if a good commercial
-fertilizer is used upon the Cranberry. They therefore commence with
-the plant when set out, and scatter a small quantity of fertilizer
-around each plant in setting, as we have before suggested on page 17;
-and each year thereafter they sow broadcast over the bog from 200 to
-400 pounds of Bradley’s Superphosphate to the acre. The result is
-that a larger crop of richer-colored berries is secured, which will
-more successfully withstand handling and shipping. The vines are also
-so stimulated that the crop ripens much earlier, and very often a
-saving of hundreds of dollars will be made, through the grower being
-able to gather the berries early in the season, before the frost
-comes.
-
-On old bogs, which are partially run out, the influence of a liberal
-dressing of Bradley’s Superphosphate is very marked, as it gives the
-vines a fresh supply of needed food, and brings ample returns the
-first season in largely increased crops of berries.
-
-So marked is this effect, that if any one having a Cranberry bog will
-fertilize a small section of it for one season, at the rate of 200
-to 400 pounds of Bradley’s Phosphate to the acre, he will always use
-this fertilizer thereafter, as the results will readily prove that it
-will pay him liberally to do so.
-
-Another reason for fertilization is, that, through a liberal use of
-Bradley’s Superphosphate, the young plants attain that sturdy growth
-which enables them to withstand more successfully the attacks of the
-fire, fruit, and span worm, which flourish best upon weak plants.
-
-The common theory that a fertilizer is simply a stimulant, whose
-influence is of no permanent benefit, has been proved to be erroneous
-by the experiments of some of the largest growers, who, after having
-used Bradley’s Superphosphate, find that not only have they grown
-enormous crops of the best quality berries, but their bogs are
-annually in a better condition than their neighbors’ bogs which have
-not been fertilized, and from which only small or average crops of
-berries have been secured.
-
-By common consent, therefore, the leading growers are large users of
-Bradley’s Superphosphate, as they are convinced that its liberal use
-upon their bogs is repaid to them every season in increased crops of
-perfect fruit which commands the highest market price.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-                                SOUTH YARMOUTH, MASS., Oct. 22, 1891.
-
-  I have used the Bradley Fertilizer on newly set cranberry vines,
-  and find it causes them to grow and spread more rapidly over a new
-  bog.
-
-                                                      JAMES F. SEARS.
-
-
-
-
-                         CRANBERRY ENEMIES.
-
-
-One of the greatest enemies to successful Cranberry growing is one
-that can be easily conquered, but which is oftenest neglected; that
-is, the weeds and small bushes when they first appear. It is a
-comparatively easy matter under the more favorable conditions, during
-the three years before the bog comes to full bearing, to go over it
-once or twice during each season with a hoe, and clean out every weed
-and bush, no matter how small and insignificant it make look. But
-the grower often thinks that this is unnecessary labor, especially
-as he has put considerable money into the bog, and as yet has had
-no returns from his investment. If this work is neglected now, when
-the bog comes to fruiting there will be found, especially among the
-plants, quite an amount of injurious weeds and small bushes which
-increase rapidly from year to year, and finally kill out the bog. But
-if during the first three years they are steadily and systematically
-cut down, they become so thoroughly eradicated that a little going
-over the bog every spring will keep it in good condition for ten or
-fifteen years, with little trouble from either weeds or bushes.
-
-The cultivation of the Cranberry, ever since it has been
-cultivated for a crop, has been a practical exemplification of
-the advice of that eminent agriculturist, Horace Greeley, who,
-for the extermination of the Canadian thistle, recommended its
-“cultivation,” as then there would come plenty of enemies to
-accomplish its destruction.
-
-The fire, span, tip, and fruit worms rank in the order named as the
-most destructive,--the first two in the list blasting in a few hours
-an almost assured and abundant crop.
-
-The larger growers, after experimenting with perhaps all of the
-known insecticides, have most generally adopted some form of tobacco
-preparation, applied in solution in the form of a spray, upon the
-first indication of the approach of the fire-worm.
-
-So extensive is the use of tobacco, that one grower, Mr. Franklin
-Crocker, of Hyannis, treasurer of the South Sea Cranberry Company,
-who has probably given as much attention as any other grower to this
-branch of the business, informs us that for himself and others he
-purchased, in its various forms, over five thousand dollars’ worth
-of tobacco during the past two years, for this purpose. Mr. Crocker
-tells of his experience with tobacco in his letter on page 3 of cover.
-
-Many growers (not all) are able to resort to “Spring Flowage” as an
-effective and cheap remedy for fire-worms. That this is effective
-there can be no question, but in its application for destroying
-the worm it is injurious to the keeping quality of the fruit when
-gathered.
-
-
-
-
-                            THE HARVEST.
-
-
-The picking of berries commences about the first of September. They
-should be picked as soon as the greater part have put on a good, fair
-color. The great mistake in the past has been in allowing the berries
-to become over size. The trade has demanded _dark_ berries, which
-made the Early Blacks so popular; but all that was gained in _color_
-was at the sacrifice of the keeping quality, to the injury of the
-grower and dealer.
-
-This is becoming so well recognized that “pick early” comes with
-the greater emphasis from all the larger dealers, who, by sad
-experiences, have become more interested in this particular feature
-than the grower, who, gathering his harvest of beautiful fruit, has
-also immediately gathered in the skekels, recognizing that “the best
-time to sell is right off the bog.” Thus has he “Sown to the Wind;”
-and while disaster has been delayed, its coming is manifest in the
-experience of the past season, when in some cases the crop has not
-paid expenses.
-
-An old receipt, “How to cook a hare,” began, “First catch the
-hare.” We have endeavored to tell you how to get the crop; and now,
-supposing you have this, we will give you an idea of how it is
-gathered, so far as may be of interest to the uninitiated: Lines are
-drawn across the bog, from eight to twenty feet apart, as a guide
-for keeping in place those pickers who incline otherwise to the
-right or left, as “spots” thick or thin allure or repel them in their
-eagerness “to fill the measure.” Then, placing as many pickers within
-the lines as can have sufficient “elbow room,” picking length-wise,
-they proceed to pick.
-
-An overseer is needed for every twenty-five pickers, to see that the
-work is properly done, each in his or her own place, and that all are
-picking clean from the vines, and from the “bottom;” that is, picking
-from the ground all scattering berries.
-
-Measures holding six quarts are the most convenient size, and the
-usual price is ten cents per measure, each picker using generally
-two measures and so saving time, as the berries must be carried to
-the “Tally.” The pickers are all known by numbers, and as they go to
-empty their measure they report “Number (5),” one or two measures,
-as the case may be, the Tally repeating each number and tally, as a
-precaution against mistakes.
-
-On some bogs checks are given thus: “Good for ten cents, South Sea
-Co., F. Crocker, Hyannis, Treas.;” and such checks are current coin
-during “Cranberry time” for supplies at the stores.
-
-Again, others provide themselves with a large amount of dimes, and so
-“pay off” as each measure is delivered. Berries, after being picked,
-should be put in slatted boxes holding about one bushel each, as
-being the most convenient size to handle, and then put away for at
-least twenty-four hours to cool off, as prevention against the almost
-immediate process of decay if this is not done.
-
-
-
-
-                             BARRELLING.
-
-
-After being thoroughly cooled they are put in screens about ten feet
-long, three feet wide at the upper end, and six to eight inches
-at the lower end, from which, under the careful eye of an expert
-“screener,” they are “run” into a barrel set ready to receive them.
-
-Four or five screeners about each screen remove all trash and unsound
-berries, and sometimes the light-colored ones, which are held to
-“color up,” or packed separately and marked “Light.” As the barrels
-are being filled, they should be thoroughly shaken, at least three
-times; then, when the uninitiated packer thinks he has got the barrel
-full enough, it needs from four to six quarts more, when, with a
-screw, press the berries firmly down into the barrel. The barrels now
-properly headed and nailed, carry the berries in shape to command the
-highest price for which their grade may warrant. It _pays_ to pack
-the fruit as _solid_ as possible, since, whether sound or otherwise,
-a full barrel will _sell_ when one lacking one inch or more of
-berries will command little attention.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-                                  WEST HARWICH, MASS., Oct. 19, 1891.
