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to experiment with Later flowing he can do so. I have 

 kept the water on until the fifteenth day of June, and 

 have had a good, well-ripened crop. 



The object in keeping the water on until June, after 

 the bog is vined and ready to bear, is to prevent damage 

 from late frosts, and get rid of the Fruit-worm and the 

 Fire-worm; next to the frost, these two pests are the 

 worst foes of the cranberry. The particular bog above 

 alluded to, which was flowed until the fifteenth day of 



Fig. 10. DAM, SHOWING GATE SHUT AND GATE OPEN. 



June, in the year 1884, is known as the " Monomoscoy 

 Bog," situated in the town of Marshpee. It contains five 

 acres, and cost $1,870.00. The expense of the bog that 

 year, including the weeding and care of it, the building 

 of a bog-house, the gathering of the crop, besides tools 

 bought for the use of the bog, and taxes, was $1,378.40 ; 

 and a dividend was paid of $1,894.76, or 101 percent. 

 In the spring of 1885, 400 barrels of vines were sold from 

 the bog, giving a net profit of $958.00, or more than half 

 the first cost, and there were besides 200* barrels of cran- 

 berries on the bog at a low estimate. 



* There were 232 barrels by actual count. 



