1912. 
TH Hi RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1076 
Ruralisms 
GRAPES IN MISSOURI. 
The grape season is just closing, and 
I must note it as one of the most satis¬ 
factory on record. There was a good 
crop, a good weather season and a 
strong demand at good prices. My vine¬ 
yard, though not a very large one 
(about an acre) is the only one set for 
commercial purposes that I know of in 
this county. There are, however, quite 
a lot of surplus grapes sold from long- 
arbors and trellises in various back 
yards, that effect the demand at the 
grocery stores when the Concord sea¬ 
son comes in. Until then I have virtu¬ 
ally a monopoly of the market of my 
home town of 8,000 people with Moore’s 
and Campbell’s Early, the two best early 
market grapes on the list. Of these 
two, as well as of all others without 
exceptions in my numerous collection, 
Campbell’s Early is incomparably the 
superior. This year this grape has again 
vindicated its claims too unmistakably 
to be questioned. If I were confined to 
one grape it would be Campbell’s; if all 
varieties were annihilated but Camp¬ 
bell’s they would pass away with little 
regret and little notice from any mar¬ 
ket well supplied with fine Campbell, 
for the latter could be made to fill the 
recommend Moore's unless Campbell has 
been tested successfully. It is as good 
as Concord in flavor, and holds an 
established place on the city market. 
The Delaware does well here, but in 
this rural market its true worth is not 
known, and therefore its diminutive size 
condemns it in the eyes of the buyers. 
While this grape is a good bearer and 
deserves its place as the standard of 
quality, I should not want to under¬ 
take its growing extensively for market 
unless at a handsome premium over 
other sorts. It demands a rich soil 
and good culture and should form a 
part of every collection. 
The finest and largest (both in bunch 
and berry) black grape next to Camp¬ 
bell is the Worden, but I am not pre¬ 
possessed by it. Its habit of uneven 
ripening is most persistent and irritat¬ 
ing, although I have tried the only 
known corrective—short pruning. I 
have had to go over its vines picking 
out an all-ripe bunch here and there 
and then waiting a day or so for others 
to turn black. Another defect is its 
thin skin. It must be handled with care 
and when berries crack they often, 
when pulled off, leave part of their skin 
and pulp behind, which makes an un¬ 
sightly mess of the bunch. These things 
weigh heavily against the Worden, but 
in return may be placed the fact of its 
being one of the heaviest bearers, 
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Underwear 
I WANT MY SCALE ON EVERY FARM. 
I will send to the farmer who knows the profit in buying 1 , I 
feeding by weight, one of my steel frame Pitless Farm Scales 
have just patented.at the Introductory Price and Entirely on 
This 5 ton scale has new compound beam and beam box, free, 
the first man to offer a reliable high grade scale at a fair price I 
every American farmer is under " *" 
to me, because my fight against 
the trust put the price of a first 
class scale within his reach.Only 
the First Man who writes gets 
the Introductory Price. Will 
you bo the man? If SO, my wriI ton warrant to you is 
that U you will put up my scale as directed, and If not as represented 
I will take It away and pny you for platform or foundation not usable in some other make of scale. 
“JONES He Pays The Freight,” 9 D St., Binghamton, N.Y. 
selling and 
which I 
A p p roval. 
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believe that 
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CAMPBELL’S EARLY TO LEFT; DELAWARE TO RIGHT. 
whole season by sacking and its quali¬ 
ties make it the best seller of any grape 
I have ever offered the market. This 
praise is not exaggerated. It is based 
on facts. As long as I have Campbell 
to sell the grocers and Italian fruit 
venders want nothing else, not even a 
Green Mountain or Delaware; 275 vines 
bore more than 2,000 pounds, which all 
sold at four cents. 
Campbell has splendid quality, is of 
the largest size, the handsomest in ap¬ 
pearance, much the largest in clusters, 
many weighing a pound, the best 
keeper, the toughest skinned, among the 
heaviest bearers, as early as the earliest, 
the best seller of all. Campbell can be 
handled roughly by raw pickers with¬ 
out perceptible injury. When birds 
puncture the berries the wounds will 
dry up without the juice souring, as it 
immediately does in most others. I 
really feel ashamed to say so much in 
praise of one grape, but I could find 
plenty of witnesses here to corroborate 
me. If it has one serious defect I am 
not aware of it. 
The next best early market grape is 
Moore’s Early; a good, reliable grape, 
and adaptable to most climates and soils, 
which Campbell is said not to be. It is 
a vigorous grower, not an extra heavy 
bearer, clusters never very large, but 
compensating in a fine uniformity, a 
berry a third larger than that of the 
Concord, as large as Campbell but lack¬ 
ing its lustre and its tough skin, where¬ 
by it cracks easily. I should always 
hardy, healthy, showy in bunch and 
berrjq and its unevenly ripe bunches 
may here be sold for canning purposes. 
I have not found anything of its 
particular season worthy to super¬ 
sede the old reliable Concord in pop¬ 
ular favor. Everybody who knows the 
name of one grape knows the Concord, 
and it stands for the standard of all¬ 
round grape qualities. Every house¬ 
wife signifies contentment when you an¬ 
swer her inquiry for grapes by promis¬ 
ing to send the Concord. The Concord 
is accustomed to endure the ignorance 
and neglect of the unskilled master and 
yet return good fruits for little more 
than the privilege of living, but if you 
want to see real fine specimens of this 
grape, if you want to see what it is 
really capable of and to revise your for¬ 
mer estimate of it, fertilize it gener¬ 
ously, give it good cultivation and don’t 
allow it to overbear by leaving too much 
wood. Then you will find most of the 
clusters approaching half a pound in 
Weight. L. R. JOHNSON. 
Southeast Missouri. 
A committee had the State Senator 
on the carpet. “Didn’t you promise, if 
we elected you, to get our county good 
roads?” “Why, certainly, gentlemen.” 
“Did you do it?” “No. You see, air¬ 
ships are getting very common now. I 
thought we’d better wait a few years. 
Maybe we won’t need any roads at all 
then. Fine weather for corn, isn’t it?” 
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