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GETTING SAUCE READY
FOR THE TURKEY TIME.
A Million Bushels of Cranberries
Now Being Harvested.
LIVELY TIMES ON GAPE OOD.
The Rapid Growth of Cranberry Culture,
How the Fruit Has Been Introduced In
Faraway Markets —Some Details of the
Business.
Ho, for the bird and the berry! The
Rhode Island turkeys are being fatten
ed and the Cape Cod folks are picking
cranberries. I haven’t heard the latest
turkey statistics, but we are assured
that the cranberry yield is a big one. So
let Thanksgiving come along, for at
least one essential of the “trimmings”
thereof is assured.
Just now the picking of the piquant,
scarlet berries of the bog is at its height
It will not do to leave the fruit on the
vines much after the last of October,
and besides the berries must be distrib
uted to distant markets in good time for
the great fall holiday. Perhaps you do
not .realize what an appetite .ye have
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for cranberries. Well, ■We raise Over
1,000,000 bushels each year and con
sume most of them ourselves. If the
whole yield should be made into pies,
there would be a pie apiece for every
inhabitant of the Union and a few mil
lions to distribute among our Canadian
neighbors.
Cranberry culture is one of those in
dustries which has had a phenomenal
growth within the last decade or so.
There was a time when only New Eng
landers appreciated cranberries, and
they got their liking for' them from the
pilgrim fathers, who in turn learned
from the Indians that the little red
swamp berries which ripened late were
“goode to eat as well as fair to see. ”
It was not until about 1835 that any
attention was given to the cultivation
of cranberries. Before' that they were
gathered from the vines which grew
wild in many places along the Atlantic
coast. The New Englanders found such
a big demand for. the few berries which
werfe gathered iqi . this haphazard man
ner that they .'began their ■ systematic
cultivation. A few years later the shore
dwellers in southern New Jersey learned
of this bit of Yankee enterprise and be
gan to imitate it. Later still a wanderer
from New England tried the experiment
in Wisconsin, where he planted some
cranberry vines in a sandy marsh along
the lake shore. He was successful, and
many others tried it.
Along in the sixties the New England
and New Jersey fanners recognized that
the cranberry crop was a most profitable
one, and when cranberries reached SSO a
barrel there was a stampede. In New
Jersey especially the craze for planting
cranberry bogs raged fiercely. - Swamp
land which had been considered practi
nallv worth lew grew in value quicke-
A sick man is like a
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the mercy of totally
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uncertain. No organ can be depended on
to do its normal work. The stomach will
not digest food; the liver will not filter bil
ious poisons from the blood; the kidneys
and skin will not excrete the waste. No
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going on. There is no certainty except the
certainty of suffering.
In all dyspeptic, bilious, debilitated con
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normal, erratic operations of the system
into a natural, regular, straightforward pro
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as Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery.
It directly regulates the vitalizing func
tions. It sets the stomach and liver into
natural, healthy -operation and gives the
blood-making glands power to manufacture
an abundance of pure, rich blood.
It creates appetite; builds up muscular
strength, and banishes nervousness and
neuralgia. As it can be assimilated by the
weakest stomach, its nourishing properties
are far superior to nauseating cod liver oil
in severe coughs and all wasting diseases.
The druggist who recommends something
else as “just as good ” is thinking more of
his extra profit on the “just as good ” kind
than of your welfare.
than corner lots in a western boom
town. Inland farmers sold out their fer
tile acres at a sacrifice and moved to the*
coast, where they invested the savings
of years. They knew that an acre of
good bog land would yield from 50 to
100 bushels, and with the prevailing
high prices for cranberries it was easy
enough to figure out how a big fortune
could easily and surely be made. Land
that could have been bought for $5 an
acre before the craze set in was sold as
high as SI,OOO an acre and at all sorts
of prices below that figure.
The result was that in a few years,
when many big bogs had been brought
to the bearing point and after an unus
ually large yield had been gathered,
there was a glut of cranberries. Prices
went as low as $2 a bushel, which did
not much more than pay for the pick
ing, packing and shipping. Next season
thousands of bushels of cranberries were
allowed to rot on the vines.
Then the cranberry growers got to
gether and formed a national alliance
They decided that radical measures
must be taken or else the fortunes which
they had put into bogs would be sunk
there beyond all recovery. With Yan
kee shrewdness they concluded that the
first thing to be done was to broaden
their market. At that time the people
of the middle and western states —the
majority of them, at least—knew not
of the cranberry. The growers under
took the introduction of the fruit in
these sections in a businesslike manner.
They raised a big fund and sent agents
all through the west. In Chicago hun
dreds of bushels of cranberries were
cooked and given away. Similar meth
ods were followed in other large cities.
