The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-04-03
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Ashland, April 3, 1867
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MORE ABOUT GRAPES,

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Mr.. EDITOR My experience in the
cultivation Of the Grape is not extensive,
but it is enough to convince me that no
more profitable crop can be raised. My
Concord vines last season, in their fourth
year, bore from 80 to 40 punches each,
averaging say Is pounds to the vine
This is at the rate Of $4,000 pounds to
the acre. If had had an acre in bear.
ing could easily have realized 10 cents
per pound at wholesale. In fact they
would readily have brought from Is to
20 cents at retail. Mr.. KNOX, Of Pitts.
burgh, sold bis Concords at 25 to 35 cents
per pound and disposed of many tons at
those prices. His Delawares brought so
cents pound. Ionas sold at 81 90 per
pound in the New York markets. This
was OF course an extravagant price, but
the Iona is an extra grape and moro diff.
cult to raise than some other varieties
AT the meeting Of the Cincinnati Horti.
cultural Society Sept. %, 1866, SKAATs
stated that he had sold his entire crop of
Ives seeding at wholesale for S27 100 per
100 pounds. Besides this he sold to a
grape.grower $500 worth of propaga.
ting wood. q t''. " le
But may not this thing be carried too
farY Suppose every body should plant a
vineyard, what would you do with all the
grapes! Suppose every body should SOW
q field Of wheat, who would eat all the
four2 Suppose every body should set
cut an orchard, who would eat all the ap-
pies? Suppose every body should rear a
herd of COWS, who would cat all the but.
ter and cheese? Suppose every body
should raise flock Of sheep, who would
consume all the mutton and buy all the
wool? Suppose every body should set
all the old hens and geese and turkeys in
the country,t to Matching, who would eat
all the pulies and goslings and gobblers
next fall9 That mysterious parsonage,
"every body" will do nothing of the kind.
Nor will every body plant vineyard
To raise grapes, Mr.. Editor, requires not
only some cash, but great deal Of cour.
age and much good sense. IF every avail
able acre in Ashland county were put in
grapes, there would be market for the
whole; probably better market than
there has been yet. If there were hut
FIVE sheep raised where there are hun,
dred now, would sheep.growers be better
off than they are now? Would they get
more for theirSwoolI Does town OF
city break down because it has too many
merchants and tradesmeu and artisans p
M. B. PARMEIY, No. |, Town Hall, Ash
land, keeps very fine store, has very
dne assortmentof goods, sells very cheap
and is very much handsomer man thar
JOHN SMITH, but with all these advan
tages if No. l, Town Hall were the only
depository Of dry goods in your town, il
would likely Le but sorry affair. Twen
ty.two years ago | bought a farm il
Holmes county. There was an orchard
on the place Of rather Indifferent fruit
and debated long time with mysel
whether should plant good sized fiel,
in apple trees or not To plant OF not t
plant, that was the question. THETA ar
gument in my chain Of reasoning raj
thus: "Apples are now (lS45) wort
from 10 to IL cents a bushel, II I plan
new orchard l shall in all probability 5
overstock the market that / may have t
take s cents q bushel for my fruit for
every body should set out an orchard
who would buy all the apples T' And &C
MIR, Editor, concluded not to plant a
orchard. A sage conclusion ! A conclu
sion quite as sage was reached last wee
by one Of my neighbors. 'Grapes ar
now Woth," said ho, "say twenty cen,
to fifteen cents per pound II l shall plan
| five acres in vineyard / should very prob
ably glut the market for if every bod
were to set out grape vines, who woul
buy the grapes| And go he has cor
oludsd not to plant vineyard, The fac
is no market has yet been overstocke
with first rate fruit Of any kind. Crane
as well as apples bring o higher pric
now than they did ten or twenty yea,
ago. There are thousands and tens {
thousands Of people even in Ohio vii
have never tasted cultivated grape, an
who could not, if life depended on il, to
the difference between Concord and
Delaware, or between Diana and a Har
ford Prolific, What stuff then to talk {
overstocking the market when all lAsI
land county has not furnished 10000 lb
Of grapes for salel 5.s slsa.