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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
March 23, 
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TRIMMING AND CARING FOR GRAPES. 
I read an article with the above 
named caption that is open to criticism. 
The care of grapes is the same whether 
for the home or the vineyard, and the 
method of training depends largely up¬ 
on circumstances. In the West, Cali¬ 
fornia, and the far East, Italy, Spain, 
etc., no trellis is used, as wood is not 
procurable, but in Michigan and the 
other States the crop is supported by 
trellis. On our farm four canes are 
allowed to grow from the root stock, 
being guided till they reach to longi¬ 
tudinal wires by being tied with tarred 
twine. We use cedar posts eight feet 
long set in the ground about 2^ feet, 
with the butt end throughout coated with 
hot coal tar from the gas works. The end 
posts are braced so that the wires may 
be drawn taut It is a mistake to bore 
holes in the posts and run wires through 
them at four feet from the ground, or 
in fact . any distance, as it allows of 
the accumulation of moisture, and a 
B C 
POST Fig. 138. 
A, mould for making posts; B, front view of finished 
post; C, side view of finished post. 
wire at this height very naturally inter¬ 
feres with the cultivation of the vine¬ 
yard and the picking of the crop. Any 
obstruction that prevents getting readily 
from one row of vines to the next is 
an error. The cross arms, if made of 
lx4-inch board and secured with three 
nails, need not have the wire braced 
from the end of the arms to the post. 
To hold the longitudinal wires we 
saw a shallow notch in the upper edge 
of the cross-arms; this is sufficient, and 
being daubed with tar keeps out mois¬ 
ture. At best wood will rot and we 
have adopted the plan now of replacing 
the wooden posts with one made of 
concrete. A rectangular box is made 
tapering from six inches at the base to 
four inches at the top and eight feet 
long, open along one side. This box 
is made with only two sides tapering, 
the others arc straight. In the ends of 
the box we bore four holes, near the 
outer edge, for the admission of four 
strands of galvanized telephone wire; 
these are passed through the box from 
end to end and made taut. The box 
is then laid on its side, the open side 
up, and filled with concrete: One part 
best Portland cement, three parts sand 
and water to make quite wet. With 
a trowel the upper surface is smoothed 
off. At the upper or smaller end of 
the post are inserted in the wet con¬ 
crete two one-quarter-inch bolts, the 
head imbedded in the concrete, and the 
shank protruding an inch or more. The 
bolts are four inches apart and two 
inches from the top of the post. One is 
two inches and the other six inches 
from the top. To these bolts are 
screwed the cross-arms 24 inches long t 
when the post has set and hardened. 
The box or form, is so made that 
six or eight or more posts may be 
made at one time. This makes a post 
that will last for all time, and need 
no repairs. The end posts will of 
course need bracing in the same man¬ 
ner as the wooden ones. When the 
canes have reached the wires they are 
loosely tied to the wire and pruned 
back to the second bud of the new 
wood. We find it good practice to 
prune the vines just about the time of 
picking the fruit, or a little later, but 
in no case do we let it go till Spring, 
as the “bleeding” at that time weakens 
the vine and stunts both vine and fruit. 
Grapes do nice on a sandy or gravelly 
soil and the ground should be kept clean 
and well worked. To give the vines 
a uniform influence from the sun and 
air, plant the vineyard in rows running 
north and south and on high, well- 
drained ground. Herman haupt, jr. 
Fruits for Delaware. 
J. A. M., Millsboro, Del .—What are the 
best cherries, plums and pears for Southern 
Delaware, sandy high land close to water? 
What are the best peaches for the same 
land, commercially and for home use? 
Ans.—A ll the best cherries should 
thrive well in your section. Of the 
sour cherries the Montmorency will be 
the best for market. Then of the early 
ones the May Duke and Purple Guigne. 
Of the finer hearts and Bigarreaus the 
Black Tartarian, Luellen, Gov. Wood, 
Elton and Napoleon. Of plums, I would 
suggest of the American sorts Wild 
Goose, Wayland and Golden Beauty. Of 
the European varieties the following 
will be most likely to succeed: Shrop¬ 
shire, Damson, German Prune and 
Fellenberg. Of the Japanese varieties 
Abundance, Burbank, Red June, Sat- 
suma and Wickson. For a succession 
of peaches the Greensboro is the best 
early, has about taken the place of 
Amsden or Alexander. Mountain Rose 
is also good and medium early. Cham¬ 
pion is good and uncommonly hardy in 
the bloom. Oldmixon Free is one of 
the finest older peaches. Crawford’s 
Late, Elberta and Ray. The last is one 
of the very finest late peaches, large 
and showy and of better quality than 
Elberta. Of course the list might be 
longer, but these will give you a good 
series. For the very latest peach Chair’s 
Choice is very good. w. f. massey. 
Fruit Trees in Henyards. 
It may interest M. A. P., page 230, 
to know that some of the best fruit 
in this country is grown in poultry- 
yards. In a neighborhood where the 
trees are only slightly infested with 
San Jose scale, the first scale is likely 
to be found in the vicinity of the hog 
pen or poultry yard. This is explained 
by the fact that the English sparrows 
go for miles to feed with the chickens 
and hogs. Any time from June to 
November the sparrows that roost on 
infested trees may have the young 
crawling scale on their feet, and as they 
generally light on a tree before going 
to the ground to feed, the chances are 
in favor of that tree being infested. 
But this only applies to a neighborhood 
where there are only a few scale; 
where orchards are generally infested 
and where wild fruit trees and even 
forest trees keep up an abundant sup¬ 
ply of the young moving scale, the 
poultry yard cannot be much worse 
than other parts of the farm. One 
spraying with lime-sulphur in the 
Spring before the blossoms open will 
clean the trees for the time and I have 
never known the scale to increase 
enough in one season to injure either 
tree or fruit. 
When we consider that 100 gallons of 
lime-sulphur can be made right at 
home for 50 cents (not including labor) 
and that it is one of our best fungici¬ 
des, I can see no reason why anyone 
should let the San Jose scale stand in 
the way of his family having a good 
supply of fruit. It would not be ad¬ 
visable to plant pears where they would 
get any great amount of poultry ma¬ 
nure; it contains too much nitrogen 
and may cause spray blight. I believe 
that Mrs. Hen will give this appeal 
for a shady run her unqualified en¬ 
dorsement. A. T. B. 
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