. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. /ar of Rebellion (Continued from Page 10) ilmost a sure one. In favorable seasons this crop pays the owner setter than any other crop he can raise. Thus it appears certain this istern portion of Wisconsin was wake to the profits of cranberry altivation by the beginning of the ar, and there was a splurge of dying up of natural cranberry larshes. The size of these natural larshes was far beyond any of lose of Cape Cod. Again on No- jmber 14, the Courant told that market was being provided for leae Wisconsin berries in the lo- ll groc
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. /ar of Rebellion (Continued from Page 10) ilmost a sure one. In favorable seasons this crop pays the owner setter than any other crop he can raise. Thus it appears certain this istern portion of Wisconsin was wake to the profits of cranberry altivation by the beginning of the ar, and there was a splurge of dying up of natural cranberry larshes. The size of these natural larshes was far beyond any of lose of Cape Cod. Again on No- jmber 14, the Courant told that market was being provided for leae Wisconsin berries in the lo- ll grocery stores, reporting: LARGE SHIPMENTS OF oRANBERRIES—R e e s e and Williams (a general store) ship- ped la&t week to Chicago over 500 bushels of cranberries which they had taken in during the past few weeks. Local groceries, then, or at least lis one, were acting as wholesale ranberry buyers and then re-sell- ig the fruit. A writer in the (ew England Farmer that fall de- lared cranberries were selling at rom $10 to $20 a barrel. A Cape Cod Farmers' Club, /hich had been recently formed, iscussed cranberry cultivation, nd its swelling possibilities. Dr. eorge Shove, an early grower of 'armouth, exhibited berries and he group "visited the cranberry ilantations of Solomon Hinkley at lummaquid and others in the vi- :inity". FOR SALE Cranberry land. Approximate acreage: bearing, 6; unim- proved bog, 15; pasture, 50. Sheds, machinery, equipment, irrigation system, small house. Eugene Atkinson Sandlake, Oregon If newspaper readers of Cape Cod carefully scanned their Pat- riot, issue of June 30, 1862 an ad- vertisement must have struck at least a spark of interest. This ad told them that stock was available through the Peshtigo Company, a corporate body of Green Bay, Wis- consin, in the development of a natural cranberry marsh in Oconto County, the marsh c-omprising about 1,000 acres, and its crop for the previous season had been esti- mated at 30,000 bushels of cran- b
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