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Identifier: capecodoldcolony1921brig (find matches)
Title: Cape Cod and the Old colony
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Brigham, Albert Perry, 1855-1932
Subjects: Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) Cape Cod (Mass.)
Publisher: New York and London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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d the vicissi-tudes of the market, he may well hesitateuntil sure he has the capital, the intelligence,and the intrepidity which any other worth-while enterprise demands. After the cranberry comes the strawberry, aremote second in acres and dollars and yet notto be forgotten. They are early—a June cropon the Cape, opening the small fruit season asthe cranberry closes it, and flourishing on thehigh and dry ground, where the tangled matand brilliant round berries of the hog cran-berry might thrive, but where the thanksgiv-ing fruit could not grow. Both berries there-fore show a definite response to soil conditions.There is enough upland bearing a light loamcover to raise in Barnstable County, straw-berries for all New England. As yet, however, there is, in a large commer-cial way, but one strawberry town and that isFalmouth. And there is but one strawberryraiser, the Portugee. Seventy-three car-loads of this fruit were shipped from the freightdepot of Falmouth village in the summer of
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On the Land 157 1919. This will mean more if we say that twoto three hundred crates make a carload, andthat a crate may hold from thirty-two to sixtyquarts. Striking an average and doing a bitof multiplying, it comes out that somewherenear a million quarts of berries went to Bostonand other markets. This is an achievement of about ten years,by newly immigrated men and women, andlet it be added, by the rather nimierous chil-dren that count in every Portuguese family.It is a story of family toil, of oak scrub, grub-bing, burning, plowing, planting, fertilizingand cultivation. The fields are clean, the rowsare straight and the plants are deep green andstrong, and in them a new phase has beenwelded into the industrial life of the Cape. The Portuguese have not forgotten the rasp-berry, and the bright red of this fruit finds itsway out of Falmouth to the amount of fiftycrates per day in the picking season. Thelittle plantations are not without com andbeans for home consumption, and the thri

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