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profitable. Land suited to the raising of corn, of clean culture 
and pulverized finely, will produce good onions. You cannot 
well get the soil too rich for this crop. Manure used however, 
should be well rotted, fine, and thoroughly mixed with the sur- 
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face soil. Land placed under the highest and best culture has 
been known to produce 1000 bushels per acre. Average crop, 
with good corn soil and fair culture, about 400 bushels. The de¬ 
mand for this crop is steadily increasing, as its valuable and 
healthful properties as an article of food are better understood and 
appreciated. The product for 1873 was above the average and of 
superior quality. 
CRANBERRIES. 
The culture of this crop is rapidly increasing and with the most 
flattering prospect of remunerative returns. The lands adapted 
to this branch of industry are mostly in the central and northern 
portions of the state, and are obtained at prices quite as low as 
good lands for general farm purposes. 
These lands or marshes, in their native state, are some of them 
quite thickly set to the cranberry vine, are producing the fruit in 
considerable quantities, and if favorably located, so that they can 
be readily and at little cost drained and flowed—two important 
requisites in the profitable raising of this crop—will be made 
highly productive and remunerative. 
The Milwaukee Journal of Commerce, in a recent number, speak¬ 
ing of cranberry culture, says: 
“ Respecting their value as a product, we have some Munchausen reports 
•for the year 1873. One gentleman picked from his “ best acre ” 1,373 bush¬ 
els. He received $2.80 per bushel, and as the picking cost him $1.00 per 
bushel, his income from that one acre was $2,461.40. Others had a yield of 
from 700 to 1,000 bushels per acre, but these are examples of the greatest 
yields. Some parties average 113 bushels to the acre, others as low as twenty 
bushels, the latter being marsh just commencing to bear. By the sudden ap¬ 
preciation of the marsh lands producing this article of consumption, many 
have almost instantly found themselves wealthy. Men who, a year or two 
since, would have taken a thousand or two for all they possessed, are now the 
“heaviest” men known to the bankers of their towns.” 
I am of the opinion that the culture of this excellent and health¬ 
ful fruit is to become in a brief period a very important branch of 
