1910. 
'I'MEi RURAL N EVV-YOKKEK 
1065 
Ruralisms 
NOTES ON GRAPES. 
Campbell’s Early. —The greatest sen¬ 
sation I ever experienced in grape grow¬ 
ing was when 200 vines of Campbell's 
Early bore their first crop at three 
years old. Some years before I had 
bought one vine on the strength of the 
commendations this new variety was 
getting from veteran horticulturists, 
and was so well pleased with it that I 
set five rows, 40 vines to the row. But 
the new vines with their first crop set 
a standard far above the old vine, and 
one for which I was quite unprepared. 
From the first their growth had been 
vigorous and rapid, although, with roots 
cut back to four or five inches, they 
had been set in nothing more than a 
cleft made with a single thrust of a 
spade alongside a stretched line. In 
1909, their third year, they came out 
strongly in the Spring and set a full 
crop. I noted that the young clusters 
averaged larger and were more uni¬ 
formly shouldered than any of the other 
numerous varieties. As the season pro¬ 
gressed, some thinning was done, but 
the vines were permitted to set as 
many as 20 or 30 clusters. As ripening 
time grew near, I was a little disap¬ 
pointed at the numerous bunches that 
were imperfectly filled out, and attribu¬ 
ted it to the lack of cross-pollenization, 
but as the berries turned black they 
showed up so large and beautiful that 
this imperfection was overlooked. There 
was very little rot. About a thousand 
of the finest clusters were sacked. As 
the local market was inadequate for the 
whole output of the vineyards, some 
of Campbell’s and some of Moore’s 
Early were shipped to St. Louis, where 
they netted me about three cents a 
pound. This was during the first week 
in August. Comparing the standard 
commercial early, Moore’s, with Camp¬ 
bell’s, it was found inferior in every 
particular, color, size, quality, produc¬ 
tiveness, tenderness of pulp, toughness 
of skin, • liability to crack and keeping. 
The sacked bunches were left undis¬ 
turbed until most of the mid-sea¬ 
son kinds had been harvested; then 
came the real sensation as we began to 
lift these select clusters out of the sacks. 
Such nobleness in color and size of 
berry, and especially of cluster, was a 
revelation whose novelty never grew 
old. Nothing I had ever seen among 
the other standard kinds had prepared 
me for such perfection. Some of these 
clusters I carried to town and exhibited 
on the streets. No one had ever seen 
such specimens, and everywhere there 
were exclamations of admiration. The 
largest bunches averaged about a pound 
in weight. In retailing the standard 
kinds from the wagon in small tomato 
baskets, holding three pounds, we found 
customers willing to pav 15 cents a 
basket for Campbell’s rather than 10 
cents for the others. Another surprise 
was the wonderful keeping quality of 
this grape. It continued to hang on the 
vines without impairment throughout 
the whole season. The sacked bunches, 
of course, were more beautiful, because 
of their exquisite bloom. Some of these 
were left hanging till far into Septem¬ 
ber, six weeks or more after ripening, 
and remained in good condition. The 
result of this first crop was to convince 
us that Campbell’s Early, especially if 
sacked, might be used in lieu of the 
whole catalogue of grapes, as it would 
cover the entire season and maintain 
its supremacy • over every other grape, 
from earliest to latest. It is true that 
other shades of flavor or of color might 
be preferred bv some palates. There is 
no gainsaying the refinement of quality 
of the Delaware, Brighton and others. 
There are grapes that are more piquant 
and grapes more luscious, but when it 
comes to the greatest combination of 
good qualities, when it comes to select¬ 
ing a big mouth-filling grape, one capa¬ 
ble of creditably representating the 
whole family, handsome enough for the 
masses and refined enough for the 
classes, one that would leave us without 
a deep sense of loss if every other kind 
were wiped out of existence, without 
hesitation my choice would be Camp¬ 
bell’s Early. The 200 vines averaged 10 
pounds of grapes, or a ton in all, that 
sold for never less than three cents per 
pound. They were pruned to four arms, 
six to eight buds to the arm, and were 
heavily fertilized with stable manure 
alone. 
