178 Vineyard Culture. 



10 by 8 per acre, 693 pounds, costing $45 04 



8 by 8 per acre, 911 pounds, costing 59 21 



6 by 6 per acre, 1,151 pounds, costing 74 81 



The number of stakes, per acre, will be double the num- 

 ber of vines, and, at $33.00 per thousand, the expense, per 

 acre, will be : 



At 10 by 8, requires 1,088, costing $38 28 



At 8 by 8, requires 1,458, costing 50 13 



At 6 by 6, requires 2,420, costing 84 70 



On the common plan of using but one stake, the cost of 

 material will be diminished by one half. 



There are different methods of fastening the wires to the 

 posts. Some bore holes through which it is passed, but this 

 is not recommended ; others notch the supports with a wide- 

 set saw, and lay the wires in the cleft, fastening them with 

 small nails. Small staples are used by some, or a wrought- 

 nail is driven in below the wire, and then the nail is bent 

 upward and clinched. Mr. Morse, of Cleveland, drives cut- 

 nails into the posts, and, as he applies the wire, he takes a 

 turn on the nails at every post. 



Mr. T. S. Hubbard, of Fredonia, New York, has his trel- 

 lises fifteen rods long. His posts average three by three 

 inches, and are seven feet long ; they are set twenty-four feet 

 apart. The end-posts are heavier, four by six, and well 

 braced. He uses three wires, placing the first at from four- 

 teen to eighteen inches above the ground ; the second and 

 third, eighteen inches, so that the top of the trellis shall be 

 about four and a half feet high. He uses No. 1 1 wire, which 

 costs eleven cents a pound, and the expense, when the rows 

 are eight feet wide, is $50.00 per acre. 



Dr. Spaulding, of St. Louis, Missouri, uses three wires of 

 No. 9, and makes the trellis five feet high. 



My friend, M. H. Lewis, of Sandusky, Ohio, where the 

 wire trellises are used almost exclusively, has, very kindly, 



