The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-04-27
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line,
,otatoas-a sandy loan two feet at least
deem will, a porous sub-soil. a clay will
not suit. nor clay sub-soil; and the root
viii rot in any soils which retain water.
The situation should be well ventilated
winged insects cannot depredase where the
wind blows but the situation should not be
bleak, or the poles will blow down, and the
vines aohip to their damage. 500, -
Prepare the soil as for wheat, and strike
double burrows eight feet apart, and cross
them with others at the same distance. AT
every intersection pulverize the soil a foot
and half deep with garden-fork level
down, and fix short stake in the centre OF
each, taking care that they are accurate by
line in both directions, as well for appear
ances as for after tillage. Leave the stake
in every eighth hia, IN every eighth roto, tui
you have SO far finished planting; these
excepted hills ore to receive staminate
(male) plant afterwards, which the grower !,
will discriminate in separate bundle al
the rest are pistillate female me num-
her Of sets to each hill may be two to hve,
depending on facilities for obtaining them
If Won plant the greater number the crop
nil he larger the first season, it will make
little difference in after years, for two sea-
sons win fill the ground with sufficient roots,
and they will be larger and produce thicker
vine stems than if more sets had been
planted. If two only are planted, place
them on opposite sides of the stake, and
always on the same opposite sides, incEn-
ing toward it at forty-fve angle, with buds
RIGHT end up, so as to be covered in one
inch. deep. Most Of them will soon start
and by the middle Of December make a
growth of foot, or in a genial season,
more. The-frst rather sharp frost will kill
them to the ground. AS soon as this nap,
pens cover each hill with long manure, and
the manure with two inches of soil. When
the spring opens and no more sharp frosts
may be expected, work in the manure with
the soil round the plants, and by LIST May,
when the plants have started, fix o stout stake
twelve to sixteen feet long (if but one) in
the centre of each hill IF you place two
stakes, which in the second and subsequent
wears is better, let it be in the two opposite
corners of the hill to those in which the sets
are placed.
EQIertdlu az pIopoAr ho uooo'AoA S
about gathering, curing, pressing, and pre-
pairing for market, but 60 on and plant the
crop. These operations are just as simple
as the planting, and full directions will nc
doubt appear in this journal well-timed for
the necessity for them. They would be
given now if room could be spared.
The writer has been familiar with hop
growing in different countries more than
half o century. He regards the domestica-
ton of the hop in this State as an accom-
plished fact. It's yield here is heavier, its
flowers more uniform, its lupuline more
abundant, and its maturity ten days earlier
than any northern hop-yard can produce,
and priority of tendays in the market in,
sures at least twenty per cent. greater price
These most important advantages will give
to Virginia the monopoly Of this crop. and
if her planters do not in few years divide
among them ten millions Of dollars per an
mum by its culture, it will befor lack of en-
terprise. w. y.