Grape Season of 1910.—The season 
of 1910 in the valley States was a disas¬ 
trous one for all kinds of fruits, but 
particularly for grapes. Usually the 
grape is the last of the fruits to suc¬ 
cumb to frost and inclement weather, 
but this year marked one of those ex¬ 
ceptional times, which discomfited even 
this sturdy champion. The young 
shoots, with grapes the size of radish 
seed, were frozen black and dead, though 
the lower part of some extra strong 
shoots survived. Our only dependence 
was on the dormant buds, which can 
generally be relied on to avert a total 
failure. These came out, and on some 
varieties, such as Campbell’s, Ives, 
Concord, Green Mountain, Delaware, 
Wyoming, Elvira, Worden and Goethe, 
set about a fourth crop. Even in such 
a lean year, with grapes ripening three 
weeks late, the rot would not remit its 
toll, and found its invasion unresisted, 
as the poor prospect had induced us, un¬ 
wisely, to omit spraying; but then its 
coming had been invited by seven weeks 
of continuous rain, which gave the sea¬ 
son another exceptional mark. The re¬ 
sult was that the local market was bare 
of grapes, and not till late September 
did the familiar baskets of New York 
Concords make their appearance. Of 
course, the California grapes are here, 
looking very attractive in color and huge 
size of cluster, but their skins are too 
tough, their seeds too large and their 
pulp too dry to recommend them to my 
taste, as compared with the cheaper Con¬ 
cords. which sell at 40 cents a basket 
and 10 cents a pound, while for the 
Westerners is demanded 15 cents a 
pound. 
Brown’s Seedling. — This variety, 
which was sent out by The R. N.-Y. as 
a premium to subscribers, bore here this 
year. What qualities it exhibited I 
should class as good, while in season it 
ripened with Moore’s and Campbells. 
It is black in color and about the size 
and quality of Concord. Another year 
with normal season may discover some 
excellence not this time apparent. 
Eclipse. —This grape, originated by 
Riehl, of Illinois, is not in bearing here, 
but has so far received uniform favor¬ 
able mention from reliable quarters. In 
the 1904 report of the southern Illinois 
Sub-station it is described as “the ear¬ 
liest, largest and best flavored very early 
grape now grown. lunch and berry 
almost the size of Concord.” It was 
then known as Riehl’s No. 10. It is 
hardy, a good shipper and productive; 
in fact, possessing a rare list of good 
qualities. Yet it is significant that in 
this same Sub-station report Campbell’s 
Early is included in the list that trial 
has proven undesirable, and this, too, 
with that station only 25 miles from 
here, where directly opposite conclu¬ 
sions were formed. To my mind, this 
merely proves how supreme may be 
such details of treatment as pruning 
and fertilizing as a factor in determin¬ 
ing the possibilities of varieties. I have 
been unable to find an authoritative 
statement as to how much earlier, if 
any, the Eclipse is than the standard 
Moore’s. l. r. Johnson. 
Cape Girardeau Co., Mo. 
STOPPED SHORT 
Taking Tonics, and Built up on 
Right Food. 
The mistake is frequently made of try¬ 
ing to build up a w r orn-out nervous system 
on so-called tonics—drugs. 
New material from wbicb to rebuild 
wasted nerve cells is what should be sup¬ 
plied, and this can be obtained only from 
proper food. 
“Two years ago I found myself on the 
verge of a complete nervous collapse, 
due to overwork and study, and to ill¬ 
ness in the family,” writes a Wisconsin 
young mother. 
‘‘My friends became alarmed because 
I grew pale and thin and could not sleep 
nights. I took various tonics prescribed 
by physicians, but their effects wore off 
shortly after I stopped taking them. My 
food did not seem to nourish me and I 
gained no flesh nor blood. 
“Reading of Grape-Nuts, I determined 
to stop the tonics and see what a change 
of diet would do. I ate Grape-Nuts four 
times a day, with cream and drank milk 
also, went to bed early after eating a dish 
of Grape-Nuts. 
“In about two weeks I was sleeping 
soundly. In a short time gained 20 
pounds in weight and felt like a different 
woman. My little daughter whom I was 
obliged to keep out of school last spring 
on account of chronic catarrh has changed 
from a thin, pale, nervous child to a rosy, 
healthy girl and has gone back to school 
this fall. 
“Grape-Nuts and fresh air were the 
only agents used to accomplish the happy 
results.” 
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