96 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



furnish this shade for the strawberries, hold the snow in the 

 winter for protection, consequently both winter well. 



DISCUSSION. 



A Member: Don't you plant any Concords? 



Mr. Shaver: No, sir. 



A Member: Is that due to the market, or have you any 

 other reason for that? 



Mr. Shaver : It is because the Concords do not ripen. In 

 a favorable country it is very productive, but here only 

 about one-half of thein ripen and tlie other lialf are green, 

 and they are very bad to drop off the vines. They are not as 

 good as tlie Moore's Early, which ripen better and come in 

 earlier than those shipped in; I have always been able to 

 market mine before any others are shipped in. 



Mr. Harrison : Do j^ou prune in the spring, did you say, 

 instead of in the fall ? 



Mr. Shaver : No, sir, in March. 



Mr. Harrison : AVon't they bleed? 



Mr. Shaver: No, sir, until the sap starts they won't. I 

 never had any grapes sjull back; I don't think I liave missed 

 a crop in eleven years, except with some Concords. The 

 Moore's Early I never have had a failure with. 



Another Member: Do I understand you to say that you 

 just left one bud on the spur? 



Mr. Shaver : I don't leave any spur at all ; I keep right up 

 to the vine so there will be no more growth, I don't intend 

 that there shall be any more growth. 



Another IMember: How do you renew it? 



Mr. Shaver: That would be the same in growing to the 

 spur; when you leave your whole branch it grows off side 

 wise, you notice that a big apple on a little stem hangs right 

 straight down ; the same is true of the grape, a big bunch is 

 on the vine of small growth. You trim just about as close 

 as you can, just as you take a limb otf of an appb* tree, but 

 not quite as clos( , I take it off, say a quarter of an inch. 



