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which period care must be taken and much labor expende¢ 
to keep the ground clear of weeds and grass. 
- The usual cost per acre of preparing and keeping ar 
acre of ground of Cranberries.in good condition during the 
three years while the bud is maturing, is from $100, $20€ 
to $300 per acre, on low wet lands, but nearly twice as 
much on uplands. 
When the ground is fully covered with vines, the usual 
crop will average about 150 bushels per acre—but some 
places have been so well prepared and so favorable for it 
that at the rate of 450 bushels per acre have been known 
to be gathered from a half acre. 
Loudon remarks, “that Sir Joseph Banks, after having 
imported the American Cranberry into England, raised in 
1831 three and a half bushels on a piece of land eighteen 
feet square. This is at the rate of about four hundred and 
sixty bushels to the acre.” 
The price of the Cranberry varies in market, ranging 
from two to four dollars per bushel, so that it may be seen 
they are a very profitable crop; and often times low swamp 
land fit for but little else can thus be used to good purpose. 
They are easily gathered with Cranberry rakes, with 
which 20 to 30 bushels per day, or even 40 bushels can be 
taken from the vines by a man and boy. 
Sometimes the Cranberry, is raised from the seed, but 
an inferior variety is as likely to result as otherwise. They 
will also grow from cuttings. The fall or spring are favor- 
able seasons for transplanting, but the former is consider- 
ed best. From September until the ground freezes, or 
from March till the middle of May will do. 
‘Professor Horsford has recently given the féllusitag 
valuable analysis of the Cranberry fruit : 
