The fire, span, tip, and fruit worms rank in the order named as the most destructive,--the first two in the list blasting in a few hours an almost assured and abundant crop. The larger growers, after experimenting with perhaps all of the known insecticides, have most generally adopted some form of tobacco preparation, applied in solution in the form of a spray, upon the first indication of the approach of the fire-worm. So extensive is the use of tobacco, that one grower, Mr. Franklin Crocker, of Hyannis, treasurer of the South Sea Cranberry Company, who has probably given as much attention as any other grower to this branch of the business, informs us that for himself and others he purchased, in its various forms, over five thousand dollars’ worth of tobacco during the past two years, for this purpose. Mr. Crocker tells of his experience with tobacco in his letter on page 3 of cover. Many growers (not all) are able to resort to “Spring Flowage” as an effective and cheap remedy for fire-worms. That this is effective there can be no question, but in its application for destroying the worm it is injurious to the keeping quality of the fruit when gathered. THE HARVEST. The picking of berries commences about the first of September. They should be picked as soon as the greater part have put on a good, fair color. The great mistake in the past has been in allowing the berries to become over size. The trade has demanded _dark_ berries, which made the Early Blacks so popular; but all that was gained in _color_ was at the sacrifice of the keeping quality, to the injury of the grower and dealer. This is becoming so well recognized that “pick early” comes with the greater emphasis from all the larger dealers, who, by sad experiences, have become more interested in this particular feature than the grower, who, gathering his harvest of beautiful fruit, has also immediately gathered in the skekels, recognizing that “the best time to sell is right off the bog.” Thus has he “Sown to the Wind;” and while disaster has been delayed, its coming is manifest in the experience of the past season, when in some cases the crop has not paid expenses. An old receipt, “How to cook a hare,” began, “First catch the hare.” We have endeavored to tell you how to get the crop; and now, supposing you have this, we will give you an idea of how it is gathered, so far as may be of interest to the uninitiated: Lines are drawn across the bog, from eight to twenty feet apart, as a guide for keeping in place those pickers who incline otherwise to the right or left, as “spots” thick or thin allure or repel them in their eagerness “to fill the measure.” Then, placing as many pickers within the lines as can have sufficient “elbow room,” picking length-wise, they proceed to pick.