AND WHERE TO FIXD ONE. 



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all the fruits. Its sale is distributed over the whole 

 year, instead of being, like other berries, crowded 

 into a few weeks. It is largely exported, and there 

 has rarely been a glut. 



At a meeting of the E~ew York Farmers Club, 

 in 1858, a letter from Mr. Edwin Salter, of Barne- 

 gat, Ocean County, New Jersey, was read, from 

 which the following extract is taken : 



&quot; I notice, at a late meeting of the Farmers Club, that 

 the subject of transplanting cranberries was brought up. 

 Could you put me in a way to find out what the New 

 England cranberry-growers consider a good crop, natural 

 growth and transplanted ? There are scores of acres in 

 this vicinity that yield often over 100 bushels per acre from 

 natural growth ; transplanting is here a new thing, and has 

 not been carried on long enough to know how successful 

 it will prove. The heaviest yielding cranberry -bog in this 

 section is one in the woods some twenty miles from any 

 habitation (except cabins), which is said to have yielded 

 300 bushels to the acre one season. In the vicinity of this 

 bog are hundreds of acres of land which appears to be 

 naturally such as at your meeting was described as the 

 best adapted for transplanting. As this land is held at 

 only a nominal price (from $1 to $3 per acre), it would 

 doubtless pay to try transplanting there. At any rate it 

 will be tried. It ought to pay better than New England 

 land, for which, in addition to the higher price of land, 

 heavy expenses sometimes have to be incurred to make it 

 precisely what this is naturally. Our shore people here are 

 nearly all seafaring men, but of late some few of them are 

 turning their attention to the soil ; their experiments thus 

 far prove that, though our land may not be as good as in 



