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comes where you want it, cut the whole vine to the ground and start over. 

 It is better to lose a crop or two in order to get the vines into proper shape. 

 No fruit bears better than the grape if it is properly pruned. 



Mr. Dutcher — The new sprout on one-year wood will bear fruit the 

 second year. 



Mr. Ferguson — We leave three spurs and get about two good canes. 



Uriah Pontius — The secret of growing grapes successfully in Morgan 

 county is to test the matter by experience. This takes time, and I have 

 been in the grape business for fifty years ; I have been growing one variety 

 which was brought from Holland for fifty years. I use dry, gravelly 

 ground, if I have it; if not I make it. I have part of my vineyard on 

 gravelly and part on clay soil. I made the hole i8 inches deep, then put in 

 rich soil from the valley around the plant, and gravelly on top. On the 

 clay ground with no natural gravel I hauled loads of gravel from the creek. 

 I put in the black soil, then the gravel. The vines are planted 5 by 10 

 feet. I trim out the foilage one way to let the air through. The vines 

 are grown on a trellis, made with posts seven feet out of the ground, 

 string three wires from bracket nailed on the posts at the heights of 

 three, five and seven feet. Cut the vine back to two buds, and after the 

 fruiting begins cut back considerably. The vines will meet so as to give 

 shade. The grape is not the first fruit for Missouri, but it is profitable 

 and a nice recreation. 



NEWS IN THE CHERRY LINE. 



(By M. Butterfield, Farmington. Mo.) 



A Study of the cherry in all of its ages, from the seedling up to ma- 

 turity, demonstrates that the cherry is one of the first fruit trees to com- 

 plete its growth in the summer. I have seen it successfully transplanted 

 in mid-August. This is one reason why the cherry does well in the sod 

 and around our houses, where the ground gets hard and dry. We find 

 it best to transplant young trees, one year from bud being preferable, or 

 two years old at the most. They should always be on well drained ground, 

 as wet feet mean almost sure death to a cherry. Another important item is 

 to never prune a cherry tree after planting it. I do not know of a single 

 variety of fruit that is injured more by pruning. 



Varieties, well, I must confess that the list is very short. I have 

 tested 40 varieties at Lee's Summit in the last 25 years and can only rec- 

 ommend four for profit. However, I have added some 15 or 20 new 

 ones in the last six years on my experimental grounds in Farmington 

 and hope to get something good out of the lot. But we fruit men live 



