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year. Possibly, the rank-growing Concord, on a rich soil, will not 

 bear this close cutting. What say the experienced growers of the 

 Club? 



PLANTING GRAPE CUTTmGS. 



Mr. D. Newbro, Lansing, Mich,, writes: " Three years ago last 

 spring, I planted about one hundred Concord grape cuttings. I dug 

 a irench about sixteen inches deep and six feet wide; covered the 

 bottom with straw, corn stalks and coarse stable manure, to the 

 depth of two or three inches, then tramped down; then filled the 

 trench with the soil that had been taken out. In this the cuttings 

 were planted, in rows nine inches apart, and about five inches in 

 the rows. Then covered the ffround between the rows with boards 

 eight inches wide, leaving an inch space between the boards occu- 

 pied by the cuttings. The object of the straw and corn stalks was 

 for drainage more than manure, and the boards to prevent evapo- 

 ration from the surface. The result was that nearly every cutting 

 grew, and made canes from two to six feet, and roots in very great 

 abundance, one to four feet long. Every spring since, I have 

 planted with equally good success." 



CLOVER IN NORTH CAROLINA. 



Mr. Edward W. Poro, Southfield, N. C— Will the Club assist us 

 by giving the most approved method of putting in clover, suited 

 to the latitude of New York city, including quantity of seed and 

 time of sowing ? In addition, we would be obliged for any sug- 

 gestions as to changes proper for the latitude of Raleigh. What 

 do you mean by soiling cattle ? We pull fodder in August, and it 

 is terrible work for Christians, and poor pay. You Northern people 

 cut down the maize stalks. Do the blades, exposed as long as you 

 leave them in the fields, make good forage, and is the corn not 

 damaged for bread or pudding ? Our pine forests will, one of these 

 days, give out, and barrels of turpentine cease to roll down to New- 

 bern and Wilmington. But our children will then furnish the world 

 with as man}-^ barrels of Scuppernong juice as we now produce of 

 spirits of turpentine. Come down and plant vineyards with us. 



Mr. N. C. Meeker. — Clover should be sown in North Carolina at 

 the time of sowing oats, and should be brushed in after the oats. 

 The land should be good, though it will grow on fair corn land. 

 A little manure will be certain to give it a start. Six quarts to the 

 acre will be fair seeding for that climate. It can be sown without 

 any other crop. A good way is to sow on fall wheat in Februaiy; 



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