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THE RURA-lr NEW-YORKER 
Apil 4. 
PROFIT IN GRAPES. 
Of all the fruits I find the grape one 
of the most satisfactory. It demands no 
heavy work, its culture is simple and its 
fruit is most agreeable to handle. Little 
extra labor is required for its harvest, 
there is a pleasing variety in color, size 
and flavor, a long season of ripening 
that permits ample time for marketing, 
and the fruit is not perishable as are 
most of the other small fruits. It is also 
profitable where there is a good local 
market, but in shipping I have had little 
experience. The local market can gen¬ 
erally be depended on to pay considerably 
higher prices than the city markets, even 
without deducting the expenses of pack¬ 
ing, transportation and commission. In 
this section three and even four cents 
per pound have long been the prevailing 
prices, while large shippers have often 
to be satisfied with one cent. 
In planting for the local market there 
should be a good collection of varieties, 
running from earliest to latest, while, 
for shipping, only a very few kinds are 
wanted. This collection should consist 
mostly of grapes of the best quality, suit¬ 
able for the table and dessert, and not 
only must they have quality but a great 
variety in flavor, color and size so as to 
Grape, Empire State. 
appeal to every taste and avoid the sa¬ 
tiety that a lack of variety might occa¬ 
sion. The demand for grapes as a regu¬ 
lar article of diet may be greatly ex¬ 
tended by such a judicious selection of 
varieties of the very best quality, and 
presented in packages convenient to han¬ 
dle as well as in small quantities. Usu¬ 
ally the buyer prefers a small quantity 
because it calls for little money, is easy 
to carry home and is eaten up before 
the grapes have a chance to lose flavor 
and stale the appetite. One of the best 
forms for presenting grapes to the gro¬ 
cery trade I have found to be the small 
open tomato basket without handles, such 
as tomatoes are shipped in, four to the 
crate. These baskets hold about Sy 2 
pounds of grapes, attractively heaped up, 
and are easily carried away by the cus¬ 
tomer or delivered by the grocer. They 
retail at 15 cents and the grower nets 
from three to 34/4 cents per pound. Some 
grocers prefer to buy in half-bushel bas¬ 
kets and retail out by the pound, but I 
have known grocers to be unable to dis¬ 
pose of them in bulk while they sold 
readily in the small baskets. 
I do not find the shipping basket of 
eight pounds to be suitable for this lo¬ 
cal trade. The quantity is too much for 
the average family, especially in the hot 
weather of August, when grapes are har¬ 
vested here, but there is a large trade in 
half bushel baskets holding 17 pounds 
heaped, for putting up by the housewife, 
and selling for 50 cents. This is a very 
satisfactory form of marketing which I 
keep in my own hands without the inter¬ 
vention of a middleman. Orders for this 
trade comes in over the telephone in re¬ 
sponse to advertisements in the local pa¬ 
per. Such advertising is indispensable, 
and is not expensive. Usually I keep 
a regular standing advertisement and in 
addition, two or three others among the 
locals which are always read. “To keep 
well, eat plenty of grapes this hot weath¬ 
er” ; “Try our delicious grapes, red, white 
and blue, for dessert and lunch,” are 
some of the forms we choose to go with 
local items. I find also that there is an 
increasing demand for grapes to be made 
into bottled grape juice, and this usually 
goes in the form of half-bushel baskets. 
Sometimes an order for 100 or 200 
pounds comes in, and on such a reduction 
is made. 
Next we come to varieties, and I will 
enumerate those I have found most sat¬ 
isfactory. The earliest good grape to 
ripen is the Eclipse, coming a few days 
ahead of Moore’s and Campbells. These 
latter are both very large showy black 
grapes of good quality, and are very pop¬ 
ular sellers at a price generally a full 
cent above the main crop. Campbell’s 
is the finer grape but is not a success 
with many growers according to reports. 
Here it is the best of all my collec¬ 
tion, and in the greatest demand as long 
as it lasts, as it is a splendid keeper it 
can be made to cover all the season up to 
the Concord. I note here that black 
grapes always outsell the whites and 
reds, while the reds rank next. Other 
early kinds that must have a place to 
give variety are the Green Mountain and 
Brighton. The Green Mountain is a 
great bearer of a very sweet white grape 
that always pleases the taste, while the 
Brighton is a high quality red of great 
beauty. Then comes the well-known 
Delaware and the Concord, the latter in 
great demand, but the former not profit¬ 
able here. Niagara and Moore’s Diamond 
are magnificent white grapes, exceedingly 
showy, but their color is against them 
and their quality is not high enough to 
overcome the prejudice. There are some 
whites, however, whose quality will sell 
them, and of such are the Empire State, 
Duchess and Wapanuka. 
Of reds there is a great list of fine 
grapes, among which some of the best are 
the Massasoit, Vergennes, Gaertner, Sa¬ 
lem and Jefferson. For a late reddish 
yellow grape of fine quality and great 
vigor we have the Goethe. There is a 
dearth of black grapes later than the 
Concord, but a fine one larger than Con¬ 
cord is the Wilder, that is later here, and 
should be included. I find among the 
varieties originated by the late T. V. 
Munson some kinds that fill this gap and 
enable me to sell fine table grapes right 
on up to frost. These are the Carman, 
Muench and Fern Munson. For grape 
juice I find the Concord a good seller, 
but a better wine grape that will grow 
anywhere and bear great crops is the 
Ives, but it is not high quality. The 
Muench and Fern are fine for grape 
juice and there are several Munson sorts 
particularly recommended for this pur¬ 
pose, such as the Wine King and Ben 
Ilur. With the above list any enterpris¬ 
ing grower ought to be able to build up 
a profitable local trade against such 
competition as is ordinarily found in 
such markets. It is quality that counts. 
L. R. Johnson. 
Cape Girardeau Co., Mo. 
Care of Neglected Orchard. 
We have an old Bartlett pear orchard 
(about 35 years old) that has been ne-j 
glected until new growth, such as suckers, i 
have thickly grown, some iy 2 inches in 
diameter. In pruning this we cut out 
all the dead wood and as little of the 
new growth as was possible (some has 
borne fruit). The old wood was thickly 
covered with scale, which was killing the 
trees. We are now thoroughly spraying 
with lime-sulphur, one to 11, saturated 
solution. Was this the proper procedure? 
Hightown, N. J. c. M. s. 
It would seem that the pruning was 
done properly, for all dead wood is not 
only worthless but a positive injury. As 
the trees have been neglected for a long 
time there would be little need of heading 
back the growth, but there would be 
some useless branches that should be 
taken out to let in the sunlight. The 
spraying with lime-sulphur is the best 
thing known for killing scale insects, 
and it is also good for killing the germs 
of some of the fungus diseases. The 
Summer spraying for Codling moth larva, 
scab, etc., would come next and must 
not be neglected. ii. E. van deman. 
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salary.” “O, George!” said the beautiful 
young girl, throwing her arms around 
his neck, “don’t let that worry you for 
a minute. I’m a militant suffragette, 
and have been on four hunger strikes.” 
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