382 Traksactioxs of tee Americak Institute. 



bly take 700 or 800 busliek from bis seven acres. "We saw a bog 

 of fifteen acres which is now being put in by General John 

 S. Schnltze. It is a model of tasteful, thorough and accurate plant- 

 ing. The Hues of plants are mathematically straight from 'c-ne side 

 to the other, and the area is divided by sub-ditches, which cut the 

 bog into sections of half an acre each. His expenses per acre will 

 be about §225, and the work is in all respects careful and admirable. 

 He is likely to have the handsomest and most productive bog in 

 Ocean county. After an outlay of about 8250 for the land and 

 planting, a cranberry bog calls for very little annual expense, and 

 yields on an average 150 bushels per acre, which sell at four dollars, 

 and this year ])robab]y at five dollars per bushel. There is no agri- 

 cultural property in the country which can compare with a cranberry- 

 garden in profit. 



JOSEPH B. LYMAX, 



A. B. CEAXDELL, 

 S. EDWAKDS TODD, 

 E. WILLIAMS, 

 A. PRETERRE, 



Committee. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller.--Thougli this report is carefully vrritten, and 

 • shows careful observation, there are one or two suggestions that 

 should be made. The fact that one flourishing vineyard has been 

 established in a clearing of south Jersey, does not prove that all 

 sandy plains are good lor grapes. Tlie grape does well on all new 

 lands; and its history shows that, like the bufi'alo and the Pawnee, 

 " the star of empire westward takes its way." 



Mr. P. T. Quinn. — I do not think it safe for us to say tliat $225 per 

 acre will establish a cranberry garden. More than one cranberry 

 man has put $800 into an acre before he got enough to pay for fenc- 

 ing. In many of tlie south Jersey bogs, the grasshoppers did great 

 damage. 



Kew Discovery in Tanning. 



Mr. Orville M. Tinkham exhibited some fine specimens of soft, 

 pliable and apparently well tanned leather, on which no bark juice 

 had been used. The process is the invention of Ira Wood, of Vermont, 

 and it consists in getting an extract by boiling forest leaves and using 

 it for tanning. Tlie exhibitor said that farmers can do a good busi- 

 ness by raking up leaves in the woods and manufacturing this extract 

 for tanners. 



