. Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. s and spiraeas. It is believed that byproper management these lands may be made to yield a hand-some profit to their owners, and furnish employment to a largenumber of people. At the present time these lands are, for the most part, con-sidered as public property, and irresponsible parties, recognizingthe fact that the blueberry crop is more abundant on youngbushes which spring up after a fire, recklessly burn over vastareas and destroy valuable forests for their own selfish gain. lRe] M m id Agr- Exp. Sta- 189S, 170 HORTICULTURAL ST
. Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. s and spiraeas. It is believed that byproper management these lands may be made to yield a hand-some profit to their owners, and furnish employment to a largenumber of people. At the present time these lands are, for the most part, con-sidered as public property, and irresponsible parties, recognizingthe fact that the blueberry crop is more abundant on youngbushes which spring up after a fire, recklessly burn over vastareas and destroy valuable forests for their own selfish gain. lRe] M m id Agr- Exp. Sta- 189S, 170 HORTICULTURAL STATUS OF THE GENUS VACCINIUM. 125 Although very large quantities of fruit are gathered through-out the northern and Atlantic states, the industry has been morenearly systematized in New England than elsewhere. Onewriter in 1887 states1 that he ships an average of 1,000 bushelsa year from his farm in New Hampshire and as many more forhis neighbors. He estimates that on one branch of the Boston& Maine Railroad as many as 20,000 bushels are THE BLUEBERRY BARRENS. In the southeastern part of Maine, there are about 150,000acres known as the blueberry barrens. Much of this landwas burned over by the Indians before the colonial period andsince the removal of the timber from the remainder, it too hasbeen repeatedly burned to keep down the growth of birches andalders, and to facilitate the harvesting of the fruit. About 40,000 acres of the barrens belong to Mr. WilliamFreeman of Cherryfield, Maine, who may properly be regardedas the pioneer in the blueberry industry of America. After longand bitter litigation he proved beyond question his right tocharge royalty for all fruit gathered on his lands and estab-lished a systematic method of treatment which is applicable,under most conditions, everywhere. The method is somewhatas follows: 1 Country Gentleman, 1S87, 565. I2fi MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION*. IQOI. The land is divided into several tracts, each of which i
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