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PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 31. 



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exclusive of the salary of Dr. Franklin which is not included. 

 The so-called "bog account" includes expenditures of such 

 character as would be essential in the ordinary commercial 

 management of a cranberry bog; the other table includes such 

 expenditures as are directly connected with the experimental 

 work in progress. 



Bog Account, 



Maintenance : — 



Tools or similar equipment bought or re- 

 paired, S30 03 



Oil for engine, etc., 91 75 



Pumping plant maintenance and repairs, . 42 96 



Pumping labor, 29 72 



Mowing of upland, 47 29 



Weeding, 20 69 



Lumber and hardware, 30 74 



Raking \dnes after picking, .... 35 04 



Resanding the bog, 91 00 



Cleaning out ditches, 88 80 



Miscellaneous labor, 37 71 



Express, 5 94 



Sundries, 4 02 



— $555 69 



Harvesting: — 



Picking cranberries, S606 74 



Separating, 42 23 



Screening, 168 99 



Packing, 36 73 



Cartmg, 44 21 



Coopering and mending boxes, . . . 11 25 



Packing materials, 208 00 



Contingent, 2 45 



1,120 60 



Improvements : — 



Building roads, 14 00 



Total, 



Sl,690 29 



Experimental Account. 



Labor, 



Supplies and apparatus, 



Chemicals (including fertilizers and insecticides). 

 Lumber, 



S699 00 



159 08 



40 30 



10 65 



