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and as quick as the snow is ott' I will finish. I find that few 

 farmers raise grapes, and 1 think the best and easiest way to 

 get rid of a crop is to do as 1 did. I got three cents a pound. 

 I told them three cents a pound and do your own picking. 

 The first day last fall 1 had forty-two families there and there 

 are about four in a family ; I took in something over $75 one 

 afternoon. 



A Member : Did you get pay for all the grapes that went 

 out that afternoon? 



Mr. Davidson: I think not, although I got pay for quite 

 a lot. The worst trouble I had was where I let them pick 

 them and they would not pick them clean. Some persons 

 will have to pick on four or five different rows to fill a basket. 

 They see a bunch off here and they are going to have it. 



A Member : How do you trim? 



Mr. Davidson : I leave 3 or 4 buds on the new growth, and 

 I leave quite a lot of old ones. Two years ago my grapes 

 froze off and I had over half a crop in the dormant bud, com- 

 ing out the second time. 



A Member: Do they ever kill down in the winter? 



Mr. Davidson : One year they all killed to the ground, 

 ^bout four years ago. I noticed one thing the year my crop 

 all killed to the ground. There happened to be a few vines 

 lying on the ground that got covered with dirt two or three 

 inches deep and those vines were living Avhere the ends were 

 covered. That convinced me that the killing of the grape is 

 but a question of drying out. I don't care how much cold 

 there is if there is four or five inches of snow I don't see how 

 they can dry out. That first heavy freeze we had some of the 

 white grapes killed back two feet. 



A Member: Do you do much trimming in the summer 

 season? 



Mr. Davidson : I have tried that some, but I believe thor- 

 ough cultivation is best. 



A Member : Have you been doing that all of the time dur- 



