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1913. 
i' Irl PC IN U KA K NEW-VORKER 
Ruralisms 
FRUIT NOTES FROM MISSOURI. 
This year I had an opportunity to ob¬ 
serve the new grape Eclipse, originated 
by E. H. Riehl, of Illinois, and to test its 
claims as the best extra early. It was 
indeed ahead of anything else in the 
vineyard to an extent of four or five 
days. It was edible very soon after col¬ 
oring, and there is no question that it 
could go on the market several days in 
advance of Moore’s Early, and thus com¬ 
mand high prices. Its quality is good, as 
good as or better than Concord; most 
people say better, but an uncloyed ap¬ 
petite for grapes may have an influence. 
In berry it is a grade smaller than Con¬ 
cord but its disappointment for me lay 
in its small clusters and moderate pro¬ 
ductiveness. It did not look like a heavy 
yielder, judging from one four-year-old 
and several three-year-old vines. Rut Geo. 
\Y. Endicott, who lives some 25 miles to 
the southeast in Illinois, writes me that 
it bore a fine crop for him, and sold at 
50 cents per eight-pound basket in Cairo. 
He says that its bunches will get larger 
as the vine gets older, and that he con¬ 
siders it a good grape for a local market. 
Nevertheless I feel too dubious in respect 
to its market value to set of it largely 
until further trial, but there can be no 
is as large in berry as Moores, has a 
richer color, better quality, a much 
tougher skin, never cracks, is one of the 
best of keepers, holding up for a month 
to six weeks after ripening, and is very 
productive. It holds the first place, un¬ 
rivalled, in our local market, as long as 
it lasts. Yet the majority of reports of 
this grape are unfavorable, and I do not 
recommend it commercially until well 
tested. Endicott says it demands a lime¬ 
stone soil and I know it must have high 
culture and short pruning. After Camp¬ 
bell the fruit stores demand more black 
grapes, as they are the best sellers, but 
I have had nothing to give them except 
Concord, and it falls too much below the 
Campbell standard to sustain the demand 
and the price, although it did so this 
year as the result of advancing prices in 
everything. I have had a vine of Wilder 
fruiting for several years but its bunches 
were too irregular and its ripening too 
uneven to attract regard, though its ber¬ 
ries were large. This year I seem to 
have found the kind wanted in the Merri- 
mac, another Rogers hybrid, and resemb¬ 
ling the Wilder in some respects. The 
Merrimac is fully as large as. if not 
larger, than Campbell, and is a beautiful 
grape. While none of its bunches were 
very large, they averaged well and were 
shapely. The vine was productive and of 
very strong growth. I am thinking of 
Concord. 
question of its value as a grape for the 
home collection. Any variety of good 
quality that gives us ripe fruit a few days 
earlier than usual is an important ac¬ 
quisition to the vineyard. It did not 
prove to be a long keeper when sacked. 
The next grape to ripen was the 
Champion, and if this variety was only 
of good quality instead of being one of 
the poorest on the list, it would be a 
great moneymaker, for the vine is vigor¬ 
ous and productive, but no customer ever 
buys it the second time for eating off 
the bunch. Next came Moore’s Early, 
a grape that it would be difficult to praise 
too highly. I think it equal to the Con¬ 
cord in flavor and it is much larger. Its 
bunches are always perfectly filled out 
and their size and bloom and general 
beauty make it very attractive to cus¬ 
tomers. One of its good characteristics 
is its refusal to overbear, although al¬ 
ways setting a fair crop, and to this no 
doubt it owes in some degree the per¬ 
fection of its bunches and their always 
even ripening. The vine is hardy and 
vigorous and all in all it is hard to ex¬ 
cel. It is a good shipper, but the berries 
will crack under favorable conditions, and 
it is not a long keeper in the sack (paper 
bag). It is planted by the acre in South¬ 
west Missouri. 
Always before ripening with Moore’s, 
but this year a week behind it, comes 
Campbell’s Early, the king of all grapes 
that have ever grown here. Its one de¬ 
fect is its imperfect pollination, from 
which result a large proportion of im¬ 
perfect bunches. I should be glad to 
bear if anyone has been able to overcome 
this weakness. There are numerous other 
sorts in close proximity. Despite this 
fault Campbell’s is the most profitable 
grape in the vineyard. Many of its 
clusters are the largest and handsomest 
in the collection of some 40 varieties. It 
Eclipse. Fig. 525. 
setting a hundred-yard row of this var¬ 
iety as a supplement to Campbell. 
Cape Girardeau Co., Mo. 
L. R. JOHNSON. 
Waterproofing Cotton Cloth. 
Can you tell me how to treat a seed¬ 
bed cover made of cheesecloth or tobacco- 
canvas to make it last longer? I made 
three large tine ones and painted them 
with linseed oil. but they seem to fall to 
pieces as soon as. if not sooner than, with¬ 
out the oil. I understand that the poul- 
tryinen claim linseed oil \jill not make 
cotton cloth last longer. The first one 
burned up after I folded it up to protect 
from the rain before the oil was dry. It 
was on a clothesline. Lucky I did not 
take it into the house. It burned during 
the night. e. V. u. 
Weaverville, N. C. 
Never fold up a pile of oily cotton, for 
that is a pretty certain way to have a 
spontaneous combustion. I have the fol¬ 
lowing method of making cotton cloth 
waterproof. Take three pints of raw lin¬ 
seed oil; one ounce of acetate of lead; 
four ounces of rosin. Rub the acetate up 
with a little of the oil, and then add the 
remainder of the oil and the rosin. Heat 
till completely melted and mixed in an 
iron pot over a slow fire. Stretch the 
cloth tight and apply the oil with a flat 
brush. It will dry in 24 hours. It can 
be made more completely waterproof by 
turning the cloth over and applying a 
coat to the other side. The mixture 
should be applied hot. w. F. massey. 
Indian Wheat. —I note inquiry about 
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N.-Y. This wheat is very much the 
same as buckwheat, but with us makes 
a taller ranker growth, with a smaller, 
greenish blossom ; it is grown in this lo¬ 
cality quite generally, though in a small 
way. Most farmers have a small patch 
to furnish material for the “buckwheat 
cakes and maple syrup.” The flour is 
much the same as regular buckwheat. 
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