The usual method is to cut across the bog in parallel lines eighteen inches apart, and again at right angles in parallel lines in the same manner, thus leaving the turf in square blocks about eighteen inches square. Two men with long-handled, four-pronged bog-hooks follow the cutters, pulling over the turf, which, after the ditching is finished, should be chopped up, and so rendered suitable for making the surface as smooth as possible, when the work of final grading is completed. We are now ready for ditching; the manner and methods necessary to secure the best possible drainage being subject, of course, to such varied conditions as to render it difficult to describe. But if there were but three essential features of special importance, two of them would be drainage. All of the ditches should be dug with flaring banks, so as to prevent caving in of the sides of the ditch, and thus making constant trouble. A ditch, in any case, around the entire bog is an essential feature in drainage, and to carry-off the cold surface water, as well as a preventive of much difficulty in cultivation, etc. If the ditches are thoroughly well made they will need but little repairing or cleaning, and here as elsewhere in preparing the bog the most careful attention on the part of the superintendent will prove the cheapest in the end. After the ditches are completed, the bog must be graded until it is as smooth and level as a lawn. In grading the bog the levels must be run in such a manner that it can be easily flooded with water, since sometimes it may be desirable to do this as expeditiously as possible, and the necessary arrangements to do this should be provided at this time. * * * * * NORTH HARWICH, MASS., Oct. 19, 1891. I have been in the habit of using Bradley’s Fertilizer on my cranberry bogs for a number of years, and consider it very beneficial. It pushes the new vines along to a bearing condition much earlier than would be the case if left to depend on the natural strength of the soil, and by covering the ground quicker with vines the grass and brush are not so likely to get a start. It also does well on old vines, increasing the crop, and the size and quality of the berry. Last spring, to my sorrow, I neglected to apply this phosphate to my old bog, and on gathering my crop this fall I found I had made a great mistake. Shall use it another year, without fail. BENJ. F. HALL. * * * * * HARWICHPORT, MASS., Oct. 19, 1891. I have used Bradley’s Fertilizer for growing cranberries, and find it very beneficial. New vines come to bearing one year earlier by its use, and grass and weeds are crowded out, and do not get the foothold they are apt to where vines grow slowly, and are a long while covering the ground.