PRACTICAL PAPERS —CRANBERRY CULTURE. 395 
a large outlet ditch, an earth dam, two waste gates, a main ditch 
leading to them, and each forty acres surrounded with a three foot 
ditch; also a one foot ditch through the center of each forty, both 
ways, cutting it into four squares/ I am not posted as to the 
products of this marsh. 
The next marsh of great value and importance, which almost 
magically sprang into existence, is the Cary marsh. This marsh is 
now taking the lead of all others in quantity of fruit; the vines 
being young and vigorous. It has not, however, reached its max¬ 
imum product, since a portion of the vines are too young. The 
product of the best forty (on which are the oldest vines in the 
marsh), in 1872, was thirty-two hundred barrels, which netted, I 
understand, about twenty-four thousand dollars. This forty has 
undoubtedly reached its maximum, or nearly so, of product, until 
the vines are cut off and renewed, which will enlarge the fruit and 
increase the quantity to four thousand barrels. The Cary broth¬ 
ers have three hundred acres, covered with vines; on this marsh, 
they have twelve miles of ditch, large and small. Their first crop 
worthy of note was in 1868, and was between two and three hun¬ 
dred barrels. From that time to this, the product has been as fol¬ 
lows : 1869, one thousand barrels ; 1870, two thousand, eight 
hundred barrels; 1871, four thousand barrels; 1872, eight thou¬ 
sand, three hundred barrels. Eighteen years ago, they discovered 
the first vines on this marsh, and from that small patch of vines, 
without any setting, have spread out and covered an area of five 
hundred acres, there being two hundred acres owned by other par¬ 
ties in the same marsh, now covered with vines. 
The results following the improvements on the Sacket marsh, 
stimulated all parties owning cranberry lands to active measures 
in making improvements, and of investing largely in this com¬ 
paratively new and productive branch of industry. 
Necessary Preparations for Cultivation. —First, after the tract is 
surveyed, and your outlet determined upon, make some trial 
levels from which to locate the main ditches, the width and depth 
of which will depend upon the character of the marsh, varying 
from four to ten feet in width, and from one to two feet in depth. 
After these are cut, then cut side ditches, from one to three feet in 
width, and from ten to forty rods apart, and clear the surface of all 
