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to try the experiment with northern corn. Having planted a 

 few hills in the garden, for table use, after the ears had been 

 plucked for cooking, the stalks, one hundred and thirty in num- 

 ber, were cut to the ground, the leaves stripped off and the 

 stalks chopped up. The juice was then expressed by a common 

 cheese-press, and one gallon obtained. This was boiled down 

 to one quart. It was then set aside to granulate, a table spoon- 

 ful of lime water having been previously added, to clarify it. 

 But, it having been over-boiled, granulation would not take 

 place. I will only add, that it is my opinion, that every farmer 

 might, by planting corn, in drills, and plucking the ears from a 

 very few rods of land, manufacture his own molasses and 

 sugar. For this purpose, a mill in the neighborhood, propelled 

 by horse-power, would be very convenient. I will further add, 

 that the stalks were eaten by the cattle, after the juice was ex- 

 pressed. 



Marston's Mills, Oct. 6th, 1846. 



James N. LovelVs Statement. 



My cranberry bog was formerly a cedar swamp, which was 

 covered over with beach sand. I have picked twenty square 

 rods, a part of the cranberries on the bog being too green to pick 

 on the 7th inst. The part which I have picked yielded, on an 

 average, one and a half bushels to the square rod, equal to two 

 hundred and forty bushels to the acre. 



It has been my custom to keep the bog flowed with water 

 until about the 15th of April, and I have sometimes, in August, 

 mowed off the tops of fresh grass, that grew up in the lower 

 part of the bog, raking it off lightly. I have, in years past, 

 given one fourth of the cranberries to the pickers ; but now find 

 I can get pickers enough for less than one sixth when they are 

 thick, and one fourth when they are scattering. I am offered 

 two dollars per bushel for them, and my custom, as to measure 

 has been, to give nine half pecks, all struck measure, for a 

 bushel. 



In 1844, the cranberry worm commenced its ravages upon the 



