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cranberry sod. In the drills were set 1267 sods, containing the 

 cranberry vines ; the average surface of the sod is nine by eleven 

 inches, average thickness four inches ; the sods were set four 

 and a half feet apart in the drills, let into the ground with a 

 spade, level with the surface, carefully, levelling the whole sur- 

 face of the ground round the sod with a hoe. I state, for the 

 information of others, the labor of setting on the turf part of the 

 ground was more than double to setting on that part which had 

 been cultivated. I would therefore recommend to plough and 

 cultivate the ground one year before setting. 

 The wlole expense was as follows : — 

 Ploughing, . . . . . . $2 00 



Cutting and hauling sods from the cranberry meadow. 6 00 

 Setting cranberry vines, . . . 5 00 



Cultivating and hoeing, . . . 4 00 



$17 00 

 In regard to the growth of the vines, they all appear to be 



alive, and the runners have extended from one inch to three feet 



in every direction. Oct. 14th, gathered from the vines one bushel 



and thirteen quarts. 

 Between the cranberry rows I planted the white bush-bean, 



and raised nine bushels. 



Essex, November 10th, 1847. 



Forest Trees. 



By the Revised Statutes, Chap. 42, sec. 6, it is provided, that 

 " every Agricultural Society which shall receive the bounty of 

 the state, shall offer, annually, such premiums and encourage- 

 ments, for the raising and preserving of oaks and other forest 

 trees, as to them shall seem proper, and best adapted to perpet- 

 uate, within the state, an adequate supply of ship-timber." 



Prompted by this statute provision, as well as by the generous 

 donation of Richard S. Fay, Esq., on the same subject, herewith 



