

Mr. Bach's five-year-old vine 



Grow Grapes Like These 



Mr. Herman E. Bach, of Bay City, Michigan, got a grape-vine from 

 us in 1905. Last fall he sent us the picture in the upper corner, and said 

 in his letter, "Please accept this photograph from one of your satisfied 

 customers." The vine is certainly loaded. Enough Grapes are in sight 

 to bring all of $4 at market rates. 



He hasn't put more than ^i worth of care or expense on this vine in 

 the whole five years. This dollar includes the first cost of the vine. And 

 yet he gave all the cultivation and trimming that was needed. If there 

 had been a thousand vines, they could have been attended to for $1,000. 



Now, this vine took up very little space, off in a corner of Mr. Bach's 

 yard, near the house. He could have had three or four of them just as well 

 as one. We are pretty safe in saying that there is not more than one home 

 in fifty, the country over, which hasn't the space for two or three Grape- 

 vines, and most farms have an acre or more on hillsides that had better 

 be growing Grapes, which it will do to perfection, than briars and wild 

 carrot and ground-hogs. 



How to Market Grapes 



Marketing Grapes is a new thing to many men. They may be sold in 



baskets direct to users anywhere, to wholesale fruit dealers in large cities, 



or to "Grape Juice" plants. Marketing Grapes in baskets and making 



unfermented "Grape Juice" has grown to be a big business up along Lake Erie, in Kentucky, in the Missouri Valley and 



in Pacific states. Whole counties are one big vineyard, and farmers are making more out of their fields than they ever did 



before with any other crop — vegetables, grain or stock. The little Lake Keuka Valley 

 in New York, shipped nearly six million baskets in 1909, and more vines are planted 

 every season. 



Whole districts in Germany grow nothing but Grapes. Some of their Grapes are 

 sold in their large cities, but much of their crop is sent over here to our markets, 

 which should be supplied by home-grown Grapes. George Ives, of Kentucky, said 

 that the most profitable crop he ever raised, "was ten acres of Grapes. The total 

 expense was $140, and the receipts were $3,170, not including 3,000 pounds of Con- 

 cords which we made into unfermented juice." Eight barrels of Grape juice is the 

 average from an acre, and this will bring $250 to $400. 



Grapes and Juice as a Food ~ 



With a small hand press, the "juice" can be made at home. This is not a wine at 

 all, and is not an alcoholic drink in the least. Grape juice which is left sour is a nasty, 

 bitter fluid, "not fit for the pigs," but when made right and kept sealed, it is as 

 wholesome and nourishing as the original fruit, or as apples or peaches. By its use the 

 essence of the fruit can be had in spring and summer months, when fruit is so high-priced. 

 Grapes and the unfermented juice, are health-giving to a strong extent. Many old 

 people and invalids find in both their easiest digested nourishment. One incident 

 where the family was converted to the use of Grapes was amusing. A sickly, puny 

 baby, a year or more old, was left by himself for a while. He had been fed "every- 

 thing," but not fruit, and still he did not thrive. The poor kid saw a basket of Grapes on the table above him and pulled it 

 down. When his mother came back, she found that he had got outside of 

 nearly a whole bunch. She sent for a doctor at once. The baby went to 

 sleep, and the only sign he had eaten the Grapes was a sort of satisfied 

 grin that would come over his face while he slept, — as though he thought, 

 "I got filled up with something good once, anyhow." 



If It^s True, Start Now 



If you are in doubt about kinds, put it up to us. Tell us what your 

 soil is and all about the place you are going to plant in. Our particular 

 kind of soil encourages an extra-large root-growth. Our one-year vines 

 are so full of vigor and so big that they are often taken for two-year vines 

 such as are grown in heavier, colder soils. We have so many that we 

 can send out all selected. No. i vines. 



Make 191 1 a different year if you haven't started some home fruit 

 before. Plant a dozen Grape-vines (or fifty if you can, for they cost only 

 ten or fifteen cents each), along with some apple, peach, pear and plum 

 trees. They will make your home a different place before long. 



$1.50 for 12 vines, prepaid— 4 black, i Campbell's Early, i Concord, i 

 King, I Moore's Early; 4 red, i Agawram, 2 Delaware, i Wyoming; 4 white, 

 2 Niagara, 2 Pocklington, total value $1.75. 



50 cts. for 6 vines — black, i Concord, i Moore's Early; red, i Delaware, 

 I Wyoming ; white, i Niagara, i Pocklington, total value 60 cts. 



$1.50 for 6, new kinds — black, 4 Campbell's Early, 2 King, total value 

 $2. These offers expire May 15, 1911. just a glimpse of some of our vines in the nursery field 



An arbor over a garden gate 



