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moist, if you keep the vines under water till you take them up. It 

 is better to plant in the spring. 



If you let your vines stay out in the air through the winter, some 

 fine winter, you will get a winter kill on them. You lose your 

 vines ; or the vines are alive to a certain extent at the roots, but it 

 kills your crops for two years if you get a winter kill. Before the 

 time of freezing up you put the g ites down and flow the bog. 



If you have frost coming on young berries in July, they begin to 

 set about the first of July, if the water covers those berries, in that 

 condition, nine hours it kills them, but when your crop is grown you 

 can throw the water on and keep it on forty-eight hours, — I ihink a 

 week, and it would not kill them. If the frost comes very early in 

 the fall and has a pretty general spread, the man who can keep his 

 berries will get a good price for them. 



Ques. Is there any special benefit from flowing? 

 Ans. Only as it keeps up the temperature, no. If you keep up 

 the temperature, you keep the frost off. More than fifty years ago 

 I was a resident of the town of Barnstable. They have a tremen- 

 dous beach separating the margin from the upland with great sand 

 banks. The town ordered that the people should go there and pick 

 cranberries. As I remember it, it seemed as if those cranberries 

 were growing out of the sand. But I do not think you can get some- 

 thing out of nothing ; it must have been the muck that was under- 

 neath the sand. Now they have got all these places turned into 

 private cranberry bogs. They think close by the sea is better ; but 

 if you can control water and keep the frost away from your vines 

 you are all right. 



Mr. Pope. You think it is necessary in winter to have flowage if 

 they keep the ice away from the plant. Would it do to have a foot 

 of ice pressing upon the vines? 



Ans. I don't know as it does any particular good ; but I am 

 sorry to sa} , I think that is the condition of my bog at this moment. 

 We have had our vines in the ice a good many years and it did not 

 seem to hurt them ; but I do not think it would do them any good. 

 Mr. Knowlton. How long should the water flow over it in the 

 fall ? Whether you would cover as soon as the berries are off and 

 keep flowed until spring? 



Ans. I think it is better to leave it as late as you can, because 

 the buds must be developing pretty late ; I should say early flowage 



