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with water, but occasionally there will be an entire fail- 

 ure of the crop either from insects or the late or early 

 frosts, that might have been prevented by the flowage of 

 water at the right time. 



The methods of flowage are various. The natural flow- 

 age is the cheapest and best, if your bog is so situated 

 that you can have your water under perfect control, so 

 that you can let it on and off the bog at your discretion. 



Artificial flowage is more expensive, but is more easily 

 controlled. Very many of the smaller bogs on the cape 

 are flowed from a reservoir constructed in" the ground 

 above the level of the bog, so that the water will flow on 

 the bog from its own force when the gate is opened. 

 These reservoirs are filled with water from wells dug for 

 the purpose, the water being lifted by windmills, which 

 are very common on the cape, more so than in any section 

 of the country I have visited. 



The advantages of flowing the bogs with water are 

 many, the first of which is the protection given to the 

 young berries from the late spring frosts, and the mature 

 berries from the eai'ly frosts in the fall. A very shallow 

 surface of water will protect the berries entirely from the 

 frost, and not unfrequently a flowage of one night, or two 

 at most, will save the entire crop, worth perhaps thou- 

 sands of dollars. 



Another advantage of flowing is the protection you can 

 give to the berries from the ravages of the insects that 

 prey upon them, sometimes destroying an entire crop 

 after the fruit is fully grown. The principal one of these 

 insects, and the one most destructive, is the miller or lly 

 that deposits her eggs in the full grown berry by pene- 

 trating the surface of the berry, and leaving the eggs to 

 germinate a small worm that in a few days' time consumes 

 the centre of the fruit, leaving the surface round and fair 

 and of a dark rich purple color, but renders the fruit en- 

 tirely worthless, and the only remedy for this evil is found 

 in flowing the bogs for one or two days when the miller 



