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have continued transplanting until the present year, and I find 

 it works well. I have gathered, this year, from six quarts to 

 one half-bushel per rod — making seventy-five bushels gathered, 

 and, to appearance, there are more than twenty-five bushels on 

 the bog not yet gathered. These cranberries are of a superior 

 quality, and are readily sold from $3 00 to $3 25 per bushel. 

 To protect the vines from the frost, I have, in some instances, 

 covered them with cotton cloth : the cloth is raised about two 

 feet from the surface, and answers the purpose for which it is 

 designed. The cloth cost $1 SO per rod, and may, with care, 

 last several years. The cost of transplanting, on an average, 

 is 75 cents per rod. 



West Barnstable, Oct. 20, 1847. 



Domestic Manufactures. 



The Committee cannot forbear the expression of their regret, 

 that the exhibition of articles of Domestic Manufacture was not 

 larger and more extensive. Where there is no competition, there 

 can be no great interest excited, either in the exhibitor or the 

 observer, and, surely, it is no very hard task for a committee to 

 decide the merits of " best" and "next best" between only two 

 articles exhibited. But where there is an array of many differ- 

 ent things, from different hands, stimulated by various tastes, 

 though all cannot succeed in the competition, they will have 

 subserved the higher purpose of improving the taste, and giv- 

 ing energy to the industry, of the families of our society. The 

 Committee wish that their successors may have a harder task, 

 in the way of discrimination and judgment, than they have 

 been called on to perform to-day. 



Your committee ask leave also to suggest, to their co-laborers 

 in the cause of American industry, that they bring, to the next 

 exhibition of the Society, a more complete display of the useful 

 articles of domestic economy, wrought by no water-power, or 

 labor-saving machinery, but by the willing and skilful hands of 

 the ladies of Cape Cod. When it is recollected, that this exhibition 



