486 AMERICAN GRAPE TRAINING, CONCLUDED 



"No middle wire is used, and a slat is tacked 

 across the V in place of the slack wire. A fork 

 is formed below the wire in Y- shape. From this 

 fork a cane is trained to the right on one wire, 

 and to the left on the other wire. A shoot on 

 each cane, taken from a point near the wire, is 

 trained in the opposite direction from, but on the 

 same wire with, the cane, with which to renew the 

 next season, when the bearing wood will be pruned 

 to a spur, which in its turn will form a renewal 

 shoot, and so on, alternately, the bearing canes 

 extending always in opposite directions and on 

 different wires, and alternating each year. The 

 position of the vine the next season will simply 

 be shifted or reversed. 



"Sometimes instead of six feet, the trellis is 

 made only four feet high. This height appears 

 to have done just as well as the other at the 

 Georgia Station. Here, the V supports have been 

 made of one -by -three slats. When the sharpened 

 ends are dipped in coal tar, or even white lead, 

 driven in the ground so that they will cross each 

 other just above the surface and tacked with two 

 tenpenny nails, a firm, durable and sightly sup- 

 port is the result."* 



MISCELLANEOUS SYSTEMS 



HORIZONTAL TRAINING. There are very few 

 types of horizontal -shoot training now in use. 



*Hugh N. Starnes, Bull. "28, Ga. Exp. Sta. 'J70. 



