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York or Massachusetts; cannot too strongly recommend drainage as a pre¬ 
ventive of drought, and to equalize the temperature of the soil. Have north¬ 
east and south exposure, but don’t see much difference in that respect. Soil 
sandy loam. Best grape is Diana. 
From Mr. S. S. Stickney, Milwaukee Co.—Naming the William Favorite 
(Sops of Wine), Keswick Codlin, Fameuse, Fall Orange, Tallman Sweet and 
Flushing Spitzenburg, as successful there ; suggesting the Barberry for hedg¬ 
ing, north of the Osage limit, and the propriety of planting largely of Sugar 
Maple, Ash and the nut bearing trees for timber on the prairies. 
GRAPES, SOIL, ETC. APPLES, PLUMS, CRABS, AND THE SMALL FRUITS. 
Grapes. —Mr. Lawrence thinks we have been misled by eastern men into too 
much manure and digging. If we manure at all it should be by top dressing. 
His neighbor prepared by simply ridging with the plow, planting on the ridge, 
and was getting fine crops, while others who dug deep and manured, lost their 
vines—lost largely by late growth. Would plant upon the surface. 
Mr. Adams said his vines did well on common prairie soil—high ground, 
northern aspect, simply plowed—seem to mature well, and winter well, gen¬ 
erally. Thinks nature has done enough for our soils on the prairie. His 
neighbor thought to do better by trenching and manuring, but lost all his 
vines last winter. 
Mr. Plumb thinks he can ripen the grape here as well as in northern Ohio, 
where they have trouble to ripen the Catawba, and in wet seasons like the 
past, to ripen any grape well. They find it absolutely necessary to under¬ 
drain these clay lands, while we have any amount of lands fitted by nature 
with a porous subsoil. Was informed by a prominent grape grower of San¬ 
dusky, that in his visit to the vineyards, and at the meetings of the “ Grape 
Growers’Association,” the finest grapes he saw were grown on the lake 
ridges—the drift formation of calcareous gravel and sand. Our summer 
temperature is the same as their’s, and winter only about two degrees less, 
with less damp, foggy weather, and our warm autumns are very favorable to 
the ripening of the fruit, provided we can escape the late and early frosts. 
Mr. Adams would grow the Delaware on a cool aspect, as it is very sensitive 
to too much heat. Great complaint in Southern Ohio of too much heat. His 
own grounds are nearly level, sloping to the northwest. Delaware grows 
rapidly, and side by side with Concord, bears more pounds of fruit to the 
vine. Thinks the cool aspect will prevent sun scald. 
Mr. Willey suggested “ bad drainage ” as the cause, which was concurred 
in by several. 
President Hobbins would perfer either southeast or southwest exposure ; 
clay soil, and the nearer to nature, so far as manure is concerned, the best. 
Would prefer cutting-made plants always. 
Mr. Kellogg said his vineyard was deeply plowed ; sobsoil sand and gravel; 
all suffered alike except Concord. Would plant Concord first, and next, and 
next, then Delaware, if he wanted more. Don’t see how the northern aspect 
