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yet just as fresji as when cnt from the vine, by simply laying them 

 down in a box. First lay a paper, then a layer of grapes, selecting 

 the best buches and removing all imperfect grapes, then another 

 paper, then more grapes, and so on until the box is full ; then cover 

 all with several folds of paper or cloth. Nail on the lid and set in a 

 cool room where it will not freeze. I nse small boxes, so as not to 

 disturb more than I want to use in a week or so. Give each bunch 

 plenty of room so they will not crowd, and don't use newspapers. 

 Some seal the stems with soalingwax and wrap each bunch by itself, 

 but I get along without that trouble. I presume other varieties will 

 keep as well, but I have not tried them as yet, but will another year. 

 The grapes should be looked to several times during the winter. 

 Should any mould or decay, they should be removed and the good 

 ones again repacked. By this means I have had, with my pitcher 

 of cider and basket of apples, my plate of grapes daily, besides dis- 

 tributing some among my friends and the sick of the neighborhood. 



Salt foe Sheep. 

 Mr. D. M. Fisher, Arch Springs, forwarded the subjoined item of 

 experience: I had as fine a flock of Grade Southdown sheep as^ I 

 ever gaw\ I took a notion to.not salt them, thinking salt of no use. 

 x\bout six months after they began to decline very fast ; the finest of 

 them died, and th(?y all looked poor and ragged. After this thing 

 had gone far enougli to convince me that they would all die, I com- 

 menced to salt them again, and have not lost a sheep since. 



Watermelons. 

 Mr. E. Haines, Mount Holly, jST. J. — I will give the mode of 

 growing watermelons in lower Jersey, where they are produced 

 largely and with little labor. First, clover sod on an inclined plane 

 preferred. Second. With a small plow mark nine feet across 

 the plane. Third. With a large plow make deep dead furrows the 

 otlier way, same distance apart. Fourth. Put plenty of long 

 manure in the furrows, but not under the liills ; tramp well. Fifth. 

 Throw the furrows back. Sixth. Tramp the ridge at cross furrows;, 

 make fine; drop a handful of rich fertilizer; then about a dozen 

 seeds ; cover about one incli. Seventli. Wlien stand secured, pull 

 all but two. Eighth. Plow tlie land only as tlie vines require 

 room ; let grass grow ; keep the ridges clean ; at every hoeing 

 tramp round the hills. Xiiith. When the fruit begins to set, turn 



