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SUCCESSFUL GROWTH OF CRANBERRIES ON UPLAND, ETC. 
at a distance of three or four inches from the buried 
wood, for every square yard of surface, 5 3 lbs. of 
a mixture formed of S lbs. of silicate of potash, 
and 2| lbs. of double phosphates of potash and 
lime. The trench is then to be filled up, and the 
roots have as much potash as they will want for a 
Jong time. To prevent, however, the exhaustion 
of the potash, it is as well to spread every year at 
ihe foot of the stools a certain quantity of the 
husks 01 grapes, which contains 2£ per cent, of 
carbonate of potash, and will restore annually a 
large proportion of the potash that may have dis- 
appeared from the trench. 
Hitherto the success of a vintage depended, cceteris 
paribus, in a great measure on the influence of the 
atmosphere. Thus, suppose a vine stock required 10 
parts of potash to be enabled to bear fruit, if the 
action of heat and rain on the stones and earth in 
a state of decomposition could only furnish 5, the 
vintage would be bad. This dang* will be avoid- 
ed by the above system of culture, in which the 
vine must always have suitable food ; but it is not 
to be forgotten that, although I promise the grape 
growers who shall follow the above plan an abun- 
dance of produce, I can by no means insure the 
quality of that produce ; for quality must always 
depend on the temperature. 
SUCCESSFUL GROWTH OF CRANBERRIES ON- 
UPLAND. 
An experiment of Mr. Winthrop Low, of Essex, 
on the cultivation of the common marsh cranberry 
on upland, is one of great interest. It establishes 
the fact, so far as it can be done in one year, that 
cranberries may be raised in perfection upon a dry 
upland soil, without artificial watering. The soil 
selected by him was, most of it, a sandy loam. It 
was perfect Indian-corn land. The soil is porous, 
and would not retain water, even if the ground 
were level. 
A.s evidence of the completely upland nature of 
the soil, it may be stated, that a row of white beans 
was planted between every two of cranberry vines : 
and although it has not been a good year for white 
beans, Mr. Low has harvested nine bushels from 
the one hundred and twenty rods — a fact showing, 
also, that the land is not lost to the cultivator even 
the first year, indeed that the bean crop lias defray- 
ed a large part of the expense. 
The cranberry vines had put out runners in many 
cases, from three to four feet long, and have all the 
marks and numbers of health and vigor. Sand 
was applied to about one half of the hills, but 
without any apparent advantage whatever. The 
attention of the committee was called particularly to 
this fact, because the experiments in Barnstable 
county seem to have been all made with sand, and 
it is there thought and declared to be indispensa- 
ble. There was no artificial watering. The cran- 
berry sods were taken up, as appears, on the 15th 
of May, and set out on the 16th, 18th, and 19th. 
It should be borne in mind, however, by way of 
caution, that there had been more wet weather dur- 
ing the following six months, than the average of 
the previous four years, or indeed any one of them. 
The whole quantity during the months of May, 
June, July, August, September, and October, 
1847, was 25| ' inches ; while during the ^an** 
months in 1846, there was but 15^ inches ; thowjj 
in 1845 the quantity was as great as this yesu. 
wanting 2& inches. 
It should be recollected, too, that this is the first 
year, and what the effect of the winter will be 
without the indispensable presence of water., as the 
Yarmouth Register would say, remains to be seen. 
The fact, that the roots could be taken dripping 
from their native meadow bed, on the 15th day of 
May, put into a corn field soil, and then, with 
nothing but the rain of heaven upon them, in five 
short months to take root downward, and bear 
fruit upward, is most extraordinary. A specimen 
of the fruit appeared to be as good as the unculti- 
vated fruit of the meadows. The quantity was 
one bushel and thirteen quarts. The land was 
carefully measured, and found to contain 120 rods. 
It ought to be added here, that the field exhibited a 
case of clean culture ; weeds and grass having 
both yielded to the hoe. — Condensed from Trans- 
actions of the Agricultural Societies of Mass . 
DRIVING- HOGS EAST. 
Wherever there is a penny to be made the 
Yankees are on hand to make it. Driving store 
hogs from Northern Ohio to the Brighton market, 
has become quite a business, and a profitable one, 
too. A shrewd Yankee, from the. Berkshire hills, 
comes this way with money in pocket, travels 
round among the Buckeyes ready for a bargain, 
and soon picks up a drove of several hundred hogs 
at from 1 cent to 1^ cents per pound. He buys a 
few sleek horses, and then, with a hired hand or two, 
starts his grunters for down east. He drives them 
at the rate of 12 to 15 miles per day, feeds them 
well, and in about 50 days reaches Albany, where 
the swine are shipped on the cars for Brighton, 
and, increased in weight by the journey, they there 
bring from 5 to 6 cents per pound, alive and 
squealing, and are scattered among the farmers in 
the region round about, to be fattened for customers 
and a market. 
The horses are matched and sold at a handsome 
profit, and the penny being well turned, the Yan- 
kee is ready for another speculation. A drove of 
600 hogs passed through the city yesterday for 
Brighton, bought principally in Hardin and Houron 
counties. — Cleveland Herald. 
Preservation of Books against Mildew. — 
I lightly washed over the back and covers of some 
books with spirits of wine, using as a brush the fea- 
ther of a goose quill. I frequently saw the books 
during the next five years, and I have occasionally 
seen them since, and there has not, so far as I am 
aware, been a single spot of mildew on them since 
the spirits of wine were applied. — Builder. 
Wellerism. — " Come, get up — you've been in 
bed long enough," as the gardener said when he 
was pulling up radishes. 
Drinking water, in moderation, neither makes a 
man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow. — 
Spanish Proverb. 
