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the suggestions are approved, you will take prompt measures to 

 have them carried into effect. 



I have the honor to be, with great respect, 

 Your obedient servant, 



THOMAS McELRATH, 



Corresponding Secretary. 



VACCINATION FOR PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 



Judge Meigs stated that Nicholas Wycoff, of Long Island, re- 

 commends vaccination of all cattle exposed to pleuro-pneumonia • 

 and says that in one . case where 100 head of cattle were so 

 treated, only one died. 



CRANBERRY CULTURE. 



Solon Robinson stated that he had received a great number of 

 letters upon the subject of cranberry culture since he made some 

 remarks upon the subject a few weeks since. One of them from 

 Springfield, Mass., he read as follows : 



Dear Sir : Your experience in setting cranberries, I have read 

 with much interest. I have a " patch " of a few acres, which was 

 as unsightly as yours, a few years ago. I cut off the bogs and 

 bushes, underdrained it, and have plowed and hoed it, but don't 

 get much crop. I presume it needs more underdrains, though the 

 crops near the drains are no better than those at a distance. I 

 am somewhat discouraged as to getting anything in return for 

 my outlay. Upon reading your article I doubted whether it was 

 suitable for a cranberry swamp. Can you enlighten me ? I 

 could flow the whole for ten dollars. The muck was eighteen 

 inches deep on an average when it was drained. The subsoil is 

 a very hard sand, mixed with clay; it is so dry I can drive over 

 it anywhere. This muck is composed of decayed trees, roots, 

 grass, &c., on the top quite dry, but somewhat wet a little beneath 

 the surface, and is valuable for spreading upon my upland. I 

 have been in doubt whether to try to do something more with it, 

 as it is, or spread it on my uplands. If you think it suitable for 

 cranberries, I think it should all be set over. What work is 

 there upon cranberry culture ? I should not presume to send 

 you this for your crowded columns, did I not think many more 

 might be benefited by your reply. 



Mr. Robinson .remarked, that there is a good work at Saxton's 

 on cranberry culture, written by an experienced cultivator on 

 Cape Cod. I think the writer may, as I did, cart off much of his 

 muck, and still grow cranberries. Perhaps to cart off muck and 



