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of fruit. If the vine is setting too mucli fruit remove some of it. If one 

 does not wisli to trellis just keep the main stem tied to the stake and 

 headed down to twenty-eight or thirty inches, allowing bearing sheets 

 to issue directly from it, and heading these shoots back every year to two 

 buds.t 



The expense of starting a vineyard is large; and is itemized about as 

 follows: Land, $50 per acre; good, deep plowing, $2.50; harrowing, $1; 

 digging holes, $15; stakes, $8; planting, $12; vines, $40.50; cultivating, 

 first season, eight times, $8; hoeing, $3; tying and pinching latterals, $4; 

 total for first season, $143.50 per acre. The second year, winter pruning, 

 $2.50; cultivating, etc., for season, $20. The third year the trellis will 

 cost $50, pruning, etc., $25, bringing total cost to $241. The vineyard 

 should pay its own way after the .third year, and be in full bearing by 

 eight or nine years, when it should produce five tons or more of fruit per 

 acre each year. 



WHAT TO PLANT. 



Among the best of the varieties that have been thoroughly tested in 

 Oregon, are Concord, Worden, Moore, and Eaton for black grapes; Nia- 

 gara, Diamond, and Green Mountain for white grapes, and Delaware and 

 Brighton for red grapes. All of these varieties will yield well and ripen, 

 perfectly in a favorable season and cannot fail to give satisfaction, ex- 

 cept that Worden will be found too soft for shipment. 



Do not attempt to grow such varieties as Black Hamburg, Sweetwater^ 

 or Muscat; they are not well adapted to this climate. 