-
-  In the spring of 1890 I bought an acre of cranberry bog that had
-  been set about 30 years, and was so run down as to bear only about
-  10 barrels per year. I immediately applied 400 pounds of Bradley’s
-  Fertilizer, and received the first year a crop of 22 barrels.
-
-  Last spring I applied 600 pounds of same Fertilizer, and have
-  just gathered 40 barrels of nice berries, making an increase of
-  30 barrels a year on one acre by the use of Bradley’s Fertilizer,
-  equal to 300 per cent. gain.
-
-  Besides all this improvement in the crop, the Fertilizer has had
-  the effect to renew the vines to such an extent as to give them
-  the appearance of a new bog, while the moss, which was quite
-  troublesome, has been wholly killed out. It is surprising to see
-  how quick moss will begin to disappear where Bradley’s Fertilizer
-  has been applied.
-
-                                                         W. P. BAKER.
-
-
-
-
-              THE 1891 CROP IN THE NEW ENGLAND STATES.
-
-
-The following comparative statement of the 1891 crop of Cranberries
-on Dec. 1, 1891, in the New England States, was compiled by Charles
-H. Nye, Esq., Superintendent Cape Cod Division, Old Colony Railroad,
-and allowing that 9,000 bushels may have been grown in Rhode Island
-and Connecticut, would make the 1891 crop about or quite 480,000
-bushels.
-
-  ============================+===============+========================
-                              |     1890.     |     1891.     |
-     STATIONS SHIPPED FROM.   +--------+------+--------+------+ TO BE
-                              |BARRELS.|BOXES.|BARRELS.|BOXES.|SHIPPED.
-  ----------------------------+--------+------+--------+------+--------
-  Rock                        |  1,879 |   993|  3,420 |   296|
-  South Middleboro            |     74 |    14|    248 |    14|
-  Tremont                     | 16,840 | 2,640| 23,986 | 2,486|   200
-  Marion                      |    440 |   310|    441 |   361|
-  Mattapoisett                |    175 |    63|    215 |   688|
-  South Wareham               |    416 |    90|    516 |   269|
-  Wareham                     | 14,919 | 4,870| 18,125 | 4,743|
-  East Wareham                |  2,223 |   203|        |      |
-  Onset Junction              |        |      |  3,412 |   156|   300
-  Buzzard’s Bay               |     33 |   127|    223 |   130|
-  Monument Beach              |    229 |   147|    550 |    18|
-  Wenaumet                    |     37 |    31|    103 |    97|
-  Cataumet                    |   1690 |   498|    323 |   381|
-  North Falmouth              |    655 |   711|    753 | 1,459|
-  West Falmouth               |    164 |    11|     90 |    15|
-  Falmouth                    |  1,997 |   872|  4,085 | 3,281|   400
-  Woods Holl                  |    182 |      |        |      |
-  Bourne                      |    859 |    83|  1,606 |   415|
-  Bournedale                  |  1,512 |   738|  1,160 |   654|
-  Sagamore                    |  3,108 | 1,343|  4,589 |   971|
-  Sandwich                    |  2,626 | 2,925|  6,003 | 2,700| 1,000
-  West Barnstable             |  8,081 | 1,804| 12,599 | 2,174|
-  Barnstable                  |    399 |     9|    383 |    14|
-  Yarmouth                    |  2,943 |   990|  5,373 |   673|   200
-  Hyannis                     |  1,754 |   589|  2,270 |   810| 1,000
-  South Yarmouth              |  1,890 |   525|  4,712 |   503|
-  South Dennis                |  2,434 |   754|  5,780 |   787|
-  North Harwich               |  2,073 |   770|  3,945 | 1,257|   250
-  Harwich                     |  4,847 | 3,160| 10,996 | 3,059|
-  South Harwich               |    613 |   181|    802 |   702|
-  South Chatham               |    160 |    80|    382 |   139|
-  Chatham                     |    498 |   241|    649 |   277|
-  Pleasant Lake               |  1,244 | 1,031|  1,369 | 1,210|
-  Brewster                    |  2,440 |   457|  2,959 |   585|
-  Orleans                     |    568 |   165|  1,218 |   164|
-  Eastham                     |    104 |    36|    137 |   132|    50
-  North Eastham               |     10 |    12|     36 |    36|
-  South Wellfleet             |     10 |     2|     26 |      |
-  Wellfleet                   |     80 |    55|     67 |    20|
-  South Truro                 |     45 |    45|     27 |    20|
-  Truro                       |        |      |     88 |      |
-  North Truro                 |        |      |      8 |      |
-  Provincetown                |    146 |    61|     57 |     5|
-  ----------------------------+--------+------+--------+------+--------
-    Total shipments, barrels  | 79,006 |27,646|123,737 |31,761| 3,400
-    Boxes reduced to barrels  |  9,215 |      | 10,587 |      |
-  ----------------------------+--------+------+--------+------+--------
-    Total number barrels      | 88,221 |      |134,324 |      |
-    To be shipped             |  1,665 |      |  3,400 |      |
-  ----------------------------+--------+------+--------+------+--------
-      Total, Cape Cod Division| 89,886 |      |137,724 |      |
-  ============================+========+======+========+======+========
-
-
-                 CENTRAL DIVISION, OLD COLONY RAILROAD.
-
-  ========================+======+========================
-                          | 1890.|     1891.     |
-   STATIONS SHIPPED FROM. +------+--------+------+ TOTAL
-                          |BOXES.|BARRELS.|BOXES.|BARRELS.
-  ------------------------+------+--------+------+--------
-  Plymouth                |11,232| 11,194 |   980| 11,521
-  Plympton                | 1,418|  1,964 |   589|  2,160
-  South Hanson            |   660|    665 |    16|    670
-  Middleboro’             |      |  2,045 | 1,038|  2,391
-  North Easton            |      |    300 |      |    300
-  Taunton                 |   240|    232 |      |    232
-  Mansfield               |      |    182 |      |    182
-  Attleboro’              |   240|    528 |      |    528
-  ------------------------+------+--------+------+--------
-  Central Division        |      |        |      | 17,984
-  Martha’s Vineyard       |      |        |      |  1,308
-  ------------------------+------+--------+------+--------
-    Total number barrels  |      |        |      | 19,292
-    Add Cape Cod Division |      |        |      |137,724
-  ------------------------+------+--------+------+--------
-      Total number barrels|      |        |      |157,016
-  Or 471,048 bushels.     |      |        |      |
-  ========================+======+========================
-
-
-
-
-                 THE 1891 CROP OF THE UNITED STATES.
-
-
-Mr. A. J. Rider, Secretary of the American Cranberry Growers’
-Association, estimates the entire crop of Cranberries grown in 1891
-as follows:
-
-  New England      480,000 bush.
-  New Jersey       250,000   ”
-  The West          30,000   ”
-                   -------
-      Total        760,000   ”
-
-Showing that the crop for the entire country was short 100,000
-bushels, when compared with the 1890 crop.
-
-
-
-
-                   THE FERTILIZER FOR CRANBERRIES.
-
-
-Bradley’s Superphosphate, “the old reliable,” has been successfully
-used in the cultivation of Cranberries for many years past.
-
-It is, as every one knows, the best general fertilizer on the market.
-By _practical experience_, and not by fallacious (though plausible)
-_theories_, it has demonstrated its entire fitness for growing
-the best Cranberries and producing the largest crops. It has been
-repeatedly noticed that Cranberries grown on this fertilizer are more
-highly colored, harder, and better “keepers” than those raised under
-ordinary conditions of cultivation.
