Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-02-19
New" E'rI.tJIixcl. Cor"
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It's interesting to- observe how
told things bccnme new" arid how
OLD methods aud receipts are peIindI-
calIy revived. Many years ago there
was great stir made about the value
of the pruning Of the grapevine MS a
fertilizer for vineyards. Those Of
your readers that have read Lirbig' $
Agricultural Chemistry will rcmem-
Der how emphatic lie was in advocat-
California Farmer has lately been
impressed with the Importance ,f re
turning to tie soil all the pruuings
and 0ilier waste iimtter: and the
/ American journal of Horticulture
/ and some other periodicals give their
endorsement Of the system. That
the rrunings, finely chopped up anal
well plowed in, would he OF value
there is no doubt, although there are
some drawbacks which have not
been taken into consideration. Thus
it ltas occasionally been suspected
that dccayiug wood is apt to induce
disease in the roots Of vines IL in
contact with them. But the great
difficulty Is the labor involved. In
this country Of OK pensive labor we
cannot afford to hire men or even
boys for the purpose Of cutting MP
our waste prunings. Ii is not impos-
sih!e, hnwever. that u very strong
and powerful machine like IA straw
cutter might he used. Que such ma
chine would serve IL whole HrighhOr-
hood and would reduce the cuttings
to such condition that they could
easily he plowed under without any
difficulty. Still after all it il 81 seri-
Our inwesSinn is that the benefit to
he derived from the use or chopped
up cuttings has hreu greatly over
rated. We tried the plan once, select
ing out he smaller shoots ana cat
Hug them up with straw cutter,
,..
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