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to perfectly give the necessary winter tlow, and maintain a good degree of summer 

 moisture. All such experiments should never involve much outlay until firs^ 

 tried in a small way and proved to be thoroughly practical . 



Where the natural conditions are favorable, cranberry culture will not only j^ay, 

 but in many instances pay very liberally. 



Fields of 200 bushels per acre are frequent and unquestioned, and where the 

 yield is 25 bushels and upward they always represent, a net dollar per bushel as 

 they lay on the marsh, provided the}- are gathered without frost injury. 



The amusement referred to has been from the study of human nature as presented 

 on the cranberry fields in the busy picking season; 500 to 800 pickers in one gang, 

 drawn from every nationalitj^ this side of China, clad in cast off clothing repre- 

 senting the fashions of the last twentj- years. All earnestly working, yet brimming 

 full of fun and jollity; tilling out the evenings with songs, stories, and an occa- 

 sional dance; make an exhibition that can "discount" any county or State Fair in 

 the land. 



Another interesting study has been varied and constantly changing theories 

 and management. No two men agree as to what is best, and no one man holds 

 to the same management for a series of years The reasons assigned for this suc- 

 cess, or remedies proposed for that failure are as varied as the human face, and 

 often as wide of the mark as the wildest guess work. 



But amid all this confusion the good old general rule holds good in this, as in all 

 other interests, presistent, earnest, icell- directed effort is sure to win. Every success- 

 ful grower within my knowledge has made his success bv earuestly working on 

 some well defined plan; turning neither to the right or left, for one, two, or three 

 years of adversity, but meeting and overruning any obstacle with the hand of a 

 master, until success was reached, and to such, as far as I know, there have come 

 no continued failures. 



J. S. STICKXEY, 



Wauwatosa, Wis. 



COMMITTEE OF AAVARDS REPORTED AS FOLLOWS : 



VEGETABLES. 



O. Gibbs, Jr.— 



1st premium on Early Potatoes Sa.Ofr 



1st prem. on White Globe Onions 1.00 



Wm. S.Arnold— 



Ist prem. on Late Potatoe.s 2.0o 



Underwood and Emerj' — 



1st prem. on Sweet Potatoes 2.00 



Hiram Webster— 



1st prem. on Wax Beans l.UO 



1st prem. on Table Beets 1.00 



O. Gibbs, Jr.-- 



2nd prem. on Display Potatoes 3.00 



Wm. Arnold — 



1st prem. on Dent Corn 2.(K> 



