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a piece of one-inch white oak board, about fifteen inches 

 long by three inches wide, and fastened to a handle. 



MARKING. 



When the operation of spreading the sand is completed, 

 we next make use of an implement called the "Marker." 

 This (fig. 5) is made of a piece of two by four inch joist, 

 about nine feet long, having teeth set eighteen inches 

 apart, and a handle the length of a rake-handle. The 

 teeth are eight inches long, made of white oak, driven 

 through holes bored in the joist for the purpose. The 

 implement is made similar to the common rake, with 



Fig. 5. — MAEKBK. 



teeth farther apart, and the whole made stronger to stand 

 harder usage, by having stays running from the handle 

 to the head, which holds the teeth. 



To mark off the bog, a line is stretched, say six inches 

 from the margin of any one of the intersecting ditches, 

 as a starting point, and run the marker lengthwise of 

 that line, and continue to mark to within six inches, or 

 the same distance of the next intersecting ditch, and so 

 continue back and forth between the shore and central 

 ditch until that particular section has been gone over ; 

 we then proceed to the next section and mark it in the 

 .same manner, and so on in rotation, until all have been 

 marked in the ,same way. We then draw the marker 

 transversely across the sections, that is to say, at right 



