CAPE COD CRANBERRIES. 



CHAPTER I. 

 HOW TO SELECT A BOG. 



The bog should be in a location -well protected from 

 frost, with a bottom of peat, mud, or moss. Cranberries 

 will grow equally well on eibher foundation. There 

 should be sufficient inclination to the bog to afford fall 

 enough to allow the water to be drained off to eighteen 

 inches below the surface. If there is not a brook run- 

 ning through the bog, there should be a spring, or a 

 pond, above it, capable of affording a sufficient supply 

 of water to flow it readily. If there is water enough to 

 cover the vines completely, it is all that is needed. The 

 bog, after it is three years old, ought to be flowed from 

 the first of November until the first of June, as it is then 

 thoroughly vined, and a crop may be expected. There 

 should be a sufficient supply of coarse sand, suitable for 

 covering it, near the bog. 



In selecting a bog, I prefer a huckleberry, maple, or 

 cedar swamp, to a fresh meadow, for the reason that it 

 costs less to take care of it after it is planted. Less grass 

 and fewer weeds will grow in a swamp after it is first 

 cleared, than in a meadow. The swamp on which noth- 

 ing but wood has grown, has the best bottom-; it is en- 

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