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" Tliey may bo spread on floors, or put in good bar- 

 rels and piled on tlie north, side of a building, until 

 cold weather, Avhen they should be put under cover, 

 in a cool cellar, or building, where it will not freeze 

 hard. 



" The berry will not be as red as it would be if 

 spread, but I think it will keep better. For my ex- 

 periment with the cranberry on upland, I selected a 

 piece of new land where the wood had just been cut 

 off. I had it dug over with the grub hoe in the fall of 

 1849, taking out the loose stones and roots ; and hav- 

 ing prepared four square rods, I had it drilled eighteen 

 inches apart, filling the drills with peat mud. I took 

 the vines from a wild wet bog in the month of Novem- 

 ber, and set them about one foot apart in the drills. 

 This is all that has been done for them except to keep 

 them clear from weeds for two years. 



"In the fall of 1853, I picked from the lot two 

 bushels and three pecks of berries. In the summer of 

 1854, they bade fair to yield a mucli better crop, but 

 were cut off by the hot and dry weather in August, and 

 I did not get quite two bushels. 



"Last winter the vines were killed, probably by the 

 extreme cold weather, but sprang up again from the 

 roots and bloomed very fully — ^but so late in the season 

 that they have been much affected by the drought, and 

 I shall not get more than one-and-a-half bushel. The 

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