574 now TO make tite taum pay. 



Never let the same cane bear twice, nor let one cane grow 

 taller than the others and rob them of their nourishment. {Fig. 

 183 explained on page 60-i,) represents this system of horizontal 

 ftrm tniining and alternate renewal 



The Objections urged against grape culiure are, that the 

 preparation of the ground is toe expensive ; the cost of the vines 

 too great; the trellis too expensive; pruning too complicated; 

 the life of 'the vines too urtcertain; the time before the returns 

 come in too long ; and the market too uncertain. Every one 

 of these objections arises from an entire misapprehension. The 

 grape does not require large quantities of barnyard manure oi 

 fertilizers ; if it did it would pay to give it all it required to 

 the amount of one thousand dollars per acre ; but its wants are 

 very simple, being confined to a little lime, and plenty of leaf 

 mould and muck, which can usually be had for the drawmg. 

 Can it possibly cost over one dollar per load ? Allow one 

 hundred loads to the acre, and you have a cost of one hundred 

 dollars. Add to tliis the cost of plowing, subsoiling, cross- 

 plowing after the manure is put on, harrowing and cross- 

 harrowing, and you have an acre prepared for a crop that will 

 bear for fifty years. 



We say nothing about underdraining, because a soil that is 

 too wet should be underdrained, whatever crop you put on it. 

 Again, tens of thousands of acres in every Eastern State which 

 arc almost worthless for any other crop, if prepared in this way 

 will at once increase in value tenfold, and will make returns 

 in grapes that will astonish their owners. 



The cost of plants is a heavy item when they are bought at 

 the nursery, but, by the plan we have recommended, from ten 

 vines you can in four years raise all the plants you will want 

 for an acre, and sell cuttings enough to pay the whole expense 

 The demand for plants is immense and increasing, and must 



