Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-09-23
GRAPE GRga ING AND VINE MAKING MADE EASY.

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EDIToRs sSouTHERy GULTIYAT ToR-Ag Agreeabiy
stosyonr REQUEST Ill now hand you o few remarks
]. abont our method of planting out and taking
4 seafe of Vineyard. ri say, our method for
-claim ST aspeculiar to DR.. Mel Donnald and my
sseH land have: adopted mot through igno-
france of smore scompI Gated and more costly
but first on account of sitss implicitly
and chsopaes alid then, han ell succeeded.
why shoii wesalter: mr. course l do not pre-
tendSto sayitis; tbe; ;6est, nor wish deter
disposed to 10 thes Npensayo trench
land three feat ins dept there
5arevsrY many farmers Ssh oshaye not means
t5 sucf lSo Al out
& s&u aeEe 5Ft t8o 6gss are
tsned ontof only he ystefy aiia
ultisS heretoftre beencg cgnnects
ed with bus nass OF the
chsis toss come out .Sof their pockets
! ssbeforethsY receive any returns First, so many
hundred dollars for tfenehing and grubbins;
4 and nanurinss then so man more for vines; !;
then sosmanYsmore; to learn how; to stick the
cuttings into the ground aud then 80 many
sInorestol learnshow prune then to learn how
80 make sthew wine, how to keep at, etc and to
crown Il. ALL $50 many thousands for a cellar.
And, if il SO happens, he is able and willing to
stand all ID hundred to- one, he is
halfsont of his senses, and gives up in despair
s5of ever being able to uuraYel the mysery, and
rnasterthe awal science of Wine making, espc.
eiail he happens to hear Of granite labora-
Tories ibeing, built for the express purpose OF
s4imp mparting instruction for Q remunarationl
s. @paEpARArioN oFsgHEsL LAND. 2s.s
prefer new land ,SA9su 5as would bring from
four to ak bushels of corn to the acre; select if
possible, a;spieee on easterlY, southeasterly cx-
Sposure, and on q hill side, If yon have such if
you have not level land viii do, provided it be
hot ts6 refentiTe eof moisture. Sunday soil is
the hest, Though dry clay hill sides will answer
very well. Clear the land saad brealSit upwith
pl5ws, as for corn but Ill trees must, of course,
Sbs snt down aud removed. Now gctsa parcel'of
sn1tslF from three to sfonT and
psoeeed to mark out the rows il the land:be
level the rows be straight; but if on hill
sisle; lay them OF Horizontally, or level without
regard to- straig ghtness thissis in Greer to pre-
vent the washing away of-tae soil, (see.one of
tlis late numbers of the CilIirator for simple
layslIng instrnlnent.1 n make my rows eight or
niue seet apart / prefer that distance on &C
Cont of driving carts between to haul stakes,
COZ tnannfe, when it becomes necessary, or ia
vintage time. Having staked off the rows to
your actlon, procesdst Ito open the trenches
sor bitches 5let them be about twofeet wide, and
4 from fourteen inches deep large plows followed
by long shoyels, viii very quickly do, the work
in sandy Soil. fhunextt thing is to plant; this
can be: done, in our Southern climate from the
iniddis gof November to the end of March. 4
prefer rooted plants Others give the preference
to cuttings; the hrst vail save you one year,
ssaud .thenaa ;isia. great
sobjeet SMaSe yourself .; wood com pnssissgitR
sand out the distance for yonI Siaes ihltse
bottom Of tie trench drop siaesin their:
places, and proceed to plant them. Two meit
with shorthandled hoes, viii plant q great many
an D day lone dcepens the hole to- let the roots.
go some inches deeper than the bottom of the
ditch the other: places the vine upright.andi
holds it until the first has put earth around it.
s yoI have other hands let them, follow: with
hoes md the trench so that the top eye of
the vine will be about; on a level with the sur
4 face. Pnt q short stake to each vine, to mark
sitssplace. There is nothing more to do until
y the spring grass Will call your plows and hoes
Toto use; then work them as you would corn or
eottonsss Yons may plant two. rows OF corn or
peas between the. rows and they will not inter
tsre with the: vines int least ..,.
So. lsT PRUNING. ~
the winter, at any time between the LIST, Of.
sDeeembsr ffeI 5th. Of March; take a sharp,
remove every branch except one, and:cut,
that abevesth second Of third eye Of the
Z last groMt break tho land viii q halfshoyeI
sflowa Sfcrs corr passing the nearest farrow
1:aboit from s.he vines. Give them
5a3stakc about four feet they viii the
aspring, napy suckers, and put out eyes
Sahere they hove ness 4 cut ont the suck