-
-As Bradley’s Phosphate contains the very choicest quality of plant
-foods in such forms and proportions as long practical experience has
-demonstrated will most fully satisfy the demands of the crop for a
-complete and nutritious fertilizer, it wholly meets the requirements
-of the Cranberry, as has been abundantly proven by exhaustive tests
-on the largest bogs.
-
-A “Special Fertilizer” for Cranberries, claimed to be “based on their
-analysis,” may be taking with some; but this is only an _idea_,--a
-_theory_ without _practice_ to support it, an advertising dodge to
-catch the uninitiated. The theory of feeding plants on this basis was
-exploded long ago both at home and abroad; and while formerly one
-manufacturer of “Special Fertilizers” advertised twenty-four special
-crop formulas, he now sells but ten, and the analyses of these are
-totally different from the original formulas which were represented
-as accurate demonstrations of the “discovery,” so called.
-
-Professor Johnson, Director of the Connecticut Agricultural
-Experiment Station, and one of the best authorities on agricultural
-chemistry of this country, has said: “_In honest truth, there is no
-possibility of compounding special fertilizers adapted to each of
-our various crops, nor even to our various classes of crops. Special
-manures for particular crops are, in fact, least heard of where
-agriculture is guided by the clearest light of science and the widest
-range of experience._”
-
-Professor Atwater, recently Director of the Experiment Stations of
-the United States at Washington, has stated: “_There is no best
-fertilizer for any crop, and the formulas to fit all cases are out of
-the question._” So do not be caught by this _theory_ snare, and pay
-four or five dollars a ton extra on your fertilizer for that “idea.”
-
-Bradley’s Superphosphate has stood the test of nearly thirty years,
-and its sales are far greater than that of any other fertilizer on
-the market. It is the acknowledged _Standard_, so recognized by
-its strongest competitors, whose favorite argument is that their
-fertilizer is “equal to Bradley’s.” “There are tricks in all trades,”
-but no trick can undermine the stability of an article so universally
-recognized as the _standard of excellence_ in its class as Bradley’s
-Phosphate.
-
-The following letter may serve to answer inquiries about
-“_Insecticide_.”
-
-                                       HYANNIS, MASS., Feb. 22, 1892.
-
-  In regard to tobacco as an insecticide, I submit the following:
-  Tobacco solution is prepared by steeping tobacco stems in warm
-  water, using from one and a half to two pounds of stems to a gallon
-  of water, according to strength of stems in the nicotine principle.
-  So far, the larger growers prefer the stems from the Missouri-river
-  region, and for this purpose I ordered six car-loads last Saturday
-  from that section for the use of growers the coming season.
-
-  Of the solution, when prepared, it takes about one gallon to a
-  square rod, applied in the form of a spray as fine as possible.
-  For this purpose the “Nixon Pump” is the most effective among the
-  many that I have ever tested. The application should be made upon
-  the first appearance of the worms; any delay resulting often in
-  entire loss of crop, since nothing but flowage will kill the larger
-  worms. Another and more convenient solution is obtained from Hill’s
-  Extract of Tobacco--two or three quarts to a barrel of water. This
-  requires no heating, and may be prepared at a moment’s notice. My
-  sales last year of this Extract amounted to over eight hundred
-  gallons.
-
-                         Respectfully yours,
-                                                    FRANKLIN CROCKER.
-
-
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-<h1>The Cranberry</h1>
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-<p class="fs90"><span style="margin-left: 22em;"><em>PUBLISHED BY</em></span></p>
-<p class="fs120"><span class="smcap" style="margin-left: 13em;">Bradley Fertilizer Co.</span></p>
-<p class="fs90"><span style="margin-left: 23em;">BOSTON</span></p>
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-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</span></p>
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-<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="image002" style="max-width: 62.5em;">
-  <img class="w100" src="images/image002.jpg" alt="">
-  <figcaption class="caption"><p class="center"><span class="smcap">Picking Cranberries on the Old Colony Co.’s Cranberry Bog at
-South Yarmouth, Mass.</span></p></figcaption>
-</figure>
-
-<div class="blockquot fs80">
-<p class="right"><span class="smcap">West Dennis</span>, Mass., Oct. 19, 1891.<br></p>
-
-<p>Having had the superintendency of preparing and setting
-to vines what is called the “Old Colony cranberry
-bog,” which contains about 25 acres, I have had occasion
-to use the different kinds of commercial fertilizers sold on
-the market, and of them all I now use the Bradley.</p>
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-<p>It has proved a great help in starting our new vines,
-giving them a vigorous growth and bringing the bog into
-bearing much earlier than would have been the case had
-Bradley’s fertilizer not been applied.</p>
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-<p>We think very highly of your fertilizer, and recommend
-its use by cranberry-growers generally. The photograph
-you have of our cranberry bog will give some idea of what
-we are doing.</p>
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-<p class="right">
-REUBEN BAKER, <em>Sup’t.</em><br>
-R. A. BAKER, <em>Treas.</em><br>
-</p>
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-<p class="center fs80"><em>Copyrighted by Bradley Fertiliser Co., 1892.</em></p>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</span></p>
-
-<p class="no-indent">The Cranberry.</p>
-<figure class="figcenter illowp69" id="image003a" style="max-width: 62.5em;">
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-<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">
-This</span> book is not intended to be a scientific or elaborate treatise upon the
-Cranberry, but rather a book of practical suggestions, and a summary
-of helpful hints that may prove of benefit to those who undertake to
-grow this fruit.</p>
-
-<p>The methods of growing Cranberries vary with localities and growers, and
-are undoubtedly in an experimental state at the present time. The original
-Cranberry grower was the owner of some wild and uncultivated patch where,
-in a natural condition, the berries (receiving no attention until picking time)
-were gathered “at halves,” meeting little or no market beyond the limits of
-the locality in which they grew.</p>
-
-<p>The modern grower has found the application of improved methods of
-cultivation and fertilization to pay liberally with the Cranberry, as with every
-other crop, and it should be his endeavor, through all available methods, to reduce
-the cost of growing and increase the yield of berries per acre, giving
-special attention to such culture as may the better secure the <em>keeping quality</em>
-of the fruit.</p>
-
-<p>In order to do this, the grower may have to lay aside his preconceived
-notions as to the best methods of growing and fertilization, and possibly even<span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</span>
-discard some which have in years past been approved by leading growers.
-By a careful selection of varieties best adapted to each particular locality, or
-frequently by a larger increase in the depth of sand upon the bog, and
-then by the greatest care in all that pertains to the picking and packing
-of the fruit, he will be enabled to maintain for the Cape berries a foremost
-reputation as “keepers” among those who handle this valuable crop. Too
-little attention has heretofore been paid to this essential feature, and quantity
-rather than quality has been sought. When secured, the berries, as a general
-thing, are hurriedly packed at the bog, usually warm from the vines, and so,
-oft-times, they are almost ruined before reaching a market. This practice is
-largely responsible for the prejudice of some dealers against Cape berries.</p>
-
-<p>Again, improved methods of cultivation by which an increased production,
-with improved quality, may be secured, are certainly desirable to every individual
-grower; though the present enormous crop would hardly seem to warrant a
-larger acreage, yet, at the same time, it behooves every grower to make as
-productive as possible (in view of the great expenditure) each acre already
-under cultivation.</p>
-
-<p>The matter here presented is the result of thorough investigation into the
-methods of cultivation as practised by the most successful growers, and we
-believe it presents facts to the grower which will prove well worthy of his
-careful attention.</p>
-
-<p class="right">BRADLEY FERTILIZER CO.<br></p>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_BOG">THE BOG.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div>
-  <img class="drop-cap" src="images/i.jpg" width="11" height="25" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">It</span> is popularly supposed that the Cranberry flourishes upon Cape Cod because
-of the salt sea sand of which the Cape is so largely composed.
