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We call the reader's attention to the cost of this yard, 

 and the returns which Mr. Hall had from it from the 

 first to the third year. Setting the third year's yield 

 at three dollars per bushel, which was a very low price 

 indeed for cranberries this fall, it gave him two hun- 

 dred and nineteen dollars, equalling within eighty-one 

 dollars the original cost of the yard, allowing it, to 

 have been three hundred dollars. (See plate No. 10.) 



LETTER II. 



DEAR SIR : Yours of the 1st inst. has this moment 

 been received, and in reply I would say : 



1. My cranberries are grown on a soil of peat muck 

 and loose beach sand (not common earth), which I am 

 convinced is the element for cranberries to grow in. 



2. I plant my cranberries in hills eighteen inches 

 apart, by making a hole in the ground about three 

 inches in diameter, and of sufficient depth to receive 

 the roots of the plants ; then, after placing the vines 

 in their places, I am careful to have them opened, and 

 the soil placed in such a manner so as to spread the 

 hills all around to the sides of the hole that is made 

 to receive them, so that the hills after they are set 

 resemble a saucer placed in the ground and partly 



