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well, and lath up and down with three-quarter inch lath; dovetail 

 or countersink joists crosswise; lay the floor, and board up the 

 ends with ungrooved boards; let each bent be twelve feet long, six 

 feet wide at the sill, and seven and a half feet at plate, with four- 

 teen feet floor, and if full to peak, it will hold two hundred and 

 fifty bushels. I never had an ear to hurt on account of the great 

 width. If preferred, lay the floor with lath or narrow boards, 

 with room for ventilation. Each post should stand on stone, about 

 three inches from the ground, and each stone have a foundation two 

 feet square, and below the frost. Adjourned. 



December 17, 1867. 



Mr. Nathax C. Ely in the chair; Mr. John W. Chambers, Secretary. 



CRANBERRY CULTURE. 



Mr. James Lynch, New York, inquired about the cultm'e of cran- 

 berries — as to the risks in the production of crop, and -what those 

 risks are? He inquired, also, whether salt water will do for 

 flooding. 



Dr. Israel Jarvis. — Sand is very essential in the culture of cran- 

 berries. Any one who can prepare beds of sand, will be able to 

 produce a bountiful crop of cranberries. The cranberry will flour- 

 ish well on pure sand or pure muck. Cranberry vines require 

 three principal substances for their luxuriant growth, which are 

 sand, muck and water. Where those three things can be obtained, 

 cranberries can be raised in satisfactory crops. Some persons think 

 that the fruit is better as it is raised near salt water. 



Mr. J. C. Thompson, gave some of his experience in the culture 

 of cranberries, and stated that Prof. J. J. Mapes said, you can grow 

 cranberries on dry land as well as on low land, if you dam up the 

 water so as to flood the vines once a year. At a certain season of 

 the year, the entire ground must be covered with water long enough 

 to destroy the insects that lay their eggs in the vines. He had once 

 been afflicted with cranberry on the brain; but now, he thought 

 that, after having visited several sections of country to procure infor- 

 mation on cranberry culture, all this fruit requires is, black swamp 

 muck, mixed with sand, and so arranged that the land can bje flooded 

 at pleasure. 



