The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-11

rows with o large pillow some IL or 70
inches deep, stretch q line crosswise at
right angles, and set o stake in the fur
row at each angle, planting avine at
each stake, spreading the roots in the
fnrrows and covering them with the fin
est soil, pressing it slightly around the
roots. Clean culture is the only method,
and the best way to destroy weeds is,
never let them grow. Tho method of
pruning the vine for the first and Sec
ond year depends somewhat on the sys-
tenn of training to be adopted in the
future. One strong cane cut back in
the fall of the first year to or 3 feet,
the two upper buds of this cane to be
used the second year to grow the main
arms. The TROLLS to be put up the third
year requires only two wires to be
placed-the one 81 feet from ground,
the other 81 feet. This is one system,
but the Fuller system / consider better,
with the exception of the principle OF
cutting back the renewals two or three
buds, by which the crop of next year is
endangered.
To insure regular crops we should
aim to grow strong canes, with well de-
veloped fruit buds, aud no matter what
system We adopt in pruning, these buds
should be preserved. 1n doing this,
there is dagger of leaving too much
barring wood, which can DO regulated
at the first disbudding the fotlewiag
spring. This should be done as early AS
the buds have grown about two inches
long, by rubbing off all, and especially
81 a hat N ira
for the crop. If this early disbudding
is properly done, then all the summer
pruning required for the Concord,, Is a
slight thinning and regulating abont
the latter part of July. The Concord
reaaires about eight buds to be left on
each arm, making sixteen buds at three
clusters each, or forty eight clusters,
averaging about twelve pounds to the
vine. At 1000 vines to the acre, this
would make total yield of 1870 pounds
of grapes to the acre, and this amount,
at fifteen cents per pound, would net
S720 as the yield for a single acre.
CabbageS-An inquiry was made at
what caused club-rooted cabbages. P.
7. Queen presented some specimens that
were so affected that they made but ht-
tie growth, although they had been
planted two months. Mr.. Queen said
that he was largely engaged in cabbage
growing, aud that he found that this
disease was very serious. This crop
cannot be grown in The vicinity OF
Newark with any certainty of success,
unless there are fully three years be-
tween crops, not even on rich and pre-
pared soil. IT planted in the same soil
| In two successive years, the crop IS GER
tain TO be almost total failure. The
same disease is esgendered by planting
cabbages in soil dressed with hog-pen
manure. Mr.. Queen offered to pay the
sum of $1,000 TO any person who will
give him reliable information how he
can grow the cabbage with success on
the same land, two years In succession.
Emigration 10 Teras.-A gentleman
made INQUIRIES as to the chance for emi-
grafton to Texcs, whereupon warm
discussion, in which political affairs
mingled rather too much for such mis-
cellaneous assemblage. The majority,
however, were of the opinion that emil
grafton of Northern men to that State
would not be safe, although others held
that any person going to Texas and
mindiRg his 0,cn business would be we'll
received.
After this discussion the subject OF
Agriculture was declared ended for the
present meeting, and the Club ad-
iOurned.