. Cranberry culture. Cranberries. PREPARING THE GROUND. sr turfing-ho<! is used for this purpose, made of plate-steel, about six iiiclies wide, and ten inclies loiifj. Before usino* the hoe, ho^.'ever, the dexterous workman cuts his turf in strips, twelv.^ inches wide, with a cleaver or ax. (See fig. 10.) The average cost of turfing is now twenty-five cents per square rod, or |40 per acre. The next step, after loosening the turf, is to remove it; and to accomplish this, the " floats" may be conveyed to the shore, either on barrow^s or railroad cars, and used in constructinsr the.
. Cranberry culture. Cranberries. PREPARING THE GROUND. sr turfing-ho<! is used for this purpose, made of plate-steel, about six iiiclies wide, and ten inclies loiifj. Before usino* the hoe, ho^.'ever, the dexterous workman cuts his turf in strips, twelv.^ inches wide, with a cleaver or ax. (See fig. 10.) The average cost of turfing is now twenty-five cents per square rod, or |40 per acre. The next step, after loosening the turf, is to remove it; and to accomplish this, the " floats" may be conveyed to the shore, either on barrow^s or railroad cars, and used in constructinsr the. Fig 10 —CUTTING AND PARING TURF. surrounding fence. Twenty-five cents per square rod is the price usually paid for "hauling off" the turf and building the fence, or wall. After freeing the ground from turf, the stumps should be cut off even Avith the surface, upon those portions of the meadow which are to be sanded, and removed en- tirely from tliose parts where the sand may be plowed up from beneath. Some of our successful growers consider it a waste of time and money to take up stumps, saying " the vines. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original White, Joseph J. New York, Judd
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