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EXPERIMENT STATION. 



[Jan. 



The bog produced a very superior crop in 1913, both as to 

 quantity and quality of the fruit. The accounts are so kept as 

 to make it possible to distinguish between such expenses as 

 would be required in ordinary bog management and such as 

 are incurred in connection with the experiments in progress. 

 The area of the bog is, in round numbers, twelve and one-half 

 acres. The two financial statements follow: — 



Bog Account. 

 Maintenance : — 



Tools and similar equipment bought or re 



paired, 

 Oil for engines, etc. (gasoline, kerosene and 



lubricating), 

 Engine and bog pump repairs. 

 Pumping labor, 

 Bees, rental of, 

 Mowing of upland, . 

 Weeding, 

 Fertilizers, 

 Mending dikes, 

 Digging out ditches. 

 Repairs to buildings, 

 Lumber, .... 

 Sundries, 



Miscellaneous labor, 

 Raking vines after picking. 



$94 29 



$723 86 



Harvesting: — 



Picking, $500 46 



Separating, 131 69 



Screening, 119 08 



Packing, . . 45 75 



Carting, 132 65 



Packing materials (barrels and coopering), . 538 75 



1,468 38 



Contingent expenses, 3 38 



Improvements : — 



Building roads, 42 40 



Total, $2,238 02 



