May, 1921 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 9 



Currant Grape Growing 



THE heavy importation of currants 

 into this country and the profitable 

 price received for them has caused con- 

 siderable investigation on the part of 

 horticulturists with the view of ascer- 

 taining the possibilities of producing 

 the currant grape in the United States. 



The viticultural investigations of the 

 United States Department of Agrieul 

 ture, therefore, have demonstrated thai 

 the choicest varieties of these currant 

 grapes, which formerly it was believed 

 could not be made to bear sufficiently, 

 can be made to produce regular and 

 good crops, and the specialists in the 

 department state that this paves the 

 way for the establishment of another 

 very important and extensive grape in- 

 dustry in this country. 



An exceedingly important feature in 

 connection with this new fruit industry 

 is that currant grapes are among the 

 very earliest to ripen. In fact they ripen 

 so early that they can be dried and put 

 away before the earliest rains occur in 

 districts where other raisin varieties are 

 too late in ripening. In the present 

 raisin producing sections id* the coun- 

 try currants can be grown as an advance 

 crop and cured and stored by the time 

 other raisin grapes ripen, so that the 

 same labor employed in harvesting and 

 curing currant grapes can harvest and 

 cure the other raisins after having ac- 

 complished that work. 



Experiments made by the United 

 States Department of Agriculture at 

 the Fresno experiment vineyard indi- 

 cate that when vines of the currant 

 grape are planted at distances the equi- 

 valent of 8 by 8 feet apart, an acre of 

 good vineyard in this country will yield 

 from 6 to 15 tons (an average of 10l/o 

 tons) of grapes, or, conservatively, from 

 2 to 5 tons of cured currants. From 

 this it is estimated that 3,400 to 8,500 

 acres would be necessary to produce the 

 34,000,000 pounds of currants which 

 are annually imported into this country. 



The Value of Tillage 



THE importance of tillage cannot be 

 too strongly emphasized. Many 

 years ago a student of plant pathology 

 coined the phrase "tillage is manure". 

 This idea of the benefits of tillage still 



holds good and in fact intensive cult i 

 vation of all root crops is practiced to 

 a greater degree today than ever be- 

 fore. Before plant food can be taken 

 up by the tender roots it must be dis- 

 solved in water, tilt- solution then being 

 taken up by the roots. The finer the 

 soil is pulverized the greater is the 

 surface exposed to soil water, result- 

 ing in more plant food being dissolved 



and made available for the plant roots. 



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