Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-11-06

tabula Farmers md Mechanics Association,
report that ,het visited SEVEN Farms, situated
In the Townshira Of saybrock, Ashtahula, and
KinCsville and went thoroughly over them all,
and carefully noted their condition and the
products If each, the amount of stock kept,
and the amount of help empioyedin carrying
on each. '..i ..N
They also visited one Vineyard and one
Garden.
They have made the following awards:
First premiums-Perrv Parker. Kinesville,
farm, S5: same, farm buildinrs, S3 Elijah
Bliss, garden, $S; Buckley Hubbard, vineyard,
g. ...
Second nrrmiums--w. IT. Landon, farm, $3; (;
Marvin w. Dale, farm buildines, 81.
The committee wish to say. further, that they
were highly pleased with the very fine appear
ance Of all the farms offered for competition,
and they found the task very difficult one to
decide upon the awards.
They would say IN reference to the vineyard,
that anv one contemplating setting vines or
having done so. ought bv all means to visit
and carefully examine the mode Of trelisng,
the style Of pruning the general appearance
~
talk with Mr.. HURBARp. tho nrorrietor.
The vineyard embraces shouf one and half
acres Of land. and consists Of about 200
vines-4OO Delaware, 400 Cntawha, 100 Diana,
planted In the spring Of 1866: vincs feet apart
each wny: plants were started Ivy Emory Luce,
from single-eve outlines. made in the winter
Of 1868 md 1896; ia Concord, SGT In 1867 /;
100 Iona. in 1868; 100 Salem, in 1869; 90 Is
rarlla and Isabella; and "a Of various other
varieties. Wire trclls, trained on horizontal,
double spur system. From the 400 Della
ware vines the crop this year was 2.G00 pounds
of well-rinrned fruit. Catawbas mostly fail
ure for shinnin0; snme is irrc of Dianas; also,
Of the Israella and Isabella Concortls. so vines
in bearing produced about 900 pounds Of good
fruit,
=, With the Garden 81 T.. Bliss the committee
were verv much graiifod md would ms highly
recommend II ~ a model ns they do the vino
yard Of Mr.. Hubbard. The garden embraces
one and Of an acre Of land. taking to center
Of Round-hrad Road $50 called, embracing
land occupied by houses. barn, shedding hen
yard, bsrn-yard, and the nsedful drive-ways
and walks.
Products Of the garden this season: 1870
bush. strawberries IS bush raspberries about
1900 lbs. grapes; sold $44 worth of peaches
9 bush. ounces; large quantity of currants
| a bush. pears; 150 good squashes; ~ bush
red peppers; 2 his hops; bush beets; 45
bush. turnips Al bush. potatoes; 80 OTIS. goose
berries about 2 bush backberries; 80 90
worth grapevines, grown in open ground
sold; 300 raspberry sets sold BITS strawberry
plants for $37 25; set fer self 2,775: still or
hand about 500 plants; 200 heads of cabbage
sold 1900 lbs. tomatoes. averaging about
cents per To-. ; besides all the fruit and vegeta
hles consumed in the family.
On the land there are the following trees
bushes and vines:
20 npple-trees, 8 years old, averaging is
inches in circumference,
25 appe-trees, 2 yenrs old, averaging inche:
in circumference.
90 peach-trecs. years old, averaging "a
inches in circumference.
9 quince.trces, 8 years old, averaging II
inches in circumference.
IA quince-trees, to years old averaging
inches In circumference.
IA cherry trees years old. averaging 2(
inches In circumference
Spear-trees, 4 years old, averaging 0 inche.
In circumference.
weeping willow, 9 years old, 40 inches il
circumference.
$50 hills raspberries, TO canes each
1877 hills raspberries, to 0 canes each, / yeai
old.
2l hills Lawt0n blackberry.
ia hills Lawton blackberry, year old.
ia grapevines, mostly young.
About 200 grapevinos, growing from cut
tings year.
81 currant-trees and bushes, mostly young
l3 gooseberry bushes; 2 Siberian crab apple
trees, inches in circumference a bed of as
paragus and pie-plant, feet by so, and in'
flower garden.
Also, ground n by rs feet, used for hot-beds
In which plants were raised for sale and TO
home use; alss, bed for cabbage plants II
open ground, producing about 500 plants
grass plats; in all embracing 10 square rods.
OF these crops there was put 10 the proceed
of 900 square feet of land, and The proceeds o
"a raspberry hills and 81 blackberry plants
being land hired of Julius Bliss son, Of sal,
E. Bliss
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