My remarks on "Profits of Small Fruits" would not be complete without referring to the cultivation of cranberries, which is a very profitable branch of small fruit culture, where the soil is adapted to their growth - and must eventually assume proportions and importance scarcely second to any other fruit crop grown in the State of New Jersey. We have thousands of acres unavailable for other purposes, but specially adapted to producing cranberries.

Low, marshy lands, and old ponds that can be drained and flooded again at pleasure, which in their natural state would not be valued at more than ten to twenty dollars per acre, after being cleared and planted, will often yield two to three hundred dollars per acre in cranberries annually, and sometimes more.

A fruit grower in Burlington county recently cleared up and planted twenty acres of moist land, which five years since was valued at five dollars per acre. Last year he had two acres in full bearing and eighteen acres only two years old; yet he realised from the cranberries grown there, a net profit of three thousand and two hundred dollars.

Another farmer and his sons, residing near by, have two hundred acres planted with cranberries - about one-third of which are in fruiting and yielded last year 3,300 bushels of fruit, worth over $13,000. Six acres of which averaged one hundred bushels per acre, and were sold at four dollars per bushel.

Another farmer in the same county had, in 1869, twenty-four acres in fruiting; six and a-half in the tenth year of bearing, and seventeen and a-half in the first year of good bearing - which yielded 2,692 bushels of cranberries, and sold at three and a-half dollars per bushel, brought $9,422; and after deducting $2,222 for expenses, taxes, superintendence and commissions, left a net profit of seven thousand and two hundred dollars on the twenty-four acres ! Averaging three hundred dollars per acre.

The six and a-half acres in the prime of bearing yielded more bushels of fruit than the seventeen and a-half acres just commencing.

The Forge Company, near West creek, in Ocean county, N. J., have about one hundred acres planted, fifty of which were in fruiting the past season, and yielded 3,400 bushels of cranberries, worth, at four dollars per bushel, $13,600. Three-eighths of said tract was recently sold at one thousand dollars per acre.

I might mention the names of those parties, if necessary, but the object in referring to them was merely to enforce the principles and facts illustrated by their successful operations, which many others are pursuing; and hundreds of acres are annually being redeemed from a primitive, unproductive condition, and devoted to cranberry culture.

There are now in New Jersey about two thousand acres in fruiting, and produced last year 150,000 bushels of cranberries - and 4,000 acres more land have been prepared and planted and will be in fruiting hereafter. New Jersey now supplies more than two-thirds of the whole amount of cultivated cranberries marketed in the United States.

The late reports by the Agricultural bureau at Washington, for the year 1869, gives as follows, viz: to the was derived principally from cultivated fields. All other States and Territories, including wild and cultivated cranberries, produce about 14,000 barrels; making a total of 75,000 barrels for the year 1869. The crop for 1867 was estimated at 62,-000 barrels, of which New Jersey produced 35,000; New England about 12,000, and the West 15,500 barrels. The average price for 1867 was $16 per barrel - giving a total value of one million dollars for the crop that year. The crop of 1869 commenced to sell at picking time, in Philadelphia, for nine dollars per barrel, and gradually advanced in price until spring, when the market value was twenty-four to twenty-six dollars per barrel! One grower in Burlington county, it is reported, sold a lot of six hundred barrels for fifteen thousand dollars.

The price of cranberries during the present winter has been about twelve dollars per barrel in Philadelphia.

For seven years, from 1862 to 1869, the price ranged from fourteen to fifteen dollars per barrel, except in 1868, when the price was from twenty-two to twenty-four dollars per barrel, owing to the light crop.

The counties of Burlington and Ocean yield the greater part of the cranberries grown in our State; and in 1869 they produced 31,700 barrels; and all other counties in the State yield 18,300 barrels. The yield of cranberries last year was not so large per acre as in 1869, on account of excessive rains, with intervals of intensely hot sun during the time of blooming. But the quantity of land in fruiting was more so that the yield for Burlington and Ocean counties amounted to 38,300 barrels, and the State producing about the same as in 1869 - say 50,000 barrels - which, at the present value, gives $600,000.

In embarking in the cranberry business, one of the most important matters is the selection of suitable land. The most productive cranberry region in the State is a belt of land underlaid with white sand, much of it pure silex, the upland covered with pine and scrub oak, the lowland and borders of streams with white cedar and an undergrowth of whortleberry burshes. The soil is light, a thin coat of vegetable mold covering the surface. The climate as well as the soil of this part of New Jersey is well adapted to the cultivation of this vine in the highest perfection.

The picking is usually done by men, women and chidren, at a cost of about fifty cents per bushel; many of the hands will gather three to four bushels each per day.

In sections of the country where strawberries, raspberries and blackberries are extensively grown, a good portion of the pickers come from the rural or cranberry districts, commencing with strawberries in June, and after finishing them, enter the raspberry fields in July, and in August the blackberries are gathered; after which they return home in time to commence in the cranberry fields in October, and frequently have steady work there until cold weather, thus having a long continuous harvest. Such of them as are industrious and frugal, may soon provide homes for themselves, and become proprietors of berry fields, and in turn give employment to others who are pursuing the same course of honest industry - a sure passport to wealth and competence.