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$25,000, and to add to their business the manufacture of glucose of 

 grape sugar. Our readers will find some hints as to the profitableness 

 of this branch of the business on page 5 of the January number of 

 this year. 



Why should not other establishments of this kind be started in 

 other parts of Ontario ? It will require a large number of them to 

 supply this Province with the sugar that is consumed by its inhabitants 

 every veai'. 



PEOTECTIKG GEAPES. 



A papef addressed to the Kentucky Horticultural /Society by Col. Bennett IIi 

 Young, of Louisville, Ky. 



The question of protecting grapes from the ravages of insects and birds, 

 and injury from beat and rain, has excited great interest for the past few 

 years. Having experimented fully with two of the most prominent plans, 

 I trust that I will not be considered out of place for laying before your 

 honorable society the results attained. 1 learned from Mr. Thomas S. 

 Kennedy the idea of using mosquito-net bags, and, in most instances, I 

 have found them an excellent preventive against curculio. There are two 

 difficulties with these where black grapes are concerned. First — Tlie dust 

 or dirt settling on the netting, Avhich adheres close to the grape, destroys 

 the bloom on the berry, and consequently affects the beauty of the fruit. 

 Second — Birds can pick the grapes through the netting, and an injury to 

 two or three grapes on the bunch, where the juice runs along the netting, 

 mars the whole bunch. This last objection does not apply to the use of the 

 netting with light colored grapes. The introduction of white grapes has 

 pf Oven a great blow to grape-loving birds, for I have never yet observed one 

 that was good enough for their eating. My plan in using the netting has been 

 to tear off a piece, say twelve inches wide, double it over and sew it on the 

 open side with a sewing machine, and then run a seam across one end. My 

 little girl last j'ear made 1,600 of these bags, and did not complain of the 

 amount of the work. Thus made they will last three years or more when 

 put away. My boys, nine and eleven years of age, put them on the bunches 

 and gather them at the top, and tie a cotton string around the ends at the 

 top of the bunch. The boys could bag 300 bunches in a morning without 

 feeling over-vv-oi-ked. Oftentimes I found it i*eal fascinating work myself, 

 and first-rate recreation for a June morning. The bags were put on when 

 the grapes were aV)Out one third grown. The second method is that of 

 iiiclosing in paper bags. When Mr. Bateman of Ohio, first suggested this 

 novel plan, I considered it an absurdity. I could not imagine how a bunch 

 of grapes, shut off from sunlight and air, could properly mature with a 

 good color and flavor. I I'esolved to give it a fair trial. One fact is worth 

 a great deal more than many theories; and starting out with prejudice 

 against Mr. Bateman's plan, after a first trial I must confess myself a 



