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1 am experimeutiug some along the same line as Mr. SacUsteder, and 1 

 have seedlings from the Missouri Kistling and quite a number of others. 

 Some are not three years old, but if I live two or three years longer I hope 

 to be able to give you some information about raising seedlings. 



Now, the kinds I have mentioned are the kinds I have raised for 

 family use. My experience in raising for money led me into a little error. 

 From the first plants, in about four years' time, I netted sixty cents to 

 the vine, and I had planted tbem six feet one way and eight feet the 

 other. Well that set me wild! There was nothing else I could have got- 

 ten that much money from, and I figured it out that I was going to make 

 money, and I set out a considerable vineyard, and that is the last time 

 I have realized a profit from it. P>ut I give it as my opinion that grape 

 raising can be made profitable in my locality if you can find a market for 

 them at two cents a pound. If we get that we can make grape raising 

 profitable on these hills, but for less than that we can not. I have sold 

 some of my grapes at two cents a pound and the buyers came and helped 

 me to gather them, and there is a profit in them at that. But even if you 

 fail to get the money for them, there is one thing sure^there is a whole lot 

 of good eating in them, anyhow. 



Mr. Ritterskamp: As far as the Moore's Early is concerned, they have 

 sold for five cent.s a ])ound, because they come in before other grapes, and 

 are raised in small quantities, for a limited demand. I believe they are 

 very profitable. Uur.s liave borne forty pounds to each vine, and are the 

 most profitable I have. 



Mr. Sacksteder: The Ives seedling is ihe best of our grapes. The 

 Moore's Early is part Ives seedling and part Missouri Ristling. 



Mr. Ritterskamp: I should like to ask some of the ladies how to make 

 unfermented grape Juice, if it is in the line of this discussion. 



Mrs. Fawcett; I have squeezed the Juice out of the berry in an ama- 

 teur way, heated it veiy hot and bottled it, and it kept very nicely. Did 

 not sweeten at all. 



Mr. Ritterskamp: The nicest thing I have heard of is grape shrub. 

 Take twelve pounds of grapes and squeeze the juice out and add a cup of 

 vinegar, and the n'?xt morinng strain it and add a cup and a half of 

 sugar, and bottle that nnd use that in the summer for a drink, and it is 

 fine. 



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Mrs. Forsythe: I liave liad some exjierience in making unfermented 

 Juice and keeping it successfully. I liave a market for all I can manu- 

 facture of that, and the process is very simple. I gather the grapes 

 and iiick them carefully and wash them. I have an Ideal cooker, and I 

 place them in that iind steam them Just enough to make them jiop open. 



