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Trouble  with  Grapevines 
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Crops  with  Nitrate 
of  Soda  alone,  no  matter 
what  other  fertilizers  you 
may  have  used.  100 
pounds  to  the  acre  for 
seeded,  and  200  pounds 
to  the  acre  for  cultivated 
crops  will  do  the  work. 
The  increase  will  yield 
large  profits  over  the  cost. 
grapes  began  t.>  turn  the  leaves 
turned  yellow  and  dropped  off,  and  the 
grapes  would  shrink  and  drop  off.  When 
it  was  time  to  harvest  them  there  was 
not  half  a  crop  left.  Will  spraying  help 
I  hem  any?  If  so  what  should  he  use  and 
when  or  does  the  trouble  lie  in  the  roots} 
Outside  of  the  arbor  he  has  raspberries, 
which  he  cultivates;  inside  there  is  a 
light  sod.  A.  M. 
Heading.  Pa. 
The  trouble  with  these  vines  may  be 
due  to  one  or  more  of  several  causes.  A 
severe  infestation  of  downy  mildew  often¬ 
times  causes  the  foliage  to  drop  prema¬ 
turely,  this  retards  the  ripening  of  the 
fruit,  and  often  entirely  checks  it.  Fre¬ 
quent  spraying  with  Bordeaux  mixture, 
made  by  using  four  pounds  of  copper 
sulphate,  four  pounds  of  lime,  in  50  gal¬ 
lons  of  water,  will  control  this  disease  if 
thoroughly  applied  at  right  time.  Quito 
often  a  withering  and  dropping  of  the 
foliage  results  from  excessive  soil  mois¬ 
ture.  This  condition  is  aggravated  of 
course  during  very  rainy  seasons.  The 
other  extreme,  or  a  lack  of  soil  water,  re¬ 
sults  in  very  similar  conditions  of  the 
vine.  Soils  that  are  naturally  well  drained 
do  not  as  a  rule  develop  vines  with  this 
defect.  If  the  soil  presents  either  of 
these  extremes,  tile  drainage  on  the  one 
Hand,  and  frequent  cultivation  with  the 
turning  under  of  green  crops  on  the  other 
hand  will  in  a  great  measure  tend  to  re¬ 
lieve  t lie  difficulty.  Over-pruning  or  the 
retention  of  too  much  bearing  wood, 
causes  the  dropping  of  foliage  and  inter¬ 
feres  with  the  normal  ripening  of  the 
fruit.  In  this  event  the  remedy  is  ob- 
vious.  p  p  o 
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Gun  I  change  the  situation  of  some 
old  grapevines  successfully?  They  tiro  a 
Very  excellent  quality,  consequently 
should  like  to  save  them,  What  time  in 
the  Spring  would  be  desirable  to  do  this? 
J  he  Plains,  A  a.  G.  u, 
It  is  not  advisable  to  attempt  the 
transplanting  of  large  grapevines,  al¬ 
though  it  is  occasionally  done  satisfac¬ 
torily.  Layering,  however,  is  one  of  the 
simplest  and  commonest  methods  of  pro¬ 
pagation,  as  the  mother  plant  nurses  the 
layers  until  they  can  sustain  themselves. 
It  is  well  know  ii  that  grape  varieties  be¬ 
longing  to  certain  species  do  not  root 
readily  from  cuttings,  and  with  these 
layering  offers  the  solution.  With  these 
old  vines  the  layers  can  he  obtained  with¬ 
out  in  the  least  interfering  with  the 
normal  functions  of  the  vines.  In  the 
Spring  select  two  or  three  canes  of  the 
past  season's  growth  that  arise  from  near 
Hie  base  of  the  vine,  and  bury  these  to 
a  depth  of  four  or  five  inches  in  trench¬ 
es  that  run  to  the  right  and  left  of  the 
trunk  and  under  the  wire.  The  extreme 
ends  of  the  canes  may  be  left  uncovered. 
Some  prefer  to  coyer  a  few  joints  and 
allow  other  portions  of  the  canes  to  come 
t<>  the  surface  at  intervals  ahmg  their 
length.  When  this  method  is  used  it  is 
advisable  to  hold  the  joints  under  the 
ground  by  driving  pegs  crosswise  over 
the  canes  at  those  points.  The  canes 
are  of  course  left  attached  to  the  parent 
stem  until  the  layers  are  ready  for  dig-  | 
giag.  This  will  usually  he  the  follow-  ! 
ing  Spring.  Under  favorable  conditions 
it  is  possible  to  obtain  desirable  plants 
from  practically  all  joints  except  those 
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severed  from  the  canes  and  are  then  ' 
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the  old  vines  transplanted,  even  though 
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In  our  paper  last  week  we  had  as  a  head¬ 
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word  we  ought  to  have  used  is  a  French 
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