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week or ten days, and if the exact time is known it is easy to 

 apply the remedy, Tliese insects are said to be unlike any 

 described in the books. Dr. Shove says the miller of the fruit 

 worm appears about the time the berry begins to form. If 

 subsequent observations confirm this, or if they do not, it is 

 advisable to test the remedy suggested by Prof. Agassiz. Dr. 

 Shove further states, that the miller punctures the cranberry 

 and lays its eggs under the skin, in the same manner that the 

 curculio punctures the plum or the cherry. 



The reason that flowing till the first of June is not a perfect 

 remedy against insects is, perhaps, this. In the fall when these 

 insects change from a worm, and become a chrysalis, they bury 

 themselves in the ground. All do not bury themselves on the 

 bog, but on the borders. These are not affected by the flowage; 

 but as the vines are kept back by the water, further investiga- 

 tions may show that these are the only ones that flowage pre- 

 vents from committing depredation. 



It has not been ascertained certainly that the chrysalis of 

 these insects is destroyed by water, but the facts stated indicate 

 that they are so destroyed. 



Of late years many have been too careless in picking and 

 packing their cranberries. This is a great mistake. They 

 should be picked by hand, and spread, not more than five 

 inches deep, in hurdles made of laths, left open so that the air 

 can draw through them. These hurdles should be piled in a 

 room for three weeks where the air circulates freely. If kept 

 in this manner for a longer time it would do no harm, the 

 berries would become perfectly ripe, and thereafter be less 

 liable to rot, or to be injured by frost. When taken from the 

 hurdles they should be winnowed, and every unsound berry 

 picked out by hand. It is also importanjfc that the barrels or 

 packages in which they are put up should be dry and clean. 



PROFITS. 



That the cultivation of the cranberry is a profitable branch of 

 industry, is now a settled fact. Thus far, perhaps, much more 

 has been expended than has been realized. Many have lost all 

 they have expended for want of information and want of expe- 

 rience, and a few who were lucky have realized large profits. 

 Mrs. Winslow of Brewster, in this county, realized, in one crop, a 



