ABSTRACTS OF HULLETINS OF THE AlHlIGULTUIiAL EXPKIIIMENT STATIONS IN THE 



UNITED STATI*:S. 



Alabama College Station, Bulletin No. 10 (New Series), January, 1890 (pp. 15). 



Grape cultuee, J. S. Newman. — '^ A most anprei)ofesessiug north 

 hillside was selected for a vineyard." In one part of the vineyard tlie 

 ground was very uneven, and in another part the soil had been so com- 

 pletely washed off that the surface was entirely bare of vegetation. 

 An account is given of the preparation, planting, and cultivation of this 

 vineyard, begun in 1886. Peas were planted among the vines for two years, 

 and composts of cotton-seed meal, cotton-seed-hull ashes, acid phosphate, 

 and kainit in different combinations have been used during four years. 

 The third year the standard varieties, such as Concord, Ives, and Perkins, 

 produced an average of 12 pounds per vine, or 4 tons per acre; and in 

 1889 nearly 7 tons of grapes of the different varieties were gathered 

 from the experimental acre. This effort of the Station to promote the 

 culture of grapes in Alabama has excited much interest and is felt to 

 be an imi)ortaut matter. , Two years' experience in the use of paper 

 bags, as described in this bulletin, to protect the grapes against birds, 

 insects, mildew, and black rot, has convinced the experimenters that 

 this is an efficieut and economic means of defending some varieties of 

 grapes against these enemies. The expense involved in the use of 

 the bags has averaged six-tenths of a cent per pound. "It is not prof- 

 itable, however, to bag any except the choice bunches." ]S"otes are 

 given on thirty-nine varieties of grapes grown at the station. Berck- 

 man's (a new variety), Concord, Delaware, Goethe, Ives, Moore's Early, 

 Niagara, Perkins, and Wyoming Bed, are especially recommended for 

 general culture. 



Alabama College Station, BuUetinNo. 11 (New Series), February, 1890 (pp. 13). 



Notes from the experiment station orchard, J. S. New- 

 man. — 



Peaches. — lu March, 1885, thirty-six varieties of biulded peaches were planted npou 

 a sandy ridge, which jiroduced in 1884 only 13G pounds of seed cotton per acre with- 

 out manure. By the side of these twenty-two seedling trees were planted. Next to 

 these one row was planted with seed from which a dozen healthy trees were grown 

 and left where they sprang up. The object in view was to compare the praductive- 

 ness, hardiness, and longevity of tr.anspl anted budded trees, transplanted seedlings, 

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