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currants, before peaches and grapes. In a letter 
Purdy & Johnston, e.xtcnsive small fruit growers iiMite, > . 
three feet in the rows, and eight feet apart, with one 
between, have averaged 100 bushels per “^re, and sel quick for gooc j^j^ = 
prices.” Mr. Purdy tells us that he gets from 20 cents to ~o cents p q 
GRAPES. , . , 
IVe will not repeat what we have already said as to the health " 
fruit. Many a person, we have no doubt, has by it been biou„ y 
verge of the grave to life and l^calth, when nothmg else would 
ease; and many others with incurable diseases, by it have 
dered comparatively comfortable, a life which ^ 
or have been only one of constant misery. But we 
PKOKiT of grape culture : and it is pleasant to ^now that sniee hn in^ 
tion of the early and new varieties-Delaware, Humeian Iona, 
Jlartha, Diana and Walter, we have a sure basis for iiniforin crop., „ 
profits. Do not, we repeat, plant any kinds for prokit which f “ ^ ^ 
•your locality before frost. You may purchase Catawba and 
CHEAP, but the loss of one year’s vintage by their late iipcnin^, J 
more than the difference. nver-esti- 
Mr. R. P. Kendig,of IVaterloo, N. Y., a gentleman who 
mates, writes us in a letter of August 9th, 18G9, “ takfned^r^ 
one acre of Delaware and Diana vines six ycai-s old, but ^ 
the layering of alternate vines for the previous three years-three 
an acL lonas, three years old, allowed to bear fruit on two canes ; one acre 
W.r«,. A. U ™.«M. .1 «>« .1.™ old -™ ^ 
to bear at all. The net cash product of the two and «“ec-qua 
Sevex Hundred and Tiiirty-tiiree Dole.crs and Fie > 
The fruit was sold in New York and Boston. In proportion to the number 
vines, the product of the loiia was the most valuable.” laver- 
If Mr. Kendig had not exhausted his vines by three ^ 
ing, no doubt his fruit crop would have been double or over |.^0 per ac^. 
But this apparent loss ho probably made good in 1 10 sa 
at the Ohio Grape Growers’ 
,W,r.l“S'ye„, "ov.'r.Jo.on.ot W, 
cnilimr for *400 besides cost of transportation,— 1800 per acie. 
S i£ allowed, will sometimes produce as above, four tons o 
tlm acre Vr die health of the vines and uniformity of yearly crops, it is r^ot 
T’sufl’er to grow more than half this amount, or two tons per ac e 
Basin- our estimate upon this safe average, and calling the market value of the 
ernrh^ids as low as 15 cents per pound, (Mr. Kendig, Keeeh and others 
2 „t 25 tLts for some,) we have $000 per acre for the fruit. I he ) c. ily . 
penseof caring for a fruiting vineyard, including 500 
renort to the Bake Shore Growers Association foi 18,»8 9, at $ . 
to 000 vines can be planted upon an acre, 8 and 10 
kind are comparatively strong or moderate 
i.^i^=r^™iES. Don’p 
DO IT ” 
