SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
cane h at the same time is trained up from the spur. In the spring of the sixth year, cane a is cut out to the line 
drawn across it, and a new cane trained up from its spur, while cane h is bearing fruit. Thus, no cane is ever allow- 
ed to bear ^wice; new wood is supplied every year for bearing the next, which always gives the finest fruit. Sec- 
tion 1 in fig. 11 shows one mode of trimming the canes, and section 2 another. Section 1 is more applicable to a 
higher trellis— say six or seven foet— while section 2 is only adapted to about five feet, from its being more heavily 
cropped. The trellis represented is six feet high from the ground, with bearing canes four and a half feet in length. 
Fig 12 shows another mode ©f training, the principle of which is the same as the preceding, with the advantage 
of the vine being more slowly and regularly increased, and without the necessity of such a great bulk of the vine 
having to be cut away every year. In the former methoJ, all the largest canes have to be cut away every year ; whi'e 
in this we cut away only the small wood, and the great bulk of the vine remains. This mode of training is 
readily seen from the cut. In the summer of the third year from planting, two horizontal canes are trained to the 
bottom wire, and one straight up the middle. la the. spring of the fourth season, the upright cane is pruned down to 
two feet above the horizontal canes. Wjien the vines have begun to grow, and it is sure the three up- 
per buds are safe and secured to the wires, two horizontal and one upright, the other buds lower down the centre 
cane are rubbed out. The two lower canes are pruned back to five feet in length, the width of the trellis. During 
this season, while the second tier of horizontal canes are growing, the lower are throwing up shoots (marked <z, 
^). These shoots will all show fruit; and those marked a are allowed to bear, while those marked ^ must have 
their fruit all cut off. In the winter of the fifth season, these shoots a, b, are pruned down to the lowest good bud, 
(indicated by the line drawn across them.) The two upper and horizontal canes are pruned in to five feet, or the 
width of the trellis, as the lower ones were last season. This (the fifth) season, the shoot from spur b is allowed to 
bear, while that from spur « is allowed to rest. Thus, each alternate spur is made to bear and rest each alternate 
year. If this vine be carried up three tiers high, it will then be about seven feet high from the ground to the top, 
which is high enough for any man to stand on the ground and work at. 
The French, near Fontainbleau, have a cheap way of making very good and durable trellises, for the raising of 
table grapes upon. They set posts of locust about three or four inches in diameter, two feet in the ground and six 
out, about eight or ten feet apart. They then tie across the posts strips of white oak or ash, about one inch thick and 
ten or twelve feet long. These strips are split out in the same way that we split our hoops for flour barrels. 
They are tied to the post with annealed iron wire, which is bound round and twisted tight, 
1^** For prices of wire, &c., see Answers to Correspondents. 
COTTON PliANTER’S CONVENTION. 
At /he regular session in June last, of the Cotton Plan^ 
ters’ Convention of the State of Georgia, a resolution 
passed, authorizing the presiding officer, (after consulta- 
tion with the Vice Presidents) to call the Convention to- 
gether, should business require it; deeming it important 
that the Convention should assemble, ard having the 
concurrence of those whom I was to consult, I hereby re- 
quire the Members of the Convention to meet in the city 
of Macon, on Wednesday, the 16th day of November, 
inst , as business of the most U!:’gerit necessity requires the 
action of the Convention. Each member of the Conven- 
tion is earnestly requested to be present. 
It is very desirable that each Cotton-growing County 
in the State should be represented ; therefore, each coun- 
ty is requested to send delegates to the Convention. 
individual planters (not county delegates) may attend 
and become members of the Convention. 
Newspapers friendly to Direct Trade, and to the Con- 
vention and it.- objects, are very respectfully requested to 
publish this notice. Howell Cobb, 
President. 
KILLING AND SAVING BACON. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I am a young farmer, 
just commencing life, and I wish to know, among 
other things, how to save meat. I have thought several 
times, during the present year, that I would ask the de- 
sired information ot you or some of the experienced, prac- 
tical readers of your journal. I have thoroughly over- 
hauled my hams three times since spring and found the 
skippers in abundance, and, although I removed them en- 
tirely, as far as eye could ^ee, by scalding, scraping, &c., 
each time they seem to gather strength by defeat. My 
hams I scalded (after smoking), and covered them in 
sacks. My shoulders were ashed in the old-fashioned 
way and ranged on shelves. The latter suffered most. 
Now, will you or some correspondent, through your 
journal or otherwise, begin at the beginning, (that is, at 
the slaughter pen) and continue to the “palate,” and tell 
me how to kill, cure and save my bacon 1 I will be 
much obliged for a plan that will do. 
Yours, &c , “A Lover of Ham.” 
Pond Town^ Ga.j August, 1859. 
[We ask of our experienced Bacon-savers, a 
article for our December number. — Eds.] 
