1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
761 
NOTES ON BAGGING GRAPES. 
We put the bags on as soon as possible 
after blossoming, when the fruit has set. 
We give at least one spraying with Bor¬ 
deaux before bagging, sometimes two, the 
first soon after growth has commenced; 
the second, after the blossoms have fallen 
and the fruit has formed, following this 
second spraying with the bagging of all 
promising clusters. I do not know how 
many bags a man can put on in a day. 
Women and girls with more nimble fin¬ 
gers can do the work faster and better; 
1,000 may be considered a good day’s 
work. If the bag is drawn up over the 
branch or cane and folded over, then se¬ 
curely fastened with a pin, scarcely any 
will need replacing. The cost is slight 
compared with the benefits, but this will 
apply only where the vines are closely 
pruned, well fertilized and choice fruit 
for a nearby market is grown. We use 
a square two-pound bag, costing 50 to 60 
cents per 1,000, and pay $1 per 1,000 for 
putting them on. Our grapes are put up 
in four-pound baskets, sometimes lining 
them with pinked shelf paper to make 
them more attractive and delivered to a 
local grocer who has a good trade 
in fancy fruit. No covers are used, 
the clusters being snugly and taste¬ 
fully packed and somewhat rounded up 
above the top edge of basket, and deliv¬ 
ered to the store in our own wagon. 
Packed in this way the basket weighs 4J4 
pounds. Each cluster is carefully exam¬ 
ined before placing in the basket, and 
every imperfect berry removed. The bags 
protect the fruit from injury by insects 
and birds and also retain the delicate 
bloom on the cluster that adds much to 
its beauty. J. c. williams. 
New Jerse y. 
THE MULCH METHOD OF FRUIT 
GROWING. 
You are all wrong on this mulching. I 
have learned that the more culture we give 
the trees the better they are. You can 
never get to heaven if you keep on talking 
mulch. J. IT. HALE. 
I wish most heartily to commend your 
article on page 034 on “mulch method” of 
growing trees. I am not prepared to say 
that I could recommend this method for 
newly-set trees, hut for trees that become 
well established I believe there is great 
merit in it. I am carrying on a series of 
experiments and investigations with refer¬ 
ence to clean culture and some ktnd of 
mulching, so that the soil does not bake 
in the hot sunshine. I am fully convinced 
that where soil is so exposed to the hot 
sun that angleworms will not live and pros¬ 
per the vigor of the soil is greatly im¬ 
paired. You are right in this matter. 
Washington. f. wai.den. 
I have a vineyard set to Scuppernong vines 
near Pinehurst and Aberdeen, N. C. The 
soil is deep sand, and these grapes are at 
home there. I am favorably impressed with 
your plan of the mulch system, and after 
this year and next year planting to cow 
peas which will be let die on ground and 
plowed under in Spring, I intend to let 
grow to grass and keep mowed. But what 
gets me is how will I fertilize these vines? 
Should I broadcast on top of the grass 
mulch? Won't the grass get all the benefit 
of the fertilizer? B. 
R. N.-Y.—In such cases we would use only 
the soluble chemicals such as nitrate of 
soda, muriate of potash and acid phosphate. 
These will feed both grass and trees, while 
hone or tankage would not dissolve so read¬ 
ily. Of course you will cut the grass fre¬ 
quently and let it rot on the ground. 
Pumping Water with Compressed Air. 
W. O. E., (No Address ).—I have just been 
reading F. II. King's answer, page 663. to 
E. M. I cannot say that I understand it 
fully. But how would this plan do? A 
closed iron tank of such capacity as would 
meet the requirements of the case is to be 
placed on the bottom of the well. Into it 
two pipes are inserted, one of which passes 
just through the top, while the other goes 
through the top and down nearly to the 
bottom of the tank. Then a valve opening 
inwards is set into the top of the tank. 
When there is no pressure on, water enters 
through the valve and tills the tank. When 
air is then forced into the tank, entering 
at the top through the pipe that merely 
passes through, the valve closes and the 
pressure of the air forces the water upward, 
that is, in the tank, through the pipe that 
nearly reaches the bottom. When all the 
water in the tank is expelled, and the air 
pressure Is shut off, the valve again opens 
and tvatet* again fills the tank, and so on 
ad libitum. 
Ans.— There is no doubt but that the 
above plan of your correspondent would 
work where it could be installed, but the 
small reservoir capacity which can usually 
be provided in deep wells and the inter- 
mittant character of the delivery of water 
by such a system would, I think, prohibit 
its use in deep wells. For shallow wells, 
the cases would be rare where the system 
would be any improvement over the ordi¬ 
nary pump. Each time the reservoir was 
emptied it would be necessary to allow 
the air to exhaust, and unless there was 
a cut-off valve in the discharge pipe near 
the level of the reservoir the water would 
run down and the pipe would have to be 
refilled each time the reservoir was re¬ 
charged. Such a valve, however, could 
be provided easily. The fact that the 
air must be allowed to exhaust each time 
the small reservoir is refilled with water, 
and the fact that the compression of the 
air will make it necessary to give more 
strokes to the pump in order to pump a 
given amount of water, would make the 
pumping slower and less economical than 
the ordinary pump. f. h. king. 
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