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the bounds of the single State of New- York, were to be converted, 

 as they certainly might be, into cranberry meadows, I will ven- 

 ture the assertion that The Tribune would never again quote cran- 

 berries at $14 or $15 per barrel. And if anything which I may 

 be able to say should in any manner be instrumental in reclaim- 

 ing those waste acres, or any portion of them, I will agree to 

 share with the Editor of The Tribune those hearty thanks which 

 I am fully persuaded would be forthcoming from many a good 

 housewife. The following is submitted as the result of several 

 years of observation and experience in the cultivation of the cran- 

 berry. The subject of my experiment is a Swamp of several acres, 

 and of a peat soil. Formerly it was covered with small brush, 

 moss, &c., no large timber being found on it, owing to the fact 

 that it was submerged during a great portion of the year. On 

 the borders of this swamp a few cranberry vines, indigenous to 

 the soil, were to be found. By a series of open ditches leading 

 across it and through a bank at its margin, I was enabled to re- 

 move the superabundant surface water. This done, cranberry 

 vines began to make their appearance in different portions of the 

 swamp, but more plentifully in the central portion, from which 

 they began to spread over the land at a rapid rate. In their pro- 

 gress, however, they encountered an enemy in the shape of the 

 above mentioned brush, whicli not only retarded their growth, 

 and prevented the full development of their prolific qualities, but 

 in some places, entirely excluded them. Hence it occurred to 

 me that an advantage would be gained by thoroughly subduing 

 the soil previous to its occupancy by the cranberry. To this 

 work I then addressed myself, accomplishing it with the plow 

 on the borders, where the land had become sufficiently dry to 

 render that mode practicable, and with a spade in other portions 

 on which a team could not be driven. As done by a spade, the 

 work consists in paring off the surface and throwing the result 

 into heaps, which, when rotted, answer a good purpose as manure 

 for fruit trees. The clean surface thus exposed, should be spaded 

 to the depth of two or three inches, when the process of trans- 

 planting may be performed. If, however, the transplanting be 

 deferred until the following spring, and and the soil be occasion- 



