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erally known. But there is one imposition that should never 

 be submitted to. It is that of selling to dealers, as some of 

 them demand, five pecks for a bushel. Four pecks of cran- 

 berries, level measure, are one bushel. It is by this measure 

 that the dealers themselves sell them, except when charging 

 an extra price for heaped measure — whicji is not the legal one. 



Cranberry gi'owers would do well to find a market for a large 

 portion of their fruit in Europe. If they Avould take the 

 trouble to find customers there, and would put up the fruit 

 properly, and ship it directly to them soon after being gathered, 

 it would be far more profitable than to let it pass through a 

 dozen hands, as some of it does now. A more extensive in- 

 troduction of our unrivaled American Cranberry into France, 

 England, and other countries, would soon give a great and 

 unfailing demand. 



The English already pay high prices for a scant supply of 

 this luxury. Only a few can use them freely yet ; but with a 

 better supply of the finest berries, at reasonable prices, they 

 would be more extensively called for each coming year. One 

 cranberry grower in the north part of our County, told me 

 lately that he would pay half the expense of sending an agent 

 to England, to obtain information in regard to their markets, 

 and make arrangements for the disposal of cranberry crops to 

 be sent directly from the producers. 



TIME FOR OVERFLOWING THE GROUNDS. 



This is usually done soon after cleaning the vines, or about 

 the last of October in this climate. The water should remain 

 on all winter, of sufficient depth to prevent its becoming frozen 

 through to the ground. It should be drawn off, just cluivn to 

 the toys of the vines, early in May, or as soon as the weather 

 has become mild. The vines will then receive some benefit of . 

 sunlight and warmth, and the water will still prevent injury 

 by frost. The crop is often greatly damaged, and occasionally 

 almost^wholly cut off" by late spring frosts, where water is not 

 kept among the vines to protect them, and prevent them from 



