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467 
(Horticultural Notes 
Large commercial fruitgrow¬ 
ers no longer confine them¬ 
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as an insecticide and a clean¬ 
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more easily handled, more eco¬ 
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in all spraying operations. It 
is a barium-sulphur compound 
with both ingredients active. A 
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dissolves quickly. No leakage 
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Free Spraying Service 
We advise, direct and co-operate with 
fruit growers in all spraying matters. 
Write us plainly about your spraying 
problems. Our Service Department 
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timely spraying information. Address 
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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 W. 30th St. New York City 
within a 
might to 
mnde and 
Starting a Grape Nursery 
I have had 20 years’ experience in 
farming. There are some nice vineyards 
around here, but I have had very little 
actual experience with grapes. I intend 
to plant about. 30 acres of grapes, and 
would like to raise my own plants. What 
is the best time to make my cuttings, and 
how to make them? What kind of soil 
in which to plant and how to take care 
of them? Can most of the work be done 
with horse-drawn cultivator? How can I 
take plants from soil; also liest time to 
take up plants: whether in the Fall and 
store in cool cellar or in Spring as fast 
as planted? Can I plant m.v cuttings next 
Spring and set some of the plants out 
in the field next Fall? Is it safe to plant 
in the Fall or is it better to wait until 
Spring? How deep should they be plant¬ 
ed and how far apart each way? Should 
they be fertilized when planted? If so. 
which is best, manure, bone or complete 
fertilizer? How deep should they be cov¬ 
ered? Would like some Concord and 
some Worden. Which can stand a slight¬ 
ly moist soil, or is there no difference? 
Could you suggest any reliable, practical 
book to cover the whole subject that you 
would consider a safe guide to follow? 
Erie Co., N. Y. w K. 
Opinions differ widely as to the best 
rime to take wood for grape cuttings, 
some preferring the Fall, others midwin¬ 
ter. The writer prefers late Fall or early 
inter, before the very low temperatures 
occur. In general practice they are made 
from the fall of the leaf until early 
Spring. Only the best matured cane's 
should be used for cutting (purposes. 
I hese should be taken from tile vines as 
fast as the vines are pruned, and they 
should be made into cuttings 
few days. Not over a week 
elapse before the cuttings are 
heeled in in the storage pit. 
The canes are severed close from the 
older wood ; then starting from this cut 
end a cut is' made just below the nearest 
bud : some prefer to cut through the hud. 
If it is decided that the cuttings shall be 
10 inches long the next cut is made 10 
inches above, but so made that an inch or 
more of cane projects above the upper 
hud. Then a cut is made just below the 
next hud of the cane, and so on until all 
the wood of the size of a lead pencil is 
used. Oftentimes the upper part of the 
cane may be immature, in which case it 
should not he used. Again, if the cane he 
broken that part of it should be discarded. 
The cuttings are usually tied in bundles 
of a hundred each, with all the butt ends 
together, and so placed that these ends 
will all be at about the same level. 
A pit should be dug in a loose, well- 
drained soil, preferably in a location with 
a southern exposure. This should he dug 
deep enough so that when the bundles of 
cuttings are placed on end in an inverted 
position they can be covered with four or 
five inches of soil when the pit is filled. 
As fast as the cuttings are bundled they 
should be placed on end and in one en'd 
of the pit with the butt ends up and cov¬ 
ered. After all have been placed, a layer 
of straw is put on over the soil. They 
are stored in this location until the time 
of planting. When the temperature be¬ 
gins to warm the air in the Spring the 
layer of straw is removed, and gradually 
the soil is removed so that only two inches 
of it remains over the ends. In this lati¬ 
tude cuttings are usually put out in the 
field beginning about May 15. 
A well-drained gravelly or sandy loam 
is preferred for growing grape roots, and 
it can scarcely be too rich in organic 
matter. Large quantities of well-rotted 
stable manure are indispensable in grow¬ 
ing the .roots. 'Hie cuttings are planted 
in deep furrows that are opened with a 
two-horse plow, or with a special tool 
employed by nurserymen for this purpose. 
These furrows are spaced about 22 in., 
and the cuttings are placed about 2 in. 
apart in the rows. They are set so that 
the upper hud will project just above the 
soil level when the furrow is filled. The 
tillage required is performed through the 
use of the single-horse cultivator, and 
much hand labor must lie done with the 
hoe. 
Grape roots are usually dug in the Fall, 
some preferring simply to plow them out, 
while others use a special tree-digging 
tool for the purpose. If one could foretell 
just what or how severe the Winter tem¬ 
peratures might he. the roots could be 
lcft_ in the ground until the following 
Spring, or until the time of planting. 
Assuming that the roots are dug in the 
Fall they may he stored in a cool cellar 
that is kept just above the freezing point 
and which is not allowed to become too 
dry. 
If is far better to set out the vineyard 
in the Spring rather than in the Fall: ex¬ 
cept in unusual situations and soils. The 
vines are planted so that they stand at 
about the same deptli as they stood in the 
nursery row. or they are set so that the 
area from which the shoots have grown is 
about at the ground level. Guttings 
planted in the Spring will yield some 
vines that can he set the following Spring. 
Others of them will not have made roots 
good enough to plant in the vineyard, but 
which must bo again planted in the nur¬ 
sery row. 
In ordinary soils planting of the vines 
is usually with the rows 8 ft. apart and 
with the vines 8 ft. apart in the rows. 
It is a good plan to manure the field 
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