-This theory, however, is erroneous, as it has been proved that even on
-Cape Cod the Cranberry will not flourish except under certain other favorable
-conditions.</p>
-
-<p>The first inquiry, then, is, What kind of land is preferable for a bog?
-The best growers select a laurel, maple, or cedar swamp, so situated that it
-can be easily flowed with water at any time when this may seem necessary.
-They select a swamp in preference to a meadow, because it is found in
-practice that a meadow always produces considerable coarse grass detrimental
-to the crop, which does not grow in the swamps.</p>
-
-<p>Again, it is proved that a swamp on which wood has grown has a better
-bottom than the average meadow, as it is largely composed of decayed foliage,
-which has for many years dropped from the trees, and has gradually become
-a rich, friable soil, usually free from either weeds or grass.</p>
-
-<p>Some growers believe that it is not essential to have the bog so situated
-that it can be covered by water; but, while there are some very fine dry
-Cranberry bogs of this description, if an early frost or the fire-worm strikes the
-crop at a vital time, it causes an entire failure, which could have been prevented
-had there been a chance of promptly flowing the bog.</p>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="HOW_TO_PREPARE_A_BOG">HOW TO PREPARE A BOG.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div>
-  <img class="drop-cap" src="images/t.jpg" width="31" height="35" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">
-The</span> Cranberry bog is usually prepared in late fall, winter, or early
-spring, when the ground is partially frozen, as it is more easily
-cleared at this time, and cheaper labor is obtainable.</p>
-
-<p>The first step in preparing the bog is to mow off, with a bush scythe, all
-the small brush and undergrowth. We are then ready to get rid of the trees.
-Experience has proved that the cheaper way is to cut the roots of the large
-trees, and then by means of tackle, in case they do not fall by their own
-weight, pull them over to the ground. This saves many days’ labor, which would
-be necessary if the trees were cut down above the ground and the stumps then
-dug out.</p>
-
-<p>The refuse materials should be gathered into heaps, and, when dried, burned
-upon the bog; but great care is necessary in burning not to allow the moss and
-turf, of which the bog is composed, to get on fire; for when once fairly started,
-it is nearly impossible, except by flowing the bog, to extinguish the flames.</p>
-
-<p>These first steps in clearing the bog must be done in the best possible
-manner, preferably by day labor, under the direct care of a watchful foreman,
-as the ultimate success of the Cranberry bog depends very largely upon the
-thoroughness with which all of the tree and bush roots are removed.</p>
-
-<p>After the surface of the bog has been thoroughly cleaned off, it is cut into<span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</span>
-squares, about eighteen inches across, by means of a turf-axe, which is a thin,
-hatchet-shaped bladed implement, with a stout, hickory handle, about thirty
-inches long. This axe is utilized for cutting the tough, undergrowing roots, sure
-to be found just below the surface of the soil.</p>
-
-<p>The usual method is to cut across the bog in parallel lines eighteen inches
-apart, and again at right angles in parallel lines in the same manner, thus
-leaving the turf in square blocks about eighteen inches square. Two men
-with long-handled, four-pronged bog-hooks follow the cutters, pulling over the
-turf, which, after the ditching is finished, should be chopped up, and so rendered
-suitable for making the surface as smooth as possible, when the work
-of final grading is completed.</p>
-
-<p>We are now ready for ditching; the manner and methods necessary to
-secure the best possible drainage being subject, of course, to such varied
-conditions as to render it difficult to describe. But if there were but three
-essential features of special importance, two of them would be drainage.</p>
-
-<p>All of the ditches should be dug with flaring banks, so as to prevent caving
-in of the sides of the ditch, and thus making constant trouble. A ditch, in any
-case, around the entire bog is an essential feature in drainage, and to carry-off
-the cold surface water, as well as a preventive of much difficulty in cultivation,
-etc.</p>
-
-<p>If the ditches are thoroughly well made they will need but little repairing
-or cleaning, and here as elsewhere in preparing the bog the most careful attention
-on the part of the superintendent will prove the cheapest in the end.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</span></p>
-
-<p>After the ditches are completed, the bog must be graded until it is as
-smooth and level as a lawn. In grading the bog the levels must be run in
-such a manner that it can be easily flooded with water, since sometimes it may
-be desirable to do this as expeditiously as possible, and the necessary arrangements
-to do this should be provided at this time.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb">
-
-<div class="blockquot fs80">
-<p class="right">
-<span class="smcap">North Harwich, Mass.</span>, Oct. 19, 1891.<br>
-</p>
-
-<p>I have been in the habit of using Bradley’s Fertilizer on my cranberry bogs for a number of
-years, and consider it very beneficial. It pushes the new vines along to a bearing condition much
-earlier than would be the case if left to depend on the natural strength of the soil, and by
-covering the ground quicker with vines the grass and brush are not so likely to get a start.</p>
-
-<p>It also does well on old vines, increasing the crop, and the size and quality of the berry.
-Last spring, to my sorrow, I neglected to apply this phosphate to my old bog, and on gathering
-my crop this fall I found I had made a great mistake. Shall use it another year, without
-fail.</p>
-
-<p class="right fs90">
-BENJ. F. HALL.<br>
-</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="tb">
-
-<div class="blockquot fs80">
-<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Harwichport, Mass.</span>, Oct. 19, 1891.<br></p>
-
-<p>I have used Bradley’s Fertilizer for growing cranberries, and find it very beneficial. New vines
-come to bearing one year earlier by its use, and grass and weeds are crowded out, and do not
-get the foothold they are apt to where vines grow slowly, and are a long while covering the
-ground.</p>
-
-<p>Cranberry growers in this section are finding it greatly to their interest to use Bradley’s Fertilizer
-on their bogs, both new and old.</p>
-
-<p>About the 1st of June, 1891, I put on 100 pounds of Bradley’s Fertilizer on about 60 rods of
-late vines, set out 20 years ago. On the other side of the ditch were 60 rods of vines, the same
-age, both done by the same man; in other words, the same conditions exactly, except the Fertilizer.
