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pounds per acre upon one-half, and fourteen two-horse loads of rich horse 

 manure upon the other half Shelling, none, except six rows which I did 

 not fertilize. These shelled badly. 



M. L. Taylor, Portland. Soil similar to that of Mr. Geo. W. Marsh and 

 adjoining it. Fertilizers, applied one ton Canada ashes in 1893 and in 1894 

 repeated the application. Shelling, apparently not benefited by the ashes 

 and about 40 per cent, of the grapes dropping in the worst portions. 



S. S. Grandin, Westfield- Soil, a dry shale, originally not very good ; 

 used about 10 years in raising grain. Fertilizers, on the shale none. Shell- 

 ing, 30 per cent, to 40 per cent. On other land that was manured the shell- 

 ing was from 13 per cent, to 20 per cent. 



E. H. Fay & Son, Portland. Soil, low, flat land consisting of rich, black 

 muck. It was used for growing hay for twenty-five years before the vineyard 

 was set. Fertilizers, none. Shelling, about 20 per cant. Probable cause, 

 extremes of wet and dry weather. 



E. D. Warner, Forestville. Soil, part gravel and part muck mixed witlj 

 loam, this last being inclined to be wet. Fertilizers, the land has had barn- 

 yard manure more or less for twenty-five years, during which time it was 

 used for meadow. Last fall, and the fall before, applied one shovel barnyard 

 manure about each plant. Shelling, from 12 per cent, to 25 per cent, of the 

 crop. Probable cause ; about here the vines do not shell so much on clay 

 land as upon other soils ; they seem to be worse also upon richer lands. 

 There is a meadow on the west side of my vineyard and the two rows next 

 the meadow do not shell ; the third row but little, and the trouble increases 

 towards the center of the vineyard. Nor is there any shelling at the ends 

 of the rows. 



Franklin Peck, Westfield. Soil, not very good and naturally rather poor. 

 Fertilizers, none worth mentioning. Shelling, 20 per cent. 



Frank Maginnis, Portland. ^ozV, clay loam, poor, thin, and dry. During 

 four years previous to setting the vineyard the land was sown to oats, two 

 hundred and fifty pounds of phosphates being used to the acre. The average 

 yield of oats was thirty bushels per acre. Fertilizers, in setting vines used 

 high grade phosphates ; in 1893 used twenty-five hundred pounds of high 

 grade potash on ten acres. That is the part that has shelled the worst. 

 Have used no other fertilizers in six years. Shelling, nearly 25 per cent. 



R. A. Hall, Brocton Soil, black rich loam, rather wet. Fertilizers, none. 

 Shelling, 50 per cent. 



C. M. Whitmier, Brocton. Soil, gravelly loam, well drained. Fertilizers, 

 applied liberal quantities of a mixture of tankage, bone meal, dried blood, 

 and sheep manure to the first row or each side of a road passing through the 

 vineyard. Shelling, very little on the treated rows, 20 per cent, to 30 per 

 cent, on the rows back of the first ones. 



