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June 15. — Hoeing between rows, 



" 25, and July 5. — Weeding, four days, 

 Harvesting, - - - _ 



Interest on land, - - . 



By 13,840 pounds carrots, or 230| bushels, at 60 

 pounds per bushel, estimated at $10 per ton, 



Profit, - - $45 8c 



East Dennis, Oct. 7, 1851, 



Cranberries. 

 To Alvan Cahoon, of Harwich, for the best experiment in 

 cultivating the cranberry on one quarter acre of land, was 

 awarded the first premium, $5. 



Alvan Cahooit^s Statement. 



Twelve years since, I purchased, for one hundred dollars, 

 twenty acres of land, including a bush swamp of about two 

 acres. The swamp I did not value more than five dollars at 

 the time when purchased, the mud being from six inches to 

 three feet deep, beneath which was white sand. 



In the spring of 1846, I cleared off the bushes from about 

 seven rods, and finished by covering with sand four inches 

 thick, and set it with cranberry vines in hills eighteen inches 

 apart each way. The first and second year the vines grew 

 well and bore a little ; the year past the average crop was one 

 and a quarter bushels per acre. 



The quarter acre examined by the committee, and which is 

 oflfered more particularly for premium, I set with vines in 

 1847 ; the meadow prepared in the same manner as the above 

 described piece. The vines grew very fast, without any care, 

 after setting them. The quarter acre yielded, in 1849, six 

 bushels; in 1850, thirty-five bushels; and in 1851, fifty-four 

 bushels. The expense for preparing meadow, setting the 

 vines, &c., I estimate at one dollar per rod. 



