Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-04-08
Published March 9, 1865. ]
CHAPTER "a.

PRUNING GRAPE VINEs.-In planting, if in
autumn, set the roots, first clipped in, for a
yearliDg vine, to Is or Is inches long, about
four inches deep, leaving the cane a foot or
two long, which should be cut away in the
spring level with the earth Grow but one
cane the first year, which-of strong-grow-
ing sorts-will reach ten feet in length. Cut
this cane down to four eyes in November,
and allow the lower ones to grow next spriIg g,
and train them upright These two canes are
to be cut back in November to about five
feet, and next spring are to be bent down in
opposite directions and each shortened to
four feet and tied to stakes or wires or Stats
of trellis, to grow fruit-bearing canes.
Plants being set just eight feet apart, the
ends of arms from each will meet and fill all
the space If the vines are the short iOinted
varieties, every other bud may grow, and
every one upon long joints, thus giving five
or six uprights to each arm. The third year
from planting, each upright may ripen two
punches, say twenty four lunches to vine.
Next March cut back each upright to two
buds and grow two canes. Afterward cut the
upper one of these two, and so on of others,
entirely away, and cut back the lower to two
buds, which are to grow two new canes. This
keeps the bearing wood down to low head,
the arms being trained to any hight desired.
punches year, upon tTellis only four feet
high, which allows rows to be set six feet
apart, or nearer upon very valuable land.
Some prefer arms three feet long and two
tier trellis. After the fruit is set stop the
growth of the canes, at the third leaf above
the upper cluster fruit
The cheapest and best way to make a trel-
lis is by mailing light Stats to light posts, with
light upright wires between the Stats at each
cane. These wires should be galvanized
With tender sorts which it is desirable to lay
down in winter, the best process would be to
incline single arm at an angle of 40 degrees,
and spur prune as in the double arm system.
They can then be readily cut down and COW
cred in winter.
AN ACRE AND HALF-The Western Rural
has a notice of the produce of one and half
acres of land last year. 1t was owned by
EDWARD WHEELER of Kalamazoo, Michigan:
The soil consists largely of muck, well de-
composed, mixed with white and yellow sand.
BY deep and thorough cultivation, the liberal
application of bone and yard manure, ard
leached and unleached ashes, and by regular
irrigation, he has obtained returns from this
small amount of land greater than are fire.
quently obtained from an ordinary farm. The
articles sold and sums obtained during 1854,
were as follows:
" Cabbages s51.47; beets, sss.42; sweet
corn, 500 "a; peppers, S5.48; tomatoes,
sl22.1S; China beans, 1896; pie plant,
Sl79s; parsnips, 1924; vegetable eggs,
S2S; summer squashes, S22 ~; winter squash
es, SIS; cucumbers, S92.42; nutmeg melons,
S42.SO; onions, Ss7.72; onion sets, 81; cur
rants, S31 Al; peas, Sl25; strawberries,
sl66 So; raspberries, 81. %; carrots, SSs.O6 !;
asparagus, SPA Is; tomato plants, S2l.S7; ;
caulifowers, SO 80; gOoseberries, (nearly all
den seeds of various kinds. $40; tobacco,
800; making a total OF 81 431.16."
Such practical demonstrations of the profit
of sma farms and thorough cultivation are
most valuable lessons to many of our farmers
who CLEAN scanty subsistence by skinning
| over scores of acres.