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FRUIT NOTES FROM MISSOURI. 
W INTER VETCH.—I regret that the 
Hope Farm man is not able to give 
a report complimentary to Winter vetch. 
He attributes his ill-success partly to the 
substitution of Spring for Winter vetch. 
1 buy seed each year through local or 
St. Louis houses and have never been de¬ 
ceived in the character of the seed. It 
seems well proven that in some localities, 
at least, inoculation is essential for best 
success but on my soil vetch succeeds 
without it. Several years ago when in 
midst of a fine grape harvest. Our usual 
two applications of the Bordeaux mix¬ 
ture was withheld this year in the belief 
that the drought would suppress the black 
rot, and it did so. Rot developed on 
only three vines, a Duchess, Merrimac 
and Campbell. The first variety to color 
was the Eclipse, but it. ripened so little 
before Moore and Campbell that I am 
glad I did not plant largely of it. It is 
about the size of Ives in berry, only 
medium in bunch and hardly equal in 
quality to the Concord. It set a good 
crop and is evidently fairly productive. 
I should want it in a family collection, 
but not much of it for a local market, 
although I admit it could be put on the 
market three and maybe, in some seasons, 
ECLIPSE CAMPBELL MOORE 
EARLY GRAPES GROWN IN MISSOURI. 
central Michigan I found vetch with rye 
to be a universal cover crop in the ex¬ 
tensive peach orchards where the soil was 
very sandy. No inoculation was prac¬ 
ticed, yet I can well believe that on some 
soils it might be an essential. I hold 
vetch of the highest value, filling a gap 
that no other legume is able to fill here 
in the central valley where Crimson clo¬ 
ver does not succeed. It demands rye as 
a support and supplements it by storing 
nitrogen. Nothing equals it in number 
and size of root tubercles. I have found 
them half an inch long and a third in 
thickness. It makes a fine quality of hay 
as early as May 15 to 20, or as late as 
June 20, when it is ripening its seed, or 
provides au enormous mass of organic 
matter to turn under and feed a corn 
crop. I tried it this year between rows 
of grapes and blackberries and with suc¬ 
cess. 
.Toe Strawberry. — I note that the Joe 
strawberry has been put on trial at Hope 
Farm with the understanding that it re¬ 
quires a thin soil. As an old champion 
of that berry I enter an energetic protest 
against such a belief. The .Toe belongs to 
the general class of midseason to late 
varieties which all require soil of the 
very highest fertility to mature their 
heavy yields of large berries. For such 
kinds anything approaching a thin soil 
means a crop inferior in size and quality. 
For 10 years I have grown the Joe along¬ 
side all the best-known standards and find 
it has few equals in producing berries of 
the largest size combined with beauty and 
quality. But my experience is that the 
character of the fruit is in direct ratio 
with the amount of fertility. I have seen 
the Joe produce many ounce berries and 
one that weighed more than two ounces, 
and it is certainly more prolific and vig¬ 
orous than the Marshall. 
Early Grapes. —A drought since May 
first has persisted in the South Central 
States, prevailing through the Ohio Val¬ 
ley and on west to Oklahoma. Just now, 
this middle of August, we are receiving 
grateful showers. The fruit crop has 
been uniformly good. Just as serious dam¬ 
age from drought was imminent, a short 
rain would providentially fall and carry 
the plants along for a few more weeks. 
Never was the advantage of a soil stocked 
with humus and its surface kept stirred 
with a fine-toothed cultivator better dem¬ 
onstrated. At present we are in the 
five or six days before Moore’s, thus com¬ 
manding a high price. This year it was 
not over two days ahead, and there is 
little comparison in size of bunch and 
berry. With Campbell the difference is 
even more marked. Moore’s Early is 
the standard early grape on the St. Louis 
market. Its culture is extending as its 
profits become better known. It has in¬ 
deed many fine qualities. It is hardy, 
vigorous in vine and productive and rare¬ 
ly sets fruit in excess of its capacity to 
ripen perfectly. Its clusters are more 
compact and larger in berry than the Con¬ 
cord with a heavy bloom combining to 
make them very showy in the basket. Its 
chief weakness is a thin skin that will 
crack in wet weather, and, tome might 
add, a deficiency in productiveness. The 
last of the trio of early black grapes 
worthy of mention is Campbell’s Early, a 
variety I have previously proclaimed as 
the most valuable of all the kinds ever 
tested here, regardless of season. The 
present crop again confirms this opinion. 
It is larger both in bunch and be ry than 
Moore’s, better in quality, more produc¬ 
tive, never cracks and as a keeper, is un¬ 
excelled. It develops just one defect; 
many imperfect bunches apparently due 
to lack of pollination, but this is largely 
offset by size and beauty. 
L. R. JOHNSON. 
Cape Girardeau Co., Mo. 
It. N.-Y.—Regarding the Joe straw¬ 
berry we have the following letter from 
the introducers, .T. II. Black, Son & Co.: 
We were the originators of this va¬ 
riety of strawberries, and had fruited it 
on every source of conditions of soil. In 
all localities where it lias been grown for 
years, it has been found that the lighter 
soil gives a better colored berry, more 
even in shape ana less green tip. It is 
very susceptible to damp weather condi¬ 
tions when on heavy soil which do not 
occur of course on light soil. The lo¬ 
cality where this variety is grown to 
greatest perfection is in that section of 
New Jersey known as the pine land, or 
along the edge of these pine lands like 
around Perrineville, Manchester, Lake 
wood and that section of the country, 
which as you know is the lightest kind of 
sandy soil. \\ e have had much larger ber¬ 
ries from very very heavy soil, as Mr. 
Johnson says, but when it comes to fine 
quality, quantity of berry and beauty of 
berry there is no place like the sand for 
tins variety, and we think that you will 
Imd it so. The greatest crop that we ever 
saw was on ground where it was so light 
and so dry that it was too dry for any¬ 
thing in the vegetation line except melons, 
and this was the greatest and most beau¬ 
tiful crop of berries that we have ever 
seen of any variety anywhere. In pick¬ 
ing them the quarts set so close together 
that there was not any room between 
each quart for another one. There were 
two pickings almost as heavy as this, 
and three other light pickings, and it is 
from this very patch that its reputation 
as a light soil berry first started. To 
the oldest strawberry growers in this 
section it was a revelation, and you can 
hear them talking of it even after nine 
years have passed by. 
JOS. II. BLACK, SON & CO. 
Hasn’t been under shed for twenty years 
but this , forty year old StudebakeT is 
still working 
S OUND, air dried timber, tested iron, exceptionally good work¬ 
manship must have been built into a Studebaker Farm Wagon 
bought by Mr. A. D. Wilson, of Austin, Ind., away back in 
1873, for in a letter to Studebaker Mr. Wilson writes: 
“I have a Studebaker Farm Wagon purchased in the spring of 
1873 from L. E. Carpenter of Seymour, Ind. 
. “The first 20 years it had fair care taken of it; the remaining 
time my Studebaker has had rough use. It has stood out of doors 
in all sorts of weather, and it is a good wagon yet.” 
FORTY YEARS OF EVIDENCE 
—are behind Mr. Wilson'sstatement. Twenty 
years of good care and twenty years of neg¬ 
lect failed to impair the usefulness of this 
Studebaker wagon. 
And we have thousands of letters telling 
about the records of Studebaker Farm Wag¬ 
ons that are just as remarkable as this. 
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