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Mr. Van Deusen. Such a vine would bear about how 

 many ? 



Mr. Hale. From one four-year-old vine of the Early 

 Victor variety, we picked this year about seventeen pounds. 



Mr. Van Deusen. We have some forty vines. A year ago 

 we had a grape-vine on the side of our house where they 

 picked two bushels of Concord grapes. We have an arbor 

 about 330 feet long. I stood one day looking at that vine on 

 the side of the house, and I said, " There are more grapes 

 on the side of the house than there are on 660 feet of arbor." 

 I took it into my head to see if there could not be something 

 done. I had trimmed to two buds heretofore and rubbed off 

 the first one, leaving only one that fruited. This vine is ten 

 years old and it has borne every year since it was three years 

 old. This year I have no doubt it Jiad six bushels ; the year 

 before I think they told me it bore ten bushels. I think that 

 when you cut a vine down to one bud or two buds it is a great 

 shock to the system. A grape-vine, and especially a Con- 

 cord vine which is a very rapid grower, should have plenty of 

 room, and if you set your vines further apart, you would get 

 better grapes and more of them, and we should not have to 

 pay the nursery man so much for vines. (Laughter and 

 applause.) 



Mr. Blot. I would like to ask Mr. Hale if, in this climate, 

 we do not have a stronger vine and better fruit if we trim 

 the Concord to six or seven feet ? 



Mr. Hale. The best fruit I have seen grown here has 

 been grown on a stalk not more than five or six feet high. 



Mr. Blot. In Europe, along the Rhine, and through 

 France and Germany, they cut the vines down to four feet ; 

 but does not the Concord require a little higher trellis than 

 9ther grapes in this country ? 



Mr. Hale. It is a little freer grower than others. I should 

 not think you would get any better fruit. 



Mr. Hinman. I would like to inquire if the Rogers No. 4 

 does not want more wood than the Concord — a great deal? 



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