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Mode of Planting Cranbereies. 



Mr. Jones Griffith, Hammonton, N. J.— I have in thorough prepa- 

 ration my swamp for cranberries, and the question with me is, which 

 is the best way to set out the plants, whether with sand or without ? 

 Usually, some three or four inches of sand is spread over before setting, 

 but this evil results from this plan : many laterals grow and spread in 

 many directions without tg,king root at all, and iinally rot. Now, to 

 prevent this, I have an idea of setting my plants without sand for the 

 first year ; the second year to put on some one and a half inch, and the 

 third the same ; believing that by doing this the laterals will take root 

 much more readily. 



Mr, J. B. Lyman. — Cranberry culture is in its infancy. Some of 

 the best growers are putting two or more inches at first, and adding 

 an inch each year after a large crop has been gathered. 



How TO Crush Bones. 



Mr. E. S. Warthen, Sandersville, Ga. — I have gathered up several 

 thousand pounds of old horse and cattle bones, and do not know how 

 to pulverize or prepare them to apply to cotton, I want a cheap 

 plan. 



Mr. J. B. Lyman. — As he has so many it may pay for him to buy 

 a mill suitable to crush them. But as this outlay would be consider- 

 able, the advice of the club is : Set a large caldron or kettle in the 

 ground, and fix over it a cannon ball or otlier heavy round weight, 

 suspended between two hickory springs, so that the ball will be lifted 

 two or three feet after each stroke. Two boys can work the pestle. 

 Break up the bones with a sledge-hammer, and then pound them in 

 this big mortar. This will make a fertilizer that will act slowly, but 

 its effects on the land will be seen for many years. If a quick acting 

 manure is wanted, the better way will be to convert the bones into 

 super-phosphate. Dig a shallow dish-shaped pit, and line it with 

 clay. Pack the bones in snugly, and pour upon them about one-third 

 of their weight of oil of vitriol, which had better be brought by the 

 carboy. The bones will be reduced to a kind of paste. This should 

 be mixed with, say an equal quantity of dry loam, and placed in the 

 furrows when the cotton is planted. 



Asiifis AND Slaked Lime. 



■ Mr. Wm. G. Koberts, Racine, Wis., says : I am hauling to my land 



from the city washed ashes from a soap factory. With these ashes 



