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The Grape Culturist. 



win 68 in advance of their neigh- 

 bors. 



By accident, we have found our- 

 selves applying the method to a cask 

 of wine when we least expected to, 

 and hasten to inform the world how it 

 can be done. 



Drive a straight faucet into the cask, 

 as for drawing off wine, slip a piece 

 of rubber hose on the faucet and have 

 a plug for the end ; now, with the 

 plug in the end of the hose, turn the 

 faucet "on," and the air confined in 

 the hose slowly bubbles up through 

 the Avine ; repeat by shutting off at the 

 faucet, and letting the wine out of the 

 hose into a bucket at hand for the 

 purpose, plugging it up again and 

 letting the air up as before. If the 

 hose is a full length piece, it is pre- 

 sumed that it contains air enough for 

 one application. 



This way of applying the method 



can be further extended by having 

 a small, perforated coj)per tube sold- 

 ered to the faucet, running into the 

 cask its length, and inclined upwards. 



With casks all provided with fau- 

 cets, we believe a man with hose in 

 hand can introduce the 'air as expe- 

 ditiously as with an air-pump, which, 

 we presume, is the apparatus the in- 

 ventor has for sale. 



Of course, whoever applies air to 

 his wine by injectment, whether by 

 this means or any other, becomes lia- 

 ble to the inventor for his royalty of 

 one cent per gallon on wine thus 

 treated, and if this invention is as 

 valuable as it is believed to be, we 

 for one would be the last to defraud 

 him of this trifling consideration. 



D. W. T. 



Heumann, Mo., November, 1869. 



[An excellent hint. Please let us know 

 the result of your experiments. — Ed.] 



NOTES ON THE NOVEMBEE CULTUETST. 



BY JOHN J. WERTH. 



Pruning the Yine. — The editorial 

 under this head should be not simply 

 read, but cai'efully studied by all cul- 

 tivators of the vine of limited experi- 

 ence. It is worth a years' subscrip- 

 tion to all such. More sound, practi- 

 cal advice, on the subject of pruning, 

 is rarely met with in so few words. 

 ," Do not go to work like an automa- 

 ton, without forethought, nor employ 

 any one who is not willing to think 

 while he works." This wise injunc- 



tion might well be posted at the en- 

 trance of many vineyards. If I were 

 to name the one obstacle which pre- 

 sents the greatest obstruction to suc- 

 cess in the culture of the vine, it 

 would bo the pernicious practice of 

 enforcing one rigid sj^stem upon every 

 variety, without the least consultation 

 of their widely different habits. Con- 

 gress might as well dictate one size of 

 shoes only for the army. Let the 

 new beginner, and the old practition- 



