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Mr. Dartt: How about the water? Where is your marsh? 
Mr. Leach: My marsh lies on the shore of a small lake. 
The soil is only good for cranberries; it is totally valueless 
for anything else. 
Mr. Dartt: Is it too wet for hay? 
Mr. Leach: It is too wet for hay; it would only grow a 
very thin crop. It is about a foot above the lake and the 
marsh will fill up in the spring. About the middle of June 
I let the water run off, and the cranberries come in blossom 
from then to the 10th of July, and I always thought until this 
year that after that time it was necessary to have the marsh 
wet all through theseason. I found, however, I was mistaken; 
the marsh from the middle of July up to the time we picked the 
cranberries was perfectly dry. 
Mr. Dartt: Isit covered with ice in the winter? 
Mr. Leach: Yes, with ice and water. 
Prof. Pendergast: Did you ever try covering with sand? 
Mr. Leach: I never did, but [have a neighbor who hauled 
some sand to coverhis marsh. I never made any improvements 
in my marsh except to put a ditch through it to hold the water, 
damming it up to hold the water on the marsh. There is no 
expense at all connected with it except the picking. 
Mr. Brown: Could we secure vines of you? 
Mr. Leach: Yes, if you know how to set them, but Ido not 
how know to set them. That is the mostimportant thing I came 
here for. I want to know, to find out how to transplant them. 
I have heard a good many theories. 
Mr. Pearce: There is a marsh near me of about thirty acres 
that is produced from a big spring in the center. This marsh 
is covered with cranberries. There have been a large amount 
of cranberries picked some years, but the trouble is to over- 
flow it. Could it be overflowed. 
Mr. Brown: How high is it above water. 
Mr. Pearce: It is fifty feet above Lake Minnetonka. 
Mr. Leach: Is there any outlet? 
Mr. Pearce: Nota bit. 
Mr. Leach: All you could do, so far as I can see, is to hold 
the water that is already there. 
Mr. Pearce: It seems to be greatest in the spring. In the 
middle there is a spring that never freezes. This spring will 
overflow twenty acres; yes, it will flood thirty acres. Thereis 
one thing, at the same time there are any amount of cranber- 
ries. 
