Cape Cod, new & old . red quarts — in a dayearned ten dollars, and made, besides, a rec-ord that was not forgotten until it was ex-celled. That was when all the picking was done byhand, and was paid for at the rate of_ten centsa measure. Now the picking is doneJby_theaid of a scoop, and one can get a hundredmeasures much more quickly; but he willonly get paid six or seven cents a measure —so the advantage and disadvantage run quiteevenly. There are still towns on the Cape where thenoon hour is a picnic and the whole cranberryseason partakes of the nature of a festival. Butevery year they are f
Cape Cod, new & old . red quarts — in a dayearned ten dollars, and made, besides, a rec-ord that was not forgotten until it was ex-celled. That was when all the picking was done byhand, and was paid for at the rate of_ten centsa measure. Now the picking is doneJby_theaid of a scoop, and one can get a hundredmeasures much more quickly; but he willonly get paid six or seven cents a measure —so the advantage and disadvantage run quiteevenly. There are still towns on the Cape where thenoon hour is a picnic and the whole cranberryseason partakes of the nature of a festival. Butevery year they are fewer. The ever-industri-ous Portuguese are^ood pickers^ natives, however, who came as much forthe fun as for the money, feel that cranberry-ing is no longer a family affair. One cannot _ . \.,.-r- -^ -^, -^-.^ ^ f^ .-—-:_ tCJCKr.^-:, .^ C ~ J-T-- -, - ^ ^V-i^ 1 ^=r- ^ ?^- - ^ *c^,^ -j^: /- 1 .^^ \^ ? P -^ •^/ ? -«*a^. ^^ ?- ^ ^i4g^ ^ ^^^ -*Ua^ ^^Ig* gffe^^j Si gl^PW JBB^ ,^J,^ v^§ ^^^pSs. >OJAt*A^ INDUSTRIES IN DENNIS 85 picnic with the same freedom with strangersas one did with friends. But the industry continues, although thesociabihty is gone. The cranberry flourishes,and will probably continue to do so as long aswe gather around the Thanksgiving table witha turkey imperatively demanding this partic-ular condiment. One cannot leave Dennis without a mentionof that other source of income which is evenmore lucrative than the cranberry — the sum-mer people. The whole Cape is gradually be-coming the recreation portion of New Eng-land. The balmy air, the warm^ltwater, thehealthfulness and the quaint atmosphere ofboth the landscape and the architecture willalways be worth a cash return to the citydwellers. And where summer people go theycreate a different set of standards —? somegood and some bad. It is stimulating to thenatives of a seashore place to come in contactwith people from the outer world. The wayin which the country homesteads bloomed outw
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