-This year I gathered both pieces. The piece to which I applied 100 pounds of Fertilizer
-yielded 8 barrels of cranberries, the other, barely 1 barrel.</p>
-
-<p class="right fs90">E. B. ALLEN.</p>
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_DAM">THE DAM.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div>
-  <img class="drop-cap" src="images/a.jpg" width="50" height="42" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">
-A dam</span> must be built at the lower end of the bog, in such a manner
-as seems necessary from the location and force of the water running
-through the main ditch. If the main ditch is a brook which
-carries a large amount of surplus water, the dam must be very strongly and
-thoroughly built; but if, on the other hand, it is simply a ditch filled by springs
-or small brooks found in the bog, a simple dam can be thrown up at slight
-cost; although care must be taken to make it strong enough, so that the high
-water in winter or spring will not carry it away and leave the vines unprotected
-from the frost. If the bog is of large size, and a large amount of water is
-needed, of course a larger and more substantial dam must be built. The accompanying
-illustration gives a section of a turf dam, preferably about fifteen feet
-wide at the bottom by ten feet at the top, constructed of turf, and sand or clay,
-in such a manner as to be absolutely safe.</p>
-
-<p>It will be seen that the walls slope from the foundation to the top, and are
-composed outside of layers of turf, so laid one upon the other that the joints
-are broken and a solid wall is made, between which is filled in a mass of stone,
-clay, and sand, thoroughly tamped down so as to make a firm structure in the
-centre of the dam. At the end of the main ditch should be constructed a water-course
-or flume, preferably of two-inch plank, with a waste-gate that can be
-raised or lowered as the supply of water may be needed or allowed to run to<span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</span>
-waste. This is simply made of plank, with an oak joist for a lever, which, used
-as a pry, easily opens the gate.</p>
-
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_SANDING">THE SANDING.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div>
-  <img class="drop-cap" src="images/t.jpg" width="31" height="35" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">
-The</span> sand used on a Cranberry bog should be absolutely free from
-either clay or loam, for if it contain either it will, in the one case,
-under the action of sun and water, form a hard surface in which
-the vines will not thrive, or in the other, if there is much loam intermixed,
-it will contain weed seeds, which will prove a detriment to the bog. Sand
-can generally be found in the immediate vicinity of the bog, and should
-preferably be coarse rather than fine in quality.</p>
-
-<p>To spread the sand over the bog, lay down a course of plank, over
-which the sand can be wheeled in barrows and so dumped, from this
-plank-walk, as to make the level spreading thereof a matter of little labor;
-shift the plank about four feet from that portion already covered, and dump
-to right and left as before; enough should be brought on to give an even
-coating of from four to five inches, and it may be smoothed by a lawn rake,
-or a leveller made of one-inch board, about a foot and a half long, by three
-or four inches wide, with a rake handle fastened in the centre of the
-board.</p>
-
-<p>When the sand has been evenly spread over the bog, it is ready to be<span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</span>
-marked off. This is generally done by using an improvised rake or
-“marker,” made of a piece of 2 by 4 inch joist, seven to ten feet long,
-with white-oak teeth eight inches long, set eighteen inches apart, the whole
-finished with a handle for easy working. This rake is usually run parallel
-with some straight ditch, or along one side of a bog in a straight line, so
-that when set in vines it may present a uniform appearance. But as, in the
-case of corn, “more grows in crooked rows than straight ones,” this may be left
-to taste and convenience; again cross-marking at right angles, and you are ready
-for setting the vines.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb">
-
-<div class="blockquot fs80">
-<p class="right">
-<span class="smcap">Newport, R.I.</span>, Oct. 26, 1891.<br>
-</p>
-
-<p>I have used Bradley’s Fertilizer on my cranberry bog twice, and find a great improvement in
-checking the growth of moss, also in starting the vines. In fact, I think it made the vines
-grow too fast, or I may have put on too much. I can recommend it as a first-class Fertilizer.</p>
-
-<p class="right">
-H. B. RYDER,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
-17 Harvard Ave.<br>
-</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="tb">
-
-<div class="blockquot fs80">
-<p class="right">
-<span class="smcap">North Harwich, Mass.</span>, Oct. 19, 1891.<br>
-</p>
-
-<p>I have used Bradley’s Fertilizer on my cranberry bogs, both old and new, the past three or
-four years, with highly satisfactory results. It adds to the growth of new vines, so that they
-cover the ground quicker, and come into bearing one or two years earlier than they would were
-there no fertilizer applied.</p>
-
-<p>On my old vines the effect of this Fertilizer has been to kill out the moss (burn it up, to
-appearance), and to so renew the vines as to give them the look of a young bog.</p>
-
-<p class="right">
-JOHN E. RYDER.<br>
-</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</span></p>
-
-<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="image012" style="max-width: 62.5em;">
-  <img class="w100" src="images/image012.jpg" alt="">
-  <figcaption class="caption"><p class="center"><span class="smcap">View of Cranberry Bog owned by Capt. E. K. Crowell, Dennisport.</span></p></figcaption>
-</figure>
-
-<div class="blockquot fs80">
-<p class="right">
-<span class="smcap">Dennisport</span>, Mar. 2, 1892.<br>
-</p>
-
-<p>I have used Bradley’s Fertilizers for a number of years on cranberry vines, both old and new, with good and satisfactory
-results. The fruit will generally be larger and fairer where it is used, and used on young vines will cause them to spread and
-shade the ground, thus preventing as large a growth of weeds. I cheerfully recommend it to all cranberry growers.</p>
-
-<p>The foreground shows vines set in the spring of 1890; the background on the right new bearing bog, and on
-the left, a small showing of vines set in spring of 1891.</p>
-
-<p class="right">E. K. CROWELL.<br></p>
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_BEST_BERRY">THE BEST BERRY.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div>
-  <img class="drop-cap" src="images/t.jpg" width="31" height="35" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">
-There</span> is a wide division of opinion in regard to what is the best
-berry to grow; the shrewdest growers find that a selection of
-berries, running from the very early to the very late berry, gives the
-best returns when a series of years is taken into account.</p>
-
-<p>By common consent the purple-black berry, called “Early Black,” has
-been the favorite with both growers and consumers, as its handsome, rich
-coloring made it a good seller, while it is also a very prolific berry. It is
-a medium-hard berry, and for bogs which are liable to be infested with the fire,
-fruit, or span worm it seems preferable, as the bog can be kept under water
-until as late as the first or middle of June, and these berries will then, in an
-average season, ripen before frost. It is, however, pretty well conceded by
-many growers that this berry has been of great injury to the business as
-a whole, since it is one of the poorest of keepers, and, while affording profit
-for the time to the grower, has been of such loss to the “middleman,” as
-to render him unduly cautious of Cape Cod berries. This reputation which
-has attached itself to the Cape crop is wholly unwarranted by a careful and
-intelligent investigation of the many and various conditions which govern this,
-the most important feature of the whole business.</p>
-
-<p>The “A. D. Makepeace” berry is the outcome of a berry found by its
-namesake, the largest grower in this country, and gradually cultivated until<span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</span>
-it is conceded to be the largest early berry in the market, and as such
-commands a high price. It is of cherry shape, and rose-tinged purple in
-coloring. Illustration No. 1 is a fair example of the shape of this berry.</p>
-
-<p>The “James Anthony” is a very good variety of the second early berries, and
-by some considered among the best keepers of the medium-early berries.</p>
-
-<p>The “Bachelor” is a larger berry, and, like the “J. P. Howes,” proves to be
-a fair keeper and a salable berry, although the Howes is more even and regular
-in size.</p>
-
-<p>The “McFarland” is a dark-red, handsome berry, of large size, and a favorite
-with a few large growers.</p>
-
-<p>The “Bugle” or “Chipman” is an older berry, and one of the best keepers,
-but not as productive as some others.</p>
-
-<p>The six varieties mentioned are the most popular grown. Some others
-may have a local reputation, which time and attention will bring into favorable
-notice. Local conditions have much to do, however, with qualities in all cases.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb">
-
-<div class="blockquot fs80">
-<p class="right">
-<span class="smcap">Harwichport, Mass.</span>, Oct. 20, 1891.<br>
-</p>
-
-<p>I have used Bradley’s Fertilizer for a number of years on cranberries, both on newly set vines
-and old vines. I apply it broadcast, and I find it pays well. I can recommend it to be a good
-investment, causing more and larger fruit.</p>
-
-<p class="right">
-WATSON B. KELLEY.<br>
-</p>
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_PLANTING">THE PLANTING.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div>
-  <img class="drop-cap" src="images/t.jpg" width="31" height="35" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">
-The</span> Cranberry is propagated, through the means of vines which are
-procured from old bogs; they are cut or mowed off, preferably from
-vines not more than three or four years old. In sorting these cuttings,
-care should be taken to remove all the dead wood, and only the bright,
-clean cuttings used for planting. Most growers estimate five barrels of cuttings
-to the acre of bog, as they use from four to six cuttings in each setting.
