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allow. I harrow just before they come up, and cultivate to 

 keep clean. I lay by with cultivator, and dig with a two-horse 

 plow. Strike a furrow on each side of the row, and then throw 

 out the potatoes with another furrow. By skipping a few rows 

 and working two lands at a time, all hands can work to better 

 advantage. 



VINEYARD. 



My vineyard is on bottom land. The soil is a light clay 

 loam. I have my vines planted eight feet apart each way, and 

 trained to a trellis. My surplus crop in 1878, from sixty bear- 

 ing vines, was about nine hundred pounds ; sold at six cents a 

 pound. My varieties are Concord and Dracut Amber. The 

 latter I sold grapes from on the 26th of June. The crop of 

 1879 was injured by the late frost, and I sold less than one 

 hundred pounds. I have let my vines sucker more than I 

 ought this year, perhaps, but I want to start them out in better 

 shape by encouraging a large growth of wood. 



CHEREIES. 



I have fifty trees in bearing, the early May or Richmond 

 and the common Morello being my favorites. Of the crop of 

 1878, I sold two hundred quarts, at eight cents a quart. The 

 crop of 1879 was light. My trees are mostly planted twelve 

 feet apart ; some twenty-four feet, which make the best yield. 

 Some trees near the house have yielded over one bushel each. 



BLACKBERRIES. 



I have the Lawton and Kittatiny. I .planted them out 

 and allowed them to run wild. They are too crowded, and I 

 shall thin them out and set in rows eight feet wide. I sold in 

 1878, 122 quarts, at eighteen cents a quart. In 1879 they were 

 Winter-killed to the ground. 



PEACHES. 



My orchard contains two hundred trees, which have 

 generally brought me in more easy money than any thing else. 

 My sales for 1878 were f 103.50. The fruit I put up in a third 

 of a bushel crate, and hauled fifteen miles to market. Yet 



