SMALL FRUITS IO3 



small pole when it has reached the first wire, pinch 

 the top out and start two lower arms and then 

 carry the center shoot up to the top wire. 



" It is no trouble to get top arms, but lower arms 

 must be provided first or there will be trouble to get 

 them ; nothing but new wood bears fruit. When 

 the vine has reached the top wire, pinch out the 



GRAPE TRELLIS AND VINES 



top shoot, so it will make two canes, then take one 

 down each side. In trimming the third year, I get 

 four arms from the main cane, with about ten buds 

 on each arm, and tie each to the vine, using two- 

 ply jute twine. 



" The implements used in cultivation after the 

 vines have come into bearing are the one-horse 

 plow; the gang plow, consisting of three small 

 plows attached to one frame or beam ; the weeder, 

 the cutaway harrow, and the horse hoe ; one-horse 

 cultivator and hand hoe. Clean cultivation is 

 necessary. For my locality, the varieties I have 

 chosen for commercial purposes after several years' 

 trial with 25 varieties are only four — Moore's Early, 

 Niagara, Concord, and Delaware." 



GRAPE JUICE 



" Every season I make a large amount of grape 

 juice," writes Mrs. Mary Johnson of Tippecanoe 

 county, Indiana. " In the fall when grapes are 

 abundant, they can easily be purchased in the 



