Show THE CRANBERRYTTT ETHE or o Cranberry ff ra brrl u a flu Crop The cstabllGhmcnt of u cranberry bog foqulrca time expense and pationco Brat once in good form there It i little fcutlay In keeping it in condition A vnolat collie f necessary Experience hast has-t Airovcd A peat or muck soil free from loam Dr clay Is required dooo sand for erg tho 1 Mat and alTallgemoot > hereby the vines can bo flowed when I lacccasory ami finally thorough drainage In the colder part of the country the vines are flooded in inter to protect l them from frost the usual time being from late October to the 1st of May 18 to 21 J inches of water being considered enfflclcnt according to Thn Orange Judd 1 Tanner authority for the following I In preparing swamplands bushes and stumps must be removed and tho surface coiled with 1 to 8 Inches of sand When j properly drained and ditched the laud Is ready for tho vines Tim sand is cs tcntial in order to choke Ibo growth of Voods and Brass Clay tend loamy Band she avoided On coils thus pro Pa rt > But methoil planting vivre is tL jco them in row f marked out 14 Inchon apart two vines at each point 11 lochw riart In tin rows Xhul4ut are presses Into the grouua alai Ilia roots chute 1 to tho muck below Another method sometimes employed in Jersey Is to spread the vines evenly over the 0rCuca ot Ibo meadow cater about OD inch deep with sand the young shoots later coming up ui thick as wheat nod makiiii an excellent groWtlL Some sued < sue-d by sowing cuttings the vines being be-ing passed 1 through a straw cutter and ihoppnl into pieces about tui inch long There ore sown early lu spring and ou prepared ground and Imrrovi cd in Much attention must Lo given to drainage and thin goes fur to make or mar the lurk Cranberries aro gathered in September Septem-ber and October and will ordinarily keep well In places suit iblo for storing apples or other fruit with ns low a tcmiieratnro n3 pocslbla to nvold freez log Thorough ventilation b very wcu tial A successful Cujio Cod grower in estimating the cost of harvesting and marketing cranberries places this at about J3 25 per barreL This figure dew not take Into account tho outlay of time and money Lcforo a crnnlcrry bog is I in bearing nor interest on permanent Investment In-vestment 1rlcns ore governed nol only by the size of the commercial crop but also bl the abundance or scarcity of other f raits A year ago good to choice berries sold 1 nti CO to SI but in tho Masom ol great plenty us the present one Ibo price is lunch lower frequently dow to 1 to 2 per bushel In considering cranberries cran-berries us n money crop none growrs who have bad wMa cxpericuco claim the profit is small und uncertain The market is email coumunptlou docs not hove at homo and efforts to Introduce cranberries abroad have amounted tc little up to the present time WIt Wrkro Th accompanying cut at the workroom work-room ot 0 booboos gardener Is from Drcer book Vegetables Under Glass and furnishes n valuable sag gentian 10 liU1oel1l fI8 yet nupronded with a comfortable workroom The room is well lighted and ha berth water and heat Tho floor is co merited with draluago under tho wash TfUIl J Nf45H IVB owmx 06011 l I f0R tYAGOI LJ BUSINESS GARDENERS TVORKROOil log box The market wagon Is I backed into tho sam apartment nnd stands a few inches I lover than the cemented floor A w < Jden platform Is provided for tontge of baskets crates etc while n stairway leads to another story or loft Them Is u door both trout and back and the worktables can bo put wherevei desired The cement floor makes it pos sable to scrub up frequently and them Is uo danger of the floor becoming rotten AEricalturat nrevitler Knfflr corn Is adapted to all soils and to regions too dry for com In tests with tomatoes at the Minnesota Minne-sota station the largest yield was obtained ob-tained from tho Early Advance Belmont Bel-mont ranking next The largest percent ago of goal fruit 05 was produced by Laudreth Na 1 At 1 the Minnesota station Trench Chevalier proved to bo the best out of 31 varieties of barley followed by Odes so Champion of Vermont Highland Chief Black llullcsi and Salzcr The acreage of alfalfa will steadily increase In Oklahoma It has proved to lo ono of the moot profitable crops that can bo grown 111 the west In Washington and Oregon extensive rests of sugar beets hate been made under un-der tho auspices of tho state stations The report is that there Is i no doubl about the ability of vast areas In both these stairs to produce beets as good AS those In California Tho same is true In largo measure of other sections of the aria west I |