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Every one connected with agriciiLtiiral pursuits in 

 this country, must be aware that there exists at pre- 

 sent considerable anxiety respecting the best modes of 

 cultivating the cranberry. Having been attracted to 

 this subject, I paid particular attention to it, and in- 

 stituted a series of investigations, with special refer- 

 ence to raising the berry as an article of commerce. 

 In these, I was materially assisted by some of the 

 most successful growers in the country, whose "yards" 

 I visited, and whose experiences I received from their 

 own lips. The results of these investigations I par- 

 tially embodied in a series of letters which were made 

 public through the columns of the "New York 

 Tribune," and so great was the attention they excited, 

 and so many letters asking for further information 

 were forwarded to me, that I concluded to embody my 

 own experience, and that of others on the subject, in 

 the manual which is now before the reader. In it, any 

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