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for niauy of these bogs being ruu out, aud the idea is abroad tlaat it does 

 uot pay to raise cranberries. Tlie object (if you will pardou me for 

 referring to it) iu having this matter presented at this meeting is to call 

 attention to the resources which nature has given us iu the State, and to 

 suggest or to emphasize the line along which we can work the most suc- 

 cessfully. There are a few small beds in the State where enterprising 

 farmers, who want a few cranberries for themselves, have set out a few 

 vines, and they are getting quite a lot of cranberries ; but they are not 

 raising them as a market crop or anything of that kiud, but simply for 

 their own satisfaction ; and there is an unlimited pleasure iu that sort 

 of thing. I hope that what the professor has told us here will encourage 

 us to investigate this thing still more and experiment along the line that 

 nature suggests, thus insuring more profitable work in this matter of 

 cranberry culture. 



^Ir. YiXTOX. The simple truth in regard to us in ]Maine is that we do 

 not try to do anything with this crop. It is amazing that we should pei- 

 mit that state of things to exist. We have the bogs, lots of them and of 

 the best kind, and all that is necessary is for us to go to work and raise 

 the cranberries. Two things may be said iu regard to this crop and said 

 with truth. First, it takes but a very small piece of ground to produce a 

 barrel of cranberries ; second, the cranberries are worth 812 a barrel. 

 Xow isn't that better than raising potatoes this year"? 



Prof. Harvey. Let me quote a few words from Mr. Hersey : "Xever 

 engage in cranberrj'- culture unless you can locate where the conditions 

 are favorable ; uever purchase the plants fi'om localities where destruc- 

 tive insects have injured them; never set plants that are not prolific 

 bearers and do not produce berries of a thick flesh (of course it requires 

 some care if you are going to select them from your own home bog, or 

 you would have to deal with reliable growers) ; never half build a bog ; 

 and finally, let the business alone unless j'ou care enough about it to 

 make j'ourself familiar with all of its details, from the selection of the 

 bog to the marketing of the fruit.*' 



Ques. We have quite a number of high bush cranberry vines, but 

 some years we do uot get any cranberries. What can we do to cause 

 those vines to bear? 



Mr. KxowLTON. T have no doubt that annual fertilization aud prun- 

 ing would improve those bushes. I have had but very little experience 

 with the high-bush cranberry which grows so spontaneously all through 

 Maine. I always admired the beauty of the flowers ; and, by the way, it 

 is one of the most beautiful decorative shrubs that you will find iu the 

 State or in New England. If you examine the reports made by those 

 who are familiar with the subject and who reconnnend varieties or 

 species of trees aud shrubs for oruamentation in Xew England, you will 

 find that almost without exception this viburnum is recommended. It is 

 a beautiful thing in flower, and it is a beautiful thing in fruit. Some 

 years ago when I settled on the place where I now live I wanted some of 

 these shrubs for the flowers, and I have three or four bunches of them. 

 They happen to be growing where they get a good deal of wash from 