The method proved to be successful
Slowly the demand increased until the
market recovered. Cranberries have
never sold for SSO a barrel since, but
they have seldom if ever dropped as low
as $2. Still the danger of a glutted
market had not been entirely removed,
and along in 1892 a systematic effort
was made to introduce cranberries to
the English. A wide awake propagan
dist from New Jersey opened the cam
paign in Liverpool by supplying the
leading hotels and restaurants with the
new American delicacy and teaching
the chefs how to cook the berries. It
was not long before the restaurants
hung out signs reading, “American
crannemes served today." timer cities
in the United Kingdom were visited
with like results. Cranberry literature,
giving carefully prepared receipts for
cooking the berries in a variety of ways,
was distributed broadcast and dealers
were supplied with bags on which were
printed directions for using cranberries.
To this energetic attack the British
public yielded, and now’ there is a stead
ily- increasing demand for American
cranberries in Great Britain. Similar
methods are now being followed in
Germany, Denmark, Norway and Swe
den, and the cranberry growers look for
ward to the time when half the world
will turn to them for sauce.
In preparing a cranberry bog for cul
tivation swamp land along a salt creek
is selected. The black top soil is re-
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moved and clean sand spread over the
surface to the depth of six inches or
more. The vines are planted in the
sand. It is necessary that the bog
should be submerged several times a
year, so dams and sluice gates some
times have to be built. Unlike other
fruit vines, the cranberry needs no fer
tilization, and once properly started a
bog requires little care.
The picking begins late in August
and sometimes continues into Novem
ber. Down on Cape Cod the cranberry
season is the liveliest part of the year.
From the villages and farms all through
Barnstable county the boys and girls
flock to the bogs and work all through
the golden September and October days
harvesting the crop. Whole families
grasp the opportunity to make a- few
extra dollars. Jimmy hopes to get a bi
cycle out of the season’s work, his big
sister expects to pick a new dress off the
vines, while pa and ma mean to earn
enough to pay the expenses of a holiday
trip to Boston, where they will visit
Brother John and his folks.
But there are hundreds of acres of
cranberry bogs and not a great many
folks on Cape Cod, so the natives can
not do all the work. Some of the big
growers bring French Canadians from
the mill towns, others hire Portuguese
from New Haven, and not a few Mic
mac Indians swell the ranks of the
pickers.
The bogs are divided off into sections
by lines tied to stakes. These sections
are called alleys, and from two to three
pickers are assigned to an alley. This is
so that the pickers may have a definite
territory to work in and thus pick the
vines clean. It is back breaking work
for a beginner and hard on the fingers.
As the vines lie almost flat on the
ground the pickers must get down on
their hands and knees, and in this po
sition they work for hours at a time.
The wanes naid pjpkers V »rv with the
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size of the crop and the number (St pick
ers available, but is about
SO cents a bushel. At this scale pickers
can make from $1 to $2 a day, and
some expert pickers can make even
more. At this time of the year the
marshes are fairly dry, and it is pleas
ant to be out on the bogs.
On the Jersey bogs down around
Toms River a great many Italians and
tramps are employed during the picking
season as well as hundreds of natives of
the “pine belt.” The Italians live in
barns or build for themselves pictur
esque shanties of brush. The New Jer
sey bogs are much larger and there are
more of them than on Cape Cod, conse
quently more cranberries are raised
there. How is it, then, you are proba
bly wondering, that you never see any
but Cape Cod cranberries advertised for
sale? That is one of the tricks of the
trade.
The Cape Cod cranberries grow on
vines which have comparatively few
leaves and when ripe are a rich, dark
red. The New Jersey bogs are richer
and the cranberry vines there have a
much heavier foliage, so that the sun
does not get a chance to color the fruit,
but the New England product will not
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keep so long as will the Jersey berries,
and the growers of the latter, although
they cannot get the high prices paid
for the Massachusetts variety, have a
longer selling season. They have learn
ed, too, to ripen their fruit by spread
ing it in the sun after picking and,
through the courtesy of the conscience
less middleman, market their berries as
the genuine Cape Cod article.
So the cranberries which you carry
home with your Thanksgiving turkey,
although the retailer has assured you
that they are “ right from the Cape,”
may have been grown on the New Jer
sey coast or along the shores of Lake
Michigan, but they will probably taste
just as well as if they came from the
heart of Yankeedom.
Sewell Ford.
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Special Excursion To| Nashville, Account
Tennessee Centennial. Oct 20.
On October 20th, the Southern rail
way will sell special excursion tickets
to Nashville, Tenn., and return at
the following very low rates tor the
round trip:
Plainvill, $3.25; North Rome, $3.45;
Rome, $3 45; Lindale, $3.55; Silver
Creek, $3.55; Chambers. $3.55; Seney,
$3.70; Rockmart, $3.75; Braswell,
$3.75; Dallas, $3.75; Hiram, $3.75;
Powder Springe, $3.75; Austell, $3.75;
Mableton, $3.75; Nickajack. $3 75;
Chattahoochee, $3.75.
Tickets will be sold on October 20th
only, limited to return five days from
date of sale.
This will be the last opportunity
parties will have to visit the centen
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attractions will be grander this month
than at any previous time, everyone
should endeavor to attend.
Call on any ticket agent of the
Southern Railway for further infor
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