Slimmer Meeting. 57 



Mr. Morrill.— I would like to ask if the Munson's variety has been 

 tried successfully here. 



Pres. Robnett. — I think they have by some of our planters and some 

 have thought well of it. 



Mr, Morrill. — A few do fairly well in Georgia. 



N. Engle, Warrensburg, Mo. — I want to get a few vines and would 

 like to know how to take care of them. I would like to know when to 

 cultivate them ; when is too early and when is too late, so that they will 

 produce the best. 



Pres. Robnett. — The gentleman in the paper said from May ist to 

 August 1st. 



Mr. Morrill. — We cultivate right up to the time they begin to color, 

 then we quit. But when I first started in the grape business, I was 

 surrounded with considerable timber with all kinds of birds in it, and 

 I discovered, in order to grow my grapes and put them on the market 

 in the best possible shape, I had to bag them. I used to bag all my fruit 

 in one and two-pound paper bag-s and kept that up until the whole country 

 went to growing grapes, then I had to quit. That keeps off the dust, 

 birds and black rot to a great extent. 



Mr. Engle. — How soon did you bag the grapes? 



Mr. Morrill. — Just as soon as they got out of bloom. One year I 

 put on seventeen thousand bags, pinning them with the common iron 

 pins, which are not very expensive. 



Pres. Robnett. — I never fail to bag my grapes. I have some grapes 

 in my back yard, some on the wood shed and some on the back porch 

 and grow enough for my own use. I mulched some with coal cinders. 

 I grow a great many around my house in that way and got some fine 

 specimens without any cultivation. Grow them where there is plenty 

 of loose earth. As soon as the bloom falls, put them in bags and they 

 will be larger, sweeter and will last longer. I have never failed to have 

 grapes when I put them in bags. 



Mr. Nelson. — I bag all my grapes, and think they grow much more 

 perfect. This keeps off all fungi and birds. I cultivate them about 

 once every two weeks to keep the weeds down and to get the ground in 

 good growing condition. I grow five or six varieties for home use and 

 sell some to home markets. I sometimes use a small A harrow with 

 handles so as not to tear the vines. We try to get over them every two 

 weeks. 



Prof. Dutcher. — En growing grapes for home use in town, people 

 think it is a great thing to have grapes on arbors. Arbor vines do not 

 make good grapes. Put them on posts, not very high, running north 



