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five was a most hearty and very intelligent young 

 German, who laughed at all warnings, and would insist 

 that grapes were surely healthy at all times of the day, 

 and in any amount. 



MANURES. 



Whatever experiments may have been made with 

 special manures for vineyards, the best is, and will 

 continue to be, the compost manure, if got up right. 

 It may be composed of various kinds of material, easily 

 attainable. 



Common stable manure, street sweepings, turnpike 

 dirt, sweepings and slops of houses and chambers, saw- 

 dust, shavings, pomace, leavings from tan yards, taUor, 

 shoe and turning shops, distilleries, ground out of 

 woods, marl, leaves from the vines, and weeds of all 

 kinds, woollen rags, especially; all these, and many 

 other things, which will readily suggest themselves, 

 should be procured, as opportunity offers, in as great 

 a variety as possible, and mixed together in the follow- 

 ing manner : A hole is dug, at least four feet deep 

 and six feet wide, as near the vineyard as possible, and 

 into it are these materials thrown promiscuously, and 

 as they are thrown in, covered and mixed half and half 



