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erate quantity of some kind of manure. Half a peck of 

 stable manure and cotton seed compost to each hole will 

 give good results. 



When many vines are to be planted, it can be done 

 very expeditiously by laying off furrows with a large 

 shovel-plow, followed by a subsoil, and applying some 



95.— The young vine as it _2. ^'Jg- 96.— Young vine trained to 

 appears in summer. two shoots. 



such fertilizer as Merryman's Dissolved Bones at the 

 rate of two or three hundred pounds per acre, to be 

 bedded on the same aslfor cotton. The vines are then 

 planted in the bed from six to ten feet apart, according 

 to variety, deep enough to keep the roots out of the way 

 of the plow. A top dressing of ashes, or a light coating 

 of stable manure before bedding, is excellent. When 

 the buds on the young vine begin to grow in the springy 



