. Cranberry culture. Cranberries. PREPARING THE GROUND. 37 turfing-hoe is used for this purpose, made of plate-steel, about six inches wide, and ten inches long. Before using the hoe, however, the dexterous workman cuts his turf in strips, twelve inches wide, with a cleav^er or ax. (See fig. 10.) The average cost of turfing is now tw^enty-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 barrows or railroad cars, and used in constructing the. Fig. 10.—CUTTING AND
. Cranberry culture. Cranberries. PREPARING THE GROUND. 37 turfing-hoe is used for this purpose, made of plate-steel, about six inches wide, and ten inches long. Before using the hoe, however, the dexterous workman cuts his turf in strips, twelve inches wide, with a cleav^er or ax. (See fig. 10.) The average cost of turfing is now tw^enty-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 barrows or railroad cars, and used in constructing 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 with the surface, upon those portions of the meadow which are to be sanded, and removed en- tirely from those 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. [from old catalog]. New York, O. Judd co.
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