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spoonfuls of molasses ; one table-spoonful of dry powdered hop 

 yeast, mixed with water, and left to rise two hours. It was 

 then baked in a brick oveu ten hours. 



Cranberries. 



Mrs. R. K. Goodenow, Paris, showed fruit grown on soil from 

 which the turf had been taken, plowed, and one-half inch sand 

 applied, and kept free from weeds. 



John Mead, South Bridgton, showed cranberries grown on 

 moist upland soil, with some granite stones upon it. About three 

 inches on top of black mould, then gravelly or sandy about two 

 feet lower. The vines originally came in the mowing ground, 

 of themselves. About eight years ago we plowed the ground 

 where they then greic, turning the vines over; then cut the turf 

 to pieces and carried to the grass land where we wanted them, 

 and set them into the wet places, just putting them in right 

 side up without any further care. Cost of setting them out not 

 over fifty cents. t 



N. B. -They were planted on run-out mowing land, and have 

 had no manure only what the water has carried on. 



John T. Davis, Biddeford, states — that the marsh upon which 

 liis cranberries grew, was purchased by him about three years 

 ago. It was then wild. I put a dike around it, and cut out 

 the bushes, and then put sand on it, and flowed it three times 

 a year. The first year I raised about fifteen bushels ; the sec- 

 ond year about twenty bushels, and this year forty-two bushels 

 per acre. Tiiis marsh was sanded after the cranberries were 

 gathered, each year. I think sand is the best manure that can 

 be applied to a cranberry marsh. The marsh was flowed in 

 the fall, and then let the water off in May, and then flow it 

 again the first of August, to keep the insects ofi", and then again 

 in September, to keep off the frost. Expense of harvesting 

 forty-two bushels twenty dollars; value of crop one hundred 

 iwenty-six dollars. 



