6o State Horticultural Society. 



the different kind of soil, we have been able to learn the best land for 

 each variety and the best variety for each slope. 



Our company made some mistakes in varieties when setting their 

 first vineyard, and after some years of testing they found their mistake 

 and destroyed all the unprofitable vines and reset the ground anew in 

 varieties best suited to their wants. Still, we find that we have some 

 varieties now that are not very profitable, such as Concord, Moore's Early 

 and Delaware. While we only have about three-fourths of an acre of 

 Moore's Early and a few vines of Concord, we find them not suitable for 

 the production of wine, and they rot badly and are unprofitable anyway. 

 The Delware combines one of the best table and wine grapes. We 

 have about two acres, but our soil or climate does not suit them, and if we 

 had our own way about them they would be taken out. 



The next best table grape we have is Ives Seedling, and for our 

 climate and soil it is the most prolific grape known to us, producing at least 

 ten pounds of grapes to one pound of Concord or Moore's Early, a 

 strong vigorous grower and free from rot, but they are not considered 

 a first-class table grape, but if allowed to properly ripen on the vine they 

 compare very well with the Concord. They do not produce a high grade 

 wine; however, if I were planting largely on my own account, I would 

 plant Ives Seedling. Our company are not growing grapes for market, but 

 for the production of wine, so we have no choice, and are growing largely 

 of Norton's Virginia and Cynthiana for red wine, Noah, Elvira and Mis- 

 souri Reisling for white wine. We also have some Clinton that produce 

 either white or red wine, but they rot too badly to be profitable. 



Care of the vines is a very important part of the work, requiring 

 skill and lots of work, and for the latter we spare not the plow or hoe. 



Our Norton's Virginia, Cynthiana, Ives Seedling, Moore's Early 

 and a part of the Noah are on trellis. 



These trellises are made by setting posts nine feet long at every third 

 vine in the row and leaving seven feet out of the ground, and on top of 

 these posts we have a cross piece three feet long nailed across the top 

 of the post, and on top of this cross arm we have four No. 12 galvanized 

 wires stretched the full length of the row, and a vineyard stake six feet 

 long is driven at each vine, and the vines are tied to the stakes and on 

 up to the trellis wire, and each straggling vine that protrudes too far out 

 from the wire is brought back and tied. Trellising in this way gives 

 us an opportunity to cultivate with the plow both ways, but there are 

 other reasons that we trellis this way for. We believe that all fungi 

 originate from decaying vegetable matter, and the fungi are carried up 

 by the heated atmosphere that rises from the earth coming in contact 



