Smyrna times., 1883-08-29
A Valuable Fruit Farm.

There are few if any of our farmers
with the same capital invested doing a
nicer if as nice farming business with
the same profit as Jas. w. Anthony, %
miles west of this town. In hasty
visit to his attractive home yesterday
we found him down on his knees in
the barn Ia position he is frequently
found in during the grape season. ar
ranging the covers on a dozen or two
well filled baskets of grapes he was
preparing for market. They were of
the Concord variety, which he saws
must be marketed in peach baskets to
sell to the best advantage. Beside
them were two crates holding II bask-
cts of pounds each. These were of
the Martha variety, white grape
which the trade accepts as fancy"
and expects them prepared accordingly.
They have sold in Boston right along
at l5 and l6 cents per pound, while the
Concord has sold for and 10 cents.
Mr.. Anthony puts them in the baskets
himself, rejecting all that are not per-
feet, and it is doubtless from this fact
that his brand commands usually = to
cents more Il pound in the market
than most that go in at the same time.
He is careful of their culture from the
Spring on through the Summer prun-
ing, allowing only two punches to grow
on lateral, or twenty to the whole
vine. They are trained on q wire trel-
lis s>and thus while getting during the
| growing season the full play of sun and
air, are more convenient to gather than
when trained to stakes. He has 1900
vines in bearing. From half acre of
| COncOrd's this year he has 5000 pounds
of grapes. The highest prices obtained
have been from his Martha's, white in
color and very sweet, of which he has
24O vines, the yield being this year
l.2OO pounds, the first year of fruiting.
| The pride of his vineyard however is
his Niagara" variety, 400 vines, am
Der white, the few bunches that have
fruited this year showing the lunches
to grow large and perfect, and the
globes unusually large. The propagat-
ers of the Niagara will furnish them
only on certain conditions guarding
their extension and in quantities not
less than 300 or 400 vines. They GER
tainly take the lead of any white grape
now In market. Mr.. Anthony's brother
Henry who is cultivating grapes to a
larger extent than he, has several hun
dred vines of this variety, and William
Wood ON the other side of the town
set out 800 of them the past Spring.
Mr.. Anthony has 50 acres in straw
berries which yielded him this Summer
1000 quarts, and he has 10 to 10 acres
in raspberries and blackberries. His
peaches this year will yield about 1000
baskets, one third of crop. His crops
of wheat and corn are but subsidiary tO
his fruit, and intended only for domes.
tic use. An equal space to the above
might be devoted to his house and
grounds; the complete arrangement OF
his farm buildings in relation to them.
selves and the dwelling; how the farm
is so arranged that the stock pasturine
in any field have free access to the
water trough and shade of the orchard
how one well (log pump) of water il
the yard supplies the house without
going outside of it, and at the same
time the barn yard 20 or so feet dis
tant by hydraulic pressure &C., &c.
but our space will not at this time ad
! NIT Of us going into further interesting
! detail.