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filled with earth. If they are set in a bunch in the
middle of the hole, and the soil placed or filled in close
around them, it keeps them too close or compact to do
well.
3. My cranberries that I depend on are surrounded
by wood and brush, so that they are not exposed to
winds and are warm; such a situation,! think, is much
to be preferred to one that is cold and bleak.
4. I flood my premises at the time the worm makes
its appearance, and no other time.
Yours in great haste,
Cyrus Cahoon.
December 3d, 1855.
LETTER III.
Dear Sir:—In reply to your inquiry regarding
my success in cultivating a certain piece of cranberry
ground, which I have selected near the sea-shore and
by a sandy pond, where the tide had in previous years
flooded it with salt water during heavy storms, I
would say: I commenced stopping out the water by
throwing up dikes; after which I planted a few vines
near the pond. The next summer the vines most of
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filled with earth. If they are set in a bunch in the
middle of the hole, and the soil placed or filled in close
around them, it keeps them too close or compact to do
well.
3. My cranberries that I depend on are surrounded
by wood and brush, so that they are not exposed to
winds and are warm; such a situation,! think, is much
to be preferred to one that is cold and bleak.
4. I flood my premises at the time the worm makes
its appearance, and no other time.
Yours in great haste,
Cyrus Cahoon.
December 3d, 1855.
LETTER III.
Dear Sir:—In reply to your inquiry regarding
my success in cultivating a certain piece of cranberry
ground, which I have selected near the sea-shore and
by a sandy pond, where the tide had in previous years
flooded it with salt water during heavy storms, I
would say: I commenced stopping out the water by
throwing up dikes; after which I planted a few vines
near the pond. The next summer the vines most of
