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land and setting vines is $1,50 to $1,87J per rod, 

 which is very extravagant, compared with the manner 

 I have pursued: 



The cost of building my dam by contract . $20 00 

 Ox labor, furnished by myself, estimated . 5 00 



Setting vines on about an acre . . . 25 00 



-$50 00 



The cost of stopping and letting off water, and 



taking care of the same since 1846, yearly, 



$10,00 $90 00 



Beckoning the cranberries, for the past six years, at 

 six hundred bushels, and the cost of picking and 

 marketing the same at 75 cents per bushel 450 00 



$540 00 



Net profit on $50, expended nine years . . $1041 20 



Yearly income on $50 ...... 115 67 



Respectfully yours, 



North Reading, Sept. 25, 1855. ADDISON FLINT. 



[NOTE. Since the above statement was made, the 

 Secretary has learned from Mr. Flint that he had just 

 fifty barrels of cranberries as his crop of 1855, which 

 he sold for thirteen dollars a barrel, delivered at the depot 

 two miles from his house, making the pretty sum of 

 six hundred and fifty dollars as the product of two acres 

 of what was quite recently an almost worthless bog 

 meadow. Mr. Flint also states, that in looking about 

 he notices a good many tracts of land apparently as 

 good for the cranberry crop as his, and that some of the 

 pieces might much more readily be flowed and re 

 claimed than his own.] 



