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the State. One of them, it appears, constantly pinches back his 

 vines, while the other trains them very high. By the latter system 

 it seems he has had wonderful success, but he does not tell us any- 

 thing about pinching, and the idea occurred to me right here (and it 

 may be an encouragement to new beginners) that after all that has 

 been said there is possibly more in the style of the man than there is 

 in the style of the pruning. 



Mr. Tuttle. I think the vine requires different treatment on different 

 soils. Different varieties of grapes require different treatment. Now, 

 this first paper advanced the idea that we must have a considerable 

 amount of canes. That depends upon the variety of grape. I have 

 never been able to raise grapes on rich soil without long canes. 

 With the Concord on rich soil it requires a good deal of vine. You 

 can pinch back and cut back closely while the vine is young, but the 

 Concord needs more vine in a rich soil than others. There is a gentle- 

 man in my neighborhood who has two Concord vines that have been 

 growing for a number of years. He has grown from six to nine hun- 

 dred pounds of fruit on those two vines. He gives them abundance of 

 cane, and the crop is as regular as the year comes around. If you put 

 the Concord on heavy clay, which is the best soil you can put it in, it 

 don't need so much top cane as it does on the rich prairie soil. We 

 practice pinching off before blossoming; I find it increases the weight 

 of the cluster to nearly double. Since we have practiced that we have 

 had no trouble in getting very large clusters of grapes, and an abund- 

 ance of them. 



A man in our place had a Rogers vine, and a cow bit off the end of 

 it. That vine produced wonderful clusters; he went on and treated 

 his vineyard in that way, and I never saw such clusters for fruit. I 

 can go in there and get a bushel of grapes of the heaviest clusters as 

 large as we ever exhibited at our State fair. I commenced the same 

 practice (but I don't use a Jersey cow) and I have had a very good 

 proportion of large clusters ever since. I pinch off the ends of the 

 vine just before blossoming. I am very confident that practice will 

 increase the quantity of fruit, and it will certainly add to the size of 

 the bunches. 



Mr. Kellogg. I have listened with interest to these two admirable 

 papers that are more particularly designed for professional growers, 

 noted the different modes of treatment of the soil, and the different 

 methods of cultivation; one mulches and the other plows deep. One 

 of them, perhaps both, practices summer pinching and summer prun- 



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