-Some growers prefer taking runners twenty to thirty inches in length, and
-doubling them over at time of planting; but the former seems to be the
-generally adopted method.</p>
-
-<p>The usual method of planting is by using a “dibble,” or setting-blade,
-made from hard wood, although one of the shrewdest growers has recently
-adopted an implement consisting of an iron blade, with a cross-piece handle of
-wood. He claims that this is far preferable to any wooden instrument, and
-always readily presses through the sand, although it is not sharp enough to
-cut the vines.</p>
-
-<p>In planting, a bunch of four or six runners is placed upon the sand at
-every intersecting corner. This bunch is held in the left hand of the planter,
-while with his right hand he presses them into the sand by means of the
-“dibble,” so that they will reach through to the soil beneath, and when
-planted will not come above the surface more than two inches. The accompanying
-sketch shows the method of planting.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</span></p>
-
-<figure class="figcenter illowp85" id="image016" style="max-width: 62.5em;">
-  <img class="w100" src="images/image016.jpg" alt="">
-  <figcaption class="caption">
-
-<p>
-<span style="margin-left: -1em;">A A is the main ditch encircling the bog.</span><br>
-B B is the central ditch.<br>
-C C are the cross-ditches draining into main and central ditches.<br>
-D D are the lines made by the marker.<br>
-E E show points at which plants are set.<br>
-</p>
-</figcaption>
-</figure>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</span></p>
-
-<p>About two weeks after the cuttings are set, a small handful of Bradley’s
-Superphosphate should be scattered around each bunch of cuttings, as this will
-cause them to grow with great vigor, and so stimulate their growth that few if
-any of the cuttings will die; sometimes not one in a hundred will fail to make a
-flourishing set. It is a little more work, but advisable, to put the fertilizer in
-the hill, just under the sand.</p>
-
-<p>Some growers prefer, after the bog is planted, to keep the ground wet by
-damming back the water to within six or eight inches of the surface of the
-bog, and keeping it here until the vines give signs of having made some growth.
-The water is then let out of the ditches, and the vines take care of themselves
-through the ensuing season, unless it happens to be a particularly dry summer.
-If so, once or twice, through the dryest of the season, the water should be
-dammed back for a few days, and the vines receive the benefit of the irrigation.
-They will not need any further care during the first season, unless there
-is a growth of weeds, which should be effectually destroyed.</p>
-
-<p>A cleanly, well-kept bog is not only a beautiful sight, but is the foundation
-for large returns in the future; it requires no little care, during the first year
-or two, on the best of bogs to secure the proper money return, in order that
-the unavoidable outlay heretofore outlined may be rendered remunerative. Four
-hundred dollars per acre is no unusual amount to be expended in preparing a
-bog.</p>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="FERTILIZATION">FERTILIZATION.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div>
-  <img class="drop-cap" src="images/u.jpg" width="37" height="40" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">
-Until</span> within a few years the Cranberry bog has had to depend upon
-its own resources for fertilization, as it was popularly supposed that a
-bog contained all the necessary nutriment to feed the growing crop.
-Careful investigation by the most successful growers has led them to believe
-that, in common with every other farm crop, a larger crop of finer quality
-of fruit can be grown per acre, if a good commercial fertilizer is used upon the
-Cranberry. They therefore commence with the plant when set out, and scatter
-a small quantity of fertilizer around each plant in setting, as we have before
-suggested on page 17; and each year thereafter they sow broadcast over the
-bog from 200 to 400 pounds of Bradley’s Superphosphate to the acre. The
-result is that a larger crop of richer-colored berries is secured, which will more
-successfully withstand handling and shipping. The vines are also so stimulated
-that the crop ripens much earlier, and very often a saving of hundreds of dollars
-will be made, through the grower being able to gather the berries early in
-the season, before the frost comes.</p>
-
-<p>On old bogs, which are partially run out, the influence of a liberal dressing
-of Bradley’s Superphosphate is very marked, as it gives the vines a fresh supply
-of needed food, and brings ample returns the first season in largely increased
-crops of berries.</p>
-
-<p>So marked is this effect, that if any one having a Cranberry bog will fertilize<span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</span>
-a small section of it for one season, at the rate of 200 to 400 pounds of
-Bradley’s Phosphate to the acre, he will always use this fertilizer thereafter, as
-the results will readily prove that it will pay him liberally to do so.</p>
-
-<p>Another reason for fertilization is, that, through a liberal use of Bradley’s
-Superphosphate, the young plants attain that sturdy growth which enables them
-to withstand more successfully the attacks of the fire, fruit, and span worm,
-which flourish best upon weak plants.</p>
-
-<p>The common theory that a fertilizer is simply a stimulant, whose influence
-is of no permanent benefit, has been proved to be erroneous by the experiments
-of some of the largest growers, who, after having used Bradley’s Superphosphate,
-find that not only have they grown enormous crops of the best quality berries,
-but their bogs are annually in a better condition than their neighbors’ bogs
-which have not been fertilized, and from which only small or average crops of
-berries have been secured.</p>
-
-<p>By common consent, therefore, the leading growers are large users of Bradley’s
-Superphosphate, as they are convinced that its liberal use upon their bogs
-is repaid to them every season in increased crops of perfect fruit which commands
-the highest market price.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb">
-
-<div class="blockquot fs80">
-<p class="right">
-<span class="smcap">South Yarmouth, Mass.</span>, Oct. 22, 1891.<br>
-</p>
-
-<p>I have used the Bradley Fertilizer on newly set cranberry vines, and find it causes them to
-grow and spread more rapidly over a new bog.</p>
-
-<p class="right">
-JAMES F. SEARS.<br>
-</p>
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="CRANBERRY_ENEMIES">CRANBERRY ENEMIES.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div>
-  <img class="drop-cap" src="images/o.jpg" width="35" height="33" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">
-One</span> of the greatest enemies to successful Cranberry growing is one that
-can be easily conquered, but which is oftenest neglected; that is, the
-weeds and small bushes when they first appear. It is a comparatively
-easy matter under the more favorable conditions, during the three
-years before the bog comes to full bearing, to go over it once or twice during
-each season with a hoe, and clean out every weed and bush, no matter how
-small and insignificant it make look. But the grower often thinks that this
-is unnecessary labor, especially as he has put considerable money into the bog,
-and as yet has had no returns from his investment. If this work is neglected
-now, when the bog comes to fruiting there will be found, especially among
-the plants, quite an amount of injurious weeds and small bushes which
-increase rapidly from year to year, and finally kill out the bog. But if
-during the first three years they are steadily and systematically cut down, they
-become so thoroughly eradicated that a little going over the bog every spring
-will keep it in good condition for ten or fifteen years, with little trouble from
-either weeds or bushes.</p>
-
-<p>The cultivation of the Cranberry, ever since it has been cultivated for a
-crop, has been a practical exemplification of the advice of that eminent agriculturist,
-Horace Greeley, who, for the extermination of the Canadian thistle, recommended<span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</span>
-its “cultivation,” as then there would come plenty of enemies to
-accomplish its destruction.</p>
-
-<p>The fire, span, tip, and fruit worms rank in the order named as the most
-destructive,—the first two in the list blasting in a few hours an almost assured
-and abundant crop.</p>
-
-<p>The larger growers, after experimenting with perhaps all of the known
-insecticides, have most generally adopted some form of tobacco preparation,
-applied in solution in the form of a spray, upon the first indication of the
-approach of the fire-worm.</p>
-
-<p>So extensive is the use of tobacco, that one grower, Mr. Franklin Crocker,
-of Hyannis, treasurer of the South Sea Cranberry Company, who has probably
-given as much attention as any other grower to this branch of the business,
-informs us that for himself and others he purchased, in its various forms,
-over five thousand dollars’ worth of tobacco during the past two years, for this
-purpose. Mr. Crocker tells of his experience with tobacco in his letter on
-page 3 of cover.</p>
-
-<p>Many growers (not all) are able to resort to “Spring Flowage” as an
-effective and cheap remedy for fire-worms. That this is effective there can be
-no question, but in its application for destroying the worm it is injurious to
-the keeping quality of the fruit when gathered.</p>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_HARVEST">THE HARVEST.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div>
-  <img class="drop-cap" src="images/t.jpg" width="31" height="35" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">
-The</span> picking of berries commences about the first of September. They
-should be picked as soon as the greater part have put on a good, fair
-color. The great mistake in the past has been in allowing the berries
-to become over size. The trade has demanded <em>dark</em> berries, which made the
-Early Blacks so popular; but all that was gained in <em>color</em> was at the sacrifice of
-the keeping quality, to the injury of the grower and dealer.</p>
-
-<p>This is becoming so well recognized that “pick early” comes with the
-greater emphasis from all the larger dealers, who, by sad experiences, have
-become more interested in this particular feature than the grower, who,
-gathering his harvest of beautiful fruit, has also immediately gathered in the
-skekels, recognizing that “the best time to sell is right off the bog.”
