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tion is suitable, and they receive a moderate degree of 

 attention, each year will increase their productive capa- 

 bilities, so that the third or fourth year will begin to 

 pay the cultivator with remunerative prices. 



From the difficulties presented in this chapter which 

 lay in the path of the early growers of the cranberry, 

 let not the reader be discouraged. There is no occa- 

 sion for such a feeling, because you have the benefit 

 of experience, and the best method of cultivation to 

 guide you; the particulars of which we shall state in 

 the next chapter. 



