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scale for commercial purposes. For instance, here at Sawyer and in the 

 vicinity adjacent are located the vineyards of the Lakeside Vineyard Co., 

 comprising over 600 acres of grapes in full bearing. This is the largest 

 vineyard under one management in the state. 



Any good dry soil with sufficient drainage is suitable for growing 

 grapes, if the exposure and climate are favorable. Before planting, plow 

 harrow, and pulverize thoroughly down to a depth of twelve or eighteen 

 inches. Plant in row eight to ten feet apart and the plants ten to twelve 

 feet in the rows. There are so many methods of pruning, different 

 methods being adapted to different localities, that we will not dwell on 

 that point only to say that proper pruning is very essential to the suc- 

 cessful growing of grapes, and the method that is proving the best in 

 your locality is the one for you to follow. 



ASPARAGUS. 



A great many have made a failure of growing asparagus simply be- 

 cause they have grown it as a side line and have not given it proper at- 

 tention. Asparagus will grow well in most any soil except low, damp 

 ground, but the land must be under good cultivation and free from weeds. 

 Mark the rows off four and one-half feet apart, making the trenches in 

 which the roots are set by plowing twice in the same furrow with a two- 

 horse plow and then shoveling out the loose earth, making a trench about 

 ten inches deep with a smooth flat surface. The plants are now placed 

 in this trench at a distance of twelve to eighteen inches apart, spreading 

 the roots out flat. Then cover with two or three inches of soil, allow- 

 ing the shoots to come up through, and get a foot or so in height before 

 the trench is filled up level. Or, if you wish, while you are hoeing dur- 

 ing the summer to keep the weeds down, you can fill in the trench a little 

 at a time until it is full. After the first good freeze the tops will die 

 down, and should be cut off and burned, after which the bed should 

 have a liberal covering of well rotted manure, or if you do not have that, 

 in the spring you can apply some commercial fertilizer and harrow in 

 well before growth starts. The following year keep religiously at your 

 cultivating and hoeing, allowing no weeds to appear, and in the fall treat 

 the same as the fall previous. The following year you can commence 

 cutting, but you should not do so before, as cutting off the tender succu- 

 lent roots tends to weaken the plant. After you commence cutting keep 

 right at it every day until along into the summer, after which it must be 

 allowed to grow up and mature. By following these directions any one 

 can have a good asparagus bed, and when you get one well established 

 it is a very lucrative part of your farm. 



THOROUGHNESS IN SPRAYING. 



By E. H. Lamiell, Canton, Ohio. 



There has been so much said about the necessity of and profit to be 

 derived from spraying and so little about practical methods to follow in 

 the spraying operations that a few suggestions to those who have never 



