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Lake, iQ the town of Nonvay, lam told, more than 150 bushels have been 

 picked by hand the past season — a boy being able to gather with his hands two 

 bushels a day, for which he receives twenty-five cents a bushel, as his share in 

 the crop. Cultivated cranberries are gathered by means of iron wire rakes, with 

 which a man can get forty bushels a day. These Wind Lake Cranberries are 

 decidedly the finest that were ever brought to this market. They sold in Ro- 

 chester, not far from where they grew, at $1 50 per bushel, and in Racine, 23 

 miles distant, at $2. On wet land, they can be propagated by being sown 

 broad-cast; and on a di'ier soil, they may be cultivated from the plants, in drills 

 sixteen to twenty inches apart. They should be well weeded the first year, 

 but will need less attention the second; and on the third, they usually spi'ead 

 over the ground so as to protect themselves — bearing you a crop of fruit to 

 reward vou for vour time and trouble. 150 bushels to the acre, would be a 

 moderate yield for cultivated cranberries; and the expense of cultivation, in the 

 long run, would be less than for almost any other crop. I am among those who 

 esteem the cranberry, for sauce, jellies and tarts, one of the very best fruits we 

 have. The}' can be saved, perfect and fresh, for as long a period as the apple; 

 and are more easily prepared for the table, on an emergency. 



Grass and Hay. — Dr. Hoy remarks, that the " last two seasons have abun- 

 dantly proved that the prairies [of this region] produce timothy, clover, and red- 

 top, as well as the best timbered districts for grazing," and, I may add, for grass 

 lands generally. Being now assured of this fact, our farmere are very generally 

 turning their attention to the rearing of stock, and to the curing of hay from 

 cultivated grasses, for expoi'tation as well as for home consumption. Until 

 recently, abundance of upland prairie hay, some of it nearly equal to timothy, 

 could 15e readily and cheaply made by every one who might need it; hence the 

 cultivation of the tame grasses was neglected. But since a large proportion of 

 the country has now become occupied, and very much of it already passed 

 under the plough, the necessity of cultivating grasses has become imperative, 

 and large fields are yearly being ceded to timothy and clover, principally the 

 former; m wet ground, however, red-top is found to thrive best. Hay is 

 becomincr an article of commerce with us. Some of our farmers, near this city, 

 pressed, baled, and shipped abroad, 250 tons during the past season. 



Grass Seed. — Many are devoting a good deal of care to the cultivation of 

 grass seed. Some 5,000 bushels was saved the past season in this county; 

 and 340 bushels was the amount of our exports of that article for 1851. From 

 160 acres ceded to timothy in the townof Yorkville, in this county, the entire 

 crop of grass was cut and thrashed ; the yield of seed was over \\ bushels to the 

 acre — giving an aggregate of 720 bushels. The hay, however, is much damaged 

 in the process of thrashing out the seed, but was worth at least %\ per ton ; 