-Thus has he “Sown to the Wind;” and while disaster has been delayed,
-its coming is manifest in the experience of the past season, when in
-some cases the crop has not paid expenses.</p>
-
-<p>An old receipt, “How to cook a hare,” began, “First catch the hare.”
-We have endeavored to tell you how to get the crop; and now, supposing
-you have this, we will give you an idea of how it is gathered, so far
-as may be of interest to the uninitiated: Lines are drawn across the bog,
-from eight to twenty feet apart, as a guide for keeping in place those pickers<span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</span>
-who incline otherwise to the right or left, as “spots” thick or thin allure
-or repel them in their eagerness “to fill the measure.” Then, placing as many
-pickers within the lines as can have sufficient “elbow room,” picking length-wise,
-they proceed to pick.</p>
-
-<p>An overseer is needed for every twenty-five pickers, to see that the
-work is properly done, each in his or her own place, and that all are picking
-clean from the vines, and from the “bottom;” that is, picking from the ground
-all scattering berries.</p>
-
-<p>Measures holding six quarts are the most convenient size, and the usual
-price is ten cents per measure, each picker using generally two measures
-and so saving time, as the berries must be carried to the “Tally.” The
-pickers are all known by numbers, and as they go to empty their measure
-they report “Number (5),” one or two measures, as the case may be, the
-Tally repeating each number and tally, as a precaution against mistakes.</p>
-
-<p>On some bogs checks are given thus: “Good for ten cents, South Sea
-Co., F. Crocker, Hyannis, Treas.;” and such checks are current coin during
-“Cranberry time” for supplies at the stores.</p>
-
-<p>Again, others provide themselves with a large amount of dimes, and so
-“pay off” as each measure is delivered. Berries, after being picked, should
-be put in slatted boxes holding about one bushel each, as being the most
-convenient size to handle, and then put away for at least twenty-four hours
-to cool off, as prevention against the almost immediate process of decay if
-this is not done.</p>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="BARRELLING">BARRELLING.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div>
-  <img class="drop-cap" src="images/a.jpg" width="50" height="42" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">
-After</span> being thoroughly cooled they are put in screens about ten feet
-long, three feet wide at the upper end, and six to eight inches at
-the lower end, from which, under the careful eye of an expert
-“screener,” they are “run” into a barrel set ready to receive them.</p>
-
-<p>Four or five screeners about each screen remove all trash and unsound
-berries, and sometimes the light-colored ones, which are held to “color up,”
-or packed separately and marked “Light.” As the barrels are being filled,
-they should be thoroughly shaken, at least three times; then, when the
-uninitiated packer thinks he has got the barrel full enough, it needs from
-four to six quarts more, when, with a screw, press the berries firmly
-down into the barrel. The barrels now properly headed and nailed, carry
-the berries in shape to command the highest price for which their grade may
-warrant. It <em>pays</em> to pack the fruit as <em>solid</em> as possible, since, whether sound
-or otherwise, a full barrel will <em>sell</em> when one lacking one inch or more of
-berries will command little attention.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb">
-
-<div class="blockquot fs80">
-<p class="right">
-<span class="smcap">West Harwich, Mass.</span>, Oct. 19, 1891.<br>
-</p>
-
-<p>In the spring of 1890 I bought an acre of cranberry bog that had been set about 30 years,
-and was so run down as to bear only about 10 barrels per year. I immediately applied 400
-pounds of Bradley’s Fertilizer, and received the first year a crop of 22 barrels.</p>
-
-<p>Last spring I applied 600 pounds of same Fertilizer, and have just gathered 40 barrels of nice
-berries, making an increase of 30 barrels a year on one acre by the use of Bradley’s Fertilizer, equal
-to 300 per cent. gain.</p>
-
-<p>Besides all this improvement in the crop, the Fertilizer has had the effect to renew the vines
-to such an extent as to give them the appearance of a new bog, while the moss, which was quite
-troublesome, has been wholly killed out. It is surprising to see how quick moss will begin to
-disappear where Bradley’s Fertilizer has been applied.</p>
-
-<p class="right">
-W. P. BAKER.<br>
-</p>
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_1891_CROP_IN_THE_NEW_ENGLAND_STATES">THE 1891 CROP IN THE NEW ENGLAND STATES.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div>
-  <img class="drop-cap" src="images/t.jpg" width="31" height="35" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">
-The</span> following comparative statement of the 1891 crop of Cranberries on
-Dec. 1, 1891, in the New England States, was compiled by Charles H.
-Nye, Esq., Superintendent Cape Cod Division, Old Colony Railroad,
-and allowing that 9,000 bushels may have been grown in Rhode Island and
-Connecticut, would make the 1891 crop about or quite 480,000 bushels.</p>
-
-<table class="autotable fs80">
-<tr>
-<td class="tdr bl bt"></td>
-<td class="tdc bt bl br bb" colspan="2">1890.</td>
-<td class="tdc bt br bb" colspan="2">1891.</td>
-<td class="tdc bt br">TO BE</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl bb">STATIONS SHIPPED FROM.</td>
-<td class="tdc bl bb">BARRELS.</td>
-<td class="tdc bl bb">BOXES.</td>
-<td class="tdc bl bb">BARRELS.</td>
-<td class="tdc bl bb">BOXES.</td>
-<td class="tdc bl br bb">SHIPPED.</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Rock</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1,879</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">993</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">3,420</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">296</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">South Middleboro</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">74</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">14</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">248</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">14</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Tremont</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">16,840</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">2,640</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">23,986</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">2,486</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br">200</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Marion</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">440</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">310</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">441</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">361</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Mattapoisett</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">175</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">63</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">215</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">688</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">South Wareham</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">416</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">90</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">516</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">269</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Wareham</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">14,919</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">4,870</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">18,125</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">4,743</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">East Wareham</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">2,223</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">203</td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Onset Junction</td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl">3,412</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">156</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br">300</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Buzzard’s Bay</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">33</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">127</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">223</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">130</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Monument Beach</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">229</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">147</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">550</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">18</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Wenaumet</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">37</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">31</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">103</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">97</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Cataumet</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1690</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">498</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">323</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">381</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">North Falmouth</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">655</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">711</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">753</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1,459</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">West Falmouth</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">164</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">11</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">90</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">15</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Falmouth</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1,997</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">872</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">4,085</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">3,281</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br">400</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Woods Holl</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">182</td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Bourne</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">859</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">83</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1,606</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">415</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Bournedale</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1,512</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">738</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1,160</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">654</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Sagamore</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">3,108</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1,343</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">4,589</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">971</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Sandwich</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">2,626</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">2,925</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">6,003</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">2,700</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br">1,000</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">West Barnstable</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">8,081</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1,804</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">12,599</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">2,174</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</span>Barnstable</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">399</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">9</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">383</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">14</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Yarmouth</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">2,943</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">990</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">5,373</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">673</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br">200</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Hyannis</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1,754</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">589</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">2,270</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">810</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br">1,000</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">South Yarmouth</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1,890</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">525</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">4,712</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">503</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">South Dennis</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">2,434</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">754</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">5,780</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">787</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">North Harwich</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">2,073</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">770</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">3,945</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1,257</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br">250</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Harwich</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">4,847</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">3,160</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">10,996</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">3,059</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">South Harwich</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">613</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">181</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">802</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">702</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">South