ESSEX SOCIETY. 



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We are aware that we make the raising of the onion, depend- 

 ent upon severe labor and vigilant attention. We know that 

 it cannot be successfully done without these. But it is not labor 

 lost. No cultivation, within our observation, better repays for 

 the labor and incidental expenses. We have known, the present 

 season, acres that have yielded their owners a net income of 

 more than two hundred dollars ; and we know that a man, with 

 two boys, can well attend to half a dozen acres of such cultiva- 

 tion. Surely, when, as at present, there is no limit to the de- 

 mand for the article, and a ready cash market, those who have 

 acres , and are willing to labor, need not be in want of a fair com- 

 pensation for their labor. 



As samples of the present year's produce in the town of Dan- 

 vers, we state the following that have come under our notice. 

 Names. Acres. Produce. 



John Peaselee, 



Daniel Osborn & Son, 



James P. King, 



Aaron C. Proctor, 



E. & D. Buxton, 



Henry Bushby, 



Joseph Bushby, 

 Yielding an average of more than 500 bushels to the acre. 



Essay on the Cultivation of the Cranberry. 



BY DAVID CHOATE. 



Although cranberries have grown upon the wild vines in 

 Barnstable County so long, that, in the language of the law, the 

 memory of man runneth not to the contrary, the cultivation of 

 this delicious fruit opens a new field of enterprise to the agricul- 

 turist. The names, it is true, of a few individuals in Dennis 

 and Yarmouth, who are said to have paid attention to the sub- 

 ject some twenty years ago, are given in the agricultural papers ; 

 but probably the number was small indeed. The early volumes 

 of the New England Farmer, even when conducted by the far- 



