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We call the reader's attention to tlie cost of tMs yard, • 

 and the returns which Mr. Hall had jfrom it from the 

 first to the third year. Setting the third year's yield 

 at fliree dollars per bushel, which was a very low price 

 indeed for cranberries this fall, it gave him two hun- 

 dred and mneteen dcdlars, equalling within eighty-one 

 doUars the original cost of the yard, allowing it to 

 have been three hundred dollars. (See plate No. 10.) 



LETTER II. 



Deae Sie : — ^Yours of the 1st inst. has this moment 

 been received, and in reply I would say : 



1. My cranberries are grown on a soil of peat muck 

 and loose hecKh sand (not common earth), which I am 

 convinced is the element for cranberries to grow in. 



2. I plant my cranberries in hills eighteen inches 

 apart, by making a hole in the ground about three 

 inches in diameter, and of sufficient depth to receive 

 the roots of the plants ; then, after placing the vines 

 ia their places, I am careful to have them opened, and 

 the soil placed in such a manner so as to spread the 

 hiUs all around to the sides of the hole that is made 

 to receive them, so that the hills after they are set 

 resemble a saucer placed in the ground and partly 



