132 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



1)clieve we can find a market for the canned fruit and jelly. 

 Almost every lady would rather have the berries all ready 

 to put on the table than to put them up herself. 



Mr. . The essayist says two distinguished gentle- 

 men found the sauce at Sutton very nice. I would like to 

 ask him if it does not make a little diiference how you cook 

 the cranberry, what you mix with it. It strikes me there 

 may have been something in that. Poor molasses or poor 

 sugar makes a great difference. 



Mr. Stockwell. I should prefer to leave the credit of it 

 with the berry. My friend Mr. Edson speaks of the Early 

 Black. He does not speak any too highly of the berry. If 

 I was going to set out any berry on an inland meadow, I 

 would take the Early Black. It is the earlier fruit. And 

 then when you take the black-cap of the Cape, and bring it 

 into the interior, it takes on that bright hue that is so much 

 superior to the dark shades of the Cape berries. No doubt 

 the culture makes a great difference in the weight of the 

 berry. Large berries such as we raise will outweigh any 

 other berry that is grown upon natural soil, or that does not 

 have the right culture. On the Cape they do not need 

 the water usually, but that is essential and necessary for 

 us in the interior. They have not the frosts that we have. 

 They can more easily pick their berries, because it is very 

 seldom that the early frost that troubles us touches the 

 Cape bog or Jersey bog, therefore they can get along 

 without the water. But my friend Mr. Edson speaks of 

 the water as necessary, and the ditches as filled to help 

 mature the crop. It is exactly the opposite with us. We 

 want all the heat we can get from the sun in order to 

 mature the fruit. On the Cape they desire the water in 

 order that the cranberry may grow to a good size. But it 

 is exactly the opposite with us, so there is no comparison. 



Now, with reference to hill planting and taking the turf 

 off. That may be in certain cases advisable ; it depends 

 upon the character of your meadow. If it is nothing but 

 grass or roots or brush, you might do it, but you are not 

 going to get rid of the persistent grasses by taking off the 

 turf, because their roots remain ; and Mr. Edson finds them 

 in the sand. They are coming up through if you put on 