Chatham</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">160</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">80</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">382</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">139</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Chatham</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">498</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">241</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">649</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">277</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Pleasant Lake</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1,244</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1,031</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1,369</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1,210</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Brewster</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">2,440</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">457</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">2,959</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">585</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Orleans</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">568</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">165</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1,218</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">164</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Eastham</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">104</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">36</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">137</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">132</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br">50</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">North Eastham</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">10</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">12</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">36</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">36</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">South Wellfleet</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">10</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">2</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">26</td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Wellfleet</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">80</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">55</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">67</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">20</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">South Truro</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">45</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">45</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">27</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">20</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Truro</td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl">88</td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">North Truro</td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl">8</td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl bb">Provincetown</td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb">146</td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb">61</td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb">57</td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb">5</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br bb"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Total shipments, barrels</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">79,006</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">27,646</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">123,737</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">31,761</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br">3,400</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl bb">Boxes reduced to barrels</td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb">9,215</td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb">10,587</td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl br bb"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Total number barrels</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">88,221</td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl">134,324</td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl br"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl bb">To be shipped</td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb">1,665</td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb">3,400</td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl br bb"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl bb">Total, Cape Cod Division</td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb">89,886</td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb">137,724</td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl bl bb br"></td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</span></p>
-<div class="chapter"></div>
-
-<p class="center fs120"><span class="smcap">Central Division, Old Colony Railroad.</span></p>
-
-<table class="autotable fs80">
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bt bl br"></td>
-<td class="tdc bt bb">1890.</td>
-<td class="tdc bt bl br bb" colspan="2">1891.</td>
-<td class="tdc bt br">TOTAL</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl bb">STATIONS SHIPPED FROM.</td>
-<td class="tdc bl bb">BOXES.</td>
-<td class="tdc bl bb">BARRELS.</td>
-<td class="tdc bl bb">BOXES.</td>
-<td class="tdc bl br bb">BARRELS.</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Plymouth</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">11,232</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">11,194</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">980</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br">11,521</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Plympton</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1,418</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1,964</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">589</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br">2,160</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">South Hanson</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">660</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">665</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">16</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br">670</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Middleboro’</td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl">2,045</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">1,038</td>
-<td class="tdr bl br">2,391</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">North Easton</td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl">300</td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl br">300</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Taunton</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">240</td>
-<td class="tdr bl">232</td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl br">232</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Mansfield</td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl">182</td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl br">182</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl bb">Attleboro’</td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb">240</td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb">528</td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl br bb">528</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">Central Division</td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl br">17,984</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl bb">Martha’s Vineyard</td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl br bb">1,308</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Total number barrels</td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl br">19,292</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl bb">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Add Cape Cod Division</td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl br bb">137,724</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Total number barrels</td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl br">157,016</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl bl bb">Or 471,048 bushels.</td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl bb"></td>
-<td class="tdr bl br bb"></td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_1891_CROP_OF_THE_UNITED_STATES">THE 1891 CROP OF THE UNITED STATES.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div>
-  <img class="drop-cap" src="images/m.jpg" width="35" height="28" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">
-Mr. A. J. Rider</span>, Secretary of the American Cranberry Growers’
-Association, estimates the entire crop of Cranberries grown in 1891
-as follows:</p>
-
-<table class="autotable">
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">New England</td>
-<td class="tdrx">480,000</td>
-<td class="tdl">bush.</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">New Jersey</td>
-<td class="tdrx">250,000</td>
-<td class="tdl">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">The West</td>
-<td class="tdrx bb">30,000</td>
-<td class="tdl">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdr">Total</td>
-<td class="tdrx">760,000</td>
-<td class="tdl">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-
-<p><span style="margin-left: -1em;">Showing that the crop for the entire country was short 100,000 bushels,</span>
-when compared with the 1890 crop.</p>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_FERTILIZER_FOR_CRANBERRIES">THE FERTILIZER FOR CRANBERRIES.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div>
-  <img class="drop-cap" src="images/b.jpg" width="25" height="35" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">
-Bradley’s Superphosphate</span>, “the old reliable,” has been successfully
-used in the cultivation of Cranberries for many years past.</p>
-
-<p>It is, as every one knows, the best general fertilizer on the market.
-By <em>practical experience</em>, and not by fallacious (though plausible) <em>theories</em>,
-it has demonstrated its entire fitness for growing the best Cranberries and producing
-the largest crops. It has been repeatedly noticed that Cranberries grown
-on this fertilizer are more highly colored, harder, and better “keepers” than
-those raised under ordinary conditions of cultivation.</p>
-
-<p>As Bradley’s Phosphate contains the very choicest quality of plant foods
-in such forms and proportions as long practical experience has demonstrated will
-most fully satisfy the demands of the crop for a complete and nutritious fertilizer,
-it wholly meets the requirements of the Cranberry, as has been abundantly
-proven by exhaustive tests on the largest bogs.</p>
-
-<p>A “Special Fertilizer” for Cranberries, claimed to be “based on their
-analysis,” may be taking with some; but this is only an <em>idea</em>,—a <em>theory</em>
-without <em>practice</em> to support it, an advertising dodge to catch the uninitiated.
-The theory of feeding plants on this basis was exploded long ago both at
-home and abroad; and while formerly one manufacturer of “Special Fertilizers”<span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</span>
-advertised twenty-four special crop formulas, he now sells but ten, and the
-analyses of these are totally different from the original formulas which were
-represented as accurate demonstrations of the “discovery,” so called.</p>
-
-<p>Professor Johnson, Director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station,
-and one of the best authorities on agricultural chemistry of this country,
-has said: “<em>In honest truth, there is no possibility of compounding special fertilizers
-adapted to each of our various crops, nor even to our various classes of crops.
-Special manures for particular crops are, in fact, least heard of where agriculture
-is guided by the clearest light of science and the widest range of experience.</em>”</p>
-
-<p>Professor Atwater, recently Director of the Experiment Stations of the
-United States at Washington, has stated: “<em>There is no best fertilizer for any
-crop, and the formulas to fit all cases are out of the question.</em>” So do not
-be caught by this <em>theory</em> snare, and pay four or five dollars a ton extra on
-your fertilizer for that “idea.”</p>
-
-<p>Bradley’s Superphosphate has stood the test of nearly thirty years, and
-its sales are far greater than that of any other fertilizer on the market. It is
-the acknowledged <em>Standard</em>, so recognized by its strongest competitors, whose
-favorite argument is that their fertilizer is “equal to Bradley’s.” “There
-are tricks in all trades,” but no trick can undermine the stability of an
-article so universally recognized as the <em>standard of excellence</em> in its class as
-Bradley’s Phosphate.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</span></p>
-
-<p>The following letter may serve to answer inquiries about “<em>Insecticide</em>.”</p>
-
-<div class="blockquot fs80">
-<p class="right">
-<span class="smcap">Hyannis, Mass.</span>, Feb. 22, 1892.<br>
-</p>
-
-<p>In regard to tobacco as an insecticide, I submit the following: Tobacco solution is
-prepared by steeping tobacco stems in warm water, using from one and a half to two pounds
-of stems to a gallon of water, according to strength of stems in the nicotine principle. So
-far, the larger growers prefer the stems from the Missouri-river region, and for this purpose I
-ordered six car-loads last Saturday from that section for the use of growers the coming season.</p>
-
-<p>Of the solution, when prepared, it takes about one gallon to a square rod, applied in the
-form of a spray as fine as possible. For this purpose the “Nixon Pump” is the most effective
-among the many that I have ever tested. The application should be made upon the first
-appearance of the worms; any delay resulting often in entire loss of crop, since nothing but
-flowage will kill the larger worms. Another and more convenient solution is obtained from Hill’s
-Extract of Tobacco—two or three quarts to a barrel of water. This requires no heating, and
-may be prepared at a moment’s notice. My sales last year of this Extract amounted to over
-eight hundred gallons.</p>
-
-<p class="center">Respectfully yours,</p>
-<p class="right">FRANKLIN CROCKER.</p>
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-
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