The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-13

GRAPE GROwING.-As L never lose a
crop of grapes from frost in spring or
from rot or mildew in summer, and
have used this plan, after expert
menting with many recommended
methods of training, pruning, &c, for
eight years, l can recommend it on
fidently. The vines can be grown. as
for other plans of training. the first
two years. At the first pruning after
the vines are two years old, if vines
are strong so as to have two arms to
fasten to the wire, in opposite direc-
tions, | put in a stake equally dis
tant between each two vines. The
stakes should be six feet long and put
eighteen inches deep into the ground.
[ then fasten a wire-No. Is Will DO
to each stake along the row and give
each vine a wrap or two around the
Wire /: they need no tying. | then
place plank, full length of the rows, on
top of the stakes, driving one nail
through the plank into each stake.
The plank should be twelve to fifteen
inches wide, and six inches above the
vine. | always let two shoots grow
about six inches below the wire for
the next years fruiting all other
shoots l pinch the ends off of at about
three leaves from last bunch Of grapes
and take off all suckers hat may APP
pear after pinching, except the last
one, which l do not pinch any more.
l have no tying up of young shoots,
as | let them grow in their own ma
tural way, and by the time the fruit
is full grown the vines loaded with
fruit are under Y where dew aud
heavy rains and hail cannot injure in
the least, and the f~ruit-even the
Concord--can be kept on the vines for
weeks after being fully ripe. | have
Kept them sound on the vines until
frost in autumn. This is not costly
here where plank is worth only 81 per
hundred feet. Forty of the lie ding
varieties of grapes have been grown
here on this plan, and all proved sue
cessful. GRAPE GROWER.
Red Plains, Yadkin county. n. c.
CONVENTION OF PEANUT GROWERS.
The annual meeting Of the Peanut
Growers Association of Eastern North
Carolina was heidat the Purcell House
in this city at II o'clock this morning
D. T. Durham, Esq, Of Rocky Point
was elected President, and Mr. r. K.
Bryan, Jr. Of SCOTS Hill Secretary.
The meeting thus organized proceeded
to business. Committees were aD~
pointed for each township in the pea
nut section in the S ate, whose duty |
it shall be to report at the next meet
ing the acreage and condition of the
crop. The Secretary was instructed
to correspond with planters in Nir-
ginia and Tennessee to gather all the
Information possible in regard to the
extent and growth of the crops in |
those States, and to report at the next
meeting.
Committees from townships in the
different counties which were appoint
ed to ascertain the number Of bushels
their reports, from which the follow
gathered. OF the Rocky Point sec |
bushels. Sound Section, ! 600 bush
low. 1000 bushels. Total number of
bushels still held by planter, 23.jOO.
Number of bushels estimated to be in
hands of dealers in this city, 10,
Total number of bushels in hands Of
planters in this section and dealers in
this city, 80, 500.
Stock ON hand stored in Wilmington
at this season last year $4,000 bush
els.
1t was ascertained that the crop this
year in North Carolina would fall
short from So. 600 to 40, 900 bushels
Regieu.
PROFITS OF HEAVILY MATURING
CLAY SOFIA writer in the New
York TribuDp saws the DlOtS which