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profit is very small. We formerly had five or six times the number of vines we 

 now have, having marketed as high as 38,000 pounds in a single season; but 

 owing to droughts, late frosts and prevailing prices of the past few years, we 

 have grubbed out most of our vineyard. 



FRANK JURGENS, Scott, Scott county : I have eighty grape- vines growing on 

 very fertile, dark soil which is level. The varieties are Champion, Concord, Ca- 

 tawba, and Niagara. My Niagaras froze down. Would recommend Champion 

 and Concord. I plant one-year-old vines, six by eight feet; cultivate with a hoe 

 and spade. Prune in February ; I prune some in summer, when the shade gets 

 too dense. My trellis is posts set in the ground with crosspieces. Gather the 

 fruit by hand in ten-pound baskets, and sell at Scott. I consider them a good, 

 paying crop. Have put up unfermented grape juice; boil, drain juice out, heat, 

 bottle, seal. 



A. C. HILL, Liberal, Seward county: I have 100 grape-vines growing on 

 sandy soil. An eastern slope is preferable. Set one year-old vines, six feet apart. 

 Prune in February; also during summer. I till with a plow and hoe, but a disk 

 harrow is the best implement for this work. I mulch my vines. Have tried 

 Concord, Martha, and Lady Washington. Have discarded Lady Washington, as 

 it is too small. I would recommend Concord for this locality, as it is the most 

 satisfactory variety. They would pay well here if irrigated ; and I would advise 

 extensive planting if they could be treated this way. Have never sacked the fruit. 



WILLIAM EAPP, Liberal, Seward county: I have 250 grape-vines growing on 

 a southern slope. Set one-year-old vines, 6x8 feet apart ; prune closely, in March, 

 also during summer. Use a wire trellis. Cultivate with a double-shovel or a 

 small stirring-plow; I mulch my vines. Have tried Concord, Martha, and Ca- 

 tawba ; I would recommend the two former ones, as they do best here. Grapes 

 do as well here as any other fruit; they bear well, but the grasshoppers bother 

 them. Have never sacked the fruit. 



G. W. COLLINGS, Wichita, Sedgwick county: I have grown grapes for home 

 use for twenty-five years, but my experience with a commercial vineyard began 

 only three years ago. Since that time I have had control of an old vineyard 

 of three acres, and at the same time began to put out a new one. The new vine- 

 yard now has in it 2500 vines ; some have been set each of the three years. The 

 old vineyard is mostly Concord; there are a few other varieties in it, among 

 which are some Salem. These make an excellent growth of wood, and when the 

 fruit comes to maturity, and is well ripened, it is one of the best of grapes; large 

 and showy, in both bunch and berry, and of exquisite flavor; but with me these 

 vines have ripened very little sourid fruit. The fruit has been affected every 

 year by anthracnose, and two crops were almost entirely destroyed ; whether or 

 not this disease could be controlled by spraying, I do not know. 



Only a part of the new vineyard has borne fruit; last year there were a few 

 bunches on the following varieties: Moore's Early, Concord, Brighton, Niagara, 

 Pocklington, Goethe, Delaware, Catawba, and Worden, all of which promise to 

 do well when the vines are older. In addition to the above, I have out the fol- 

 lowing varieties : Campbell's Early, Cynthiana, Green Mountain, Moore's Dia- 

 mond, Salem, and Cottage, and I have lately added a McPike and an Ozark. 

 All of the above have made a fairly good growth excepting Campbell's Early. 

 Two vines of this variety that have been out three years, and had the best of 

 care, have not grown a cane two feet long. The land on which this vineyard is 

 growing is black loam, some parts having a little sand in it, but the most of it is 

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