The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-09-22

LABOR IS not lAfu, ana llLDeIb arc GAhuh ca
in the family they can make themselves
very useiul. There are farmers with ten
times twenty acres whose gross returns
would look very small beside the vine
yardist's receipts from his twenty acres.
MARKETING THE PRODUCT.
Lubbock raises graf variety OF grapes,
but the Concord and the Virginia Seed
ling carry the burden OF the business,
The Concord brings q cents pound, and
GOES to Cincinnati. The Seeding IS sold
to the Ohio .winemRkers at 8 cents
pound, being itch in coloring matter and
therefore in great request. At Captain
MeldAhPs, at Mr.. Muenchmeyer,s, (6oth
on Washington Bottoms), at Mr.. SIevoGts,
and believe tho same is true Of these
vineyards generally, the vines are heavy
in fruit OF first quality; it seems as though
they will break under their weight. Yet
the vineyardist is careful to leave on the
vines no more fruit than they will carry,
and so they 60 on year after year.
Mr.. Won Trippenbach, Mr.. SlevoS 8
brother.iu-law and the manager OF his
vineyard, shows me Seeding vines seven
teen years old which are carrying an
enormous weight OF iEuit, and he says
they are well able TO stand it. l asked
Capt. Meldahl about the phylloNsra. He
turned up leaf and showed me the
pest which has made 80 much trouble in
Europe, and remarked, "We pay no at
tenion to that" The vines are go
vigorous that hephylloxera doesnot dam
age them.
I find that these authorities differ as to
the setting out Of q vineyard, Capt. Mel
dahl sets out his plants l2xl5. His earlier
practice was to give them les room, l0xl2.
Now he sets them further apart that the
air may have freer play through the vines.
In the Slevogt vineyard thu distance each
way is eight feet, and when Is4ked II that
was enough was pointed to the vines
and their fruit. So suppose We shall
have to leave this question to the disagree
ing doctors.
In the Meldahl vineyard has appeared a
Concord accident which Capt. Mejdahl
calls the Garfield, because it is unusually
fine fruit. This shows what kind Of
man Meldahl is. The Garfield resembles
in size and appearance the Black Ham
burg and is bringing twelve cents pouad
rs choice tIb!e grape. This sport" is
being carefully nursed and its field OF use
fuluess extended.
SOME PERSONAL NOTES.
am told that Mr.. Henry Muench-
meyer will this year ship 100000 pounds
Of Seeding alone. hear something else
about Mr.. Muenchmeyer He is the sur
viyor of two brothers who married sisters
and enjoyed in common the fruits oil their
labor. They made contract that each
4 u, kup oh oh oil
out OF the common fund without any re-
gard to the number OF children in each
brothers family. Mr.. Louis Muench.
meyer died and the tNo families, though
not occupying the same house, in every
other way are fl one family. Then there
il Mr.. Edmund Dsgener. another
grape grower, who is a brother :n-iaw
to the MuenchmeyeIs, and Capt, Meldahl
married hail lister to the Muenchmey-
ers. So that the first thing that We know
somebody is going to bs puzzled in an
effort to figure out degrees OF con. 1ngui-
nity after The second removal. Meantime
here is community Of good citizens who
KNOW how use tue stranger that is with
in their gates. Among the other persons
engaged in grape growing here, are Messrs.
U, Weinberger, charles krusgar, Henry
Smith, Albert SchradeT, l. Smith, A. l..
Hollister, Horace Cook; AZ Volcano Messrs.
John Eshbacher and W. G. Stiles, Jr., and
at Parkersburg Mrs. Waller.
A REMINlScENCE OF THE REVOLUTION.
After dinner Mrs. M.ldahl consented 10
give US come plano music. She ran her
fingers over the keys and drapped into q
Renaissance OF the Revolution OF 1918.
It YVES d. 'hing gallop, played with pc
culiar Zsst. "When we heard that" f1id
Mrs, Meldahl," We knew the soldiers were
In the streets. In those days my hus-
band was our enemy" she said, with q
playful glance at Cspt. Meliahl, a Dane
by BIZ h who had fought in the Danish
army. Then il came cat that after tue war
the father OF Mrs. MeldAhl, a German
advocate Of eminence, had sought rest in
Sweden, where he purchased laRd and
est Ib!ished his family. Young Meldahl
came along, won the winBome ffaultin's
hel. :, and there is family Of young men
and girls who bring back the old days to
the lovers from over the Esa. One OF the
boys, Tony, is known rs one OF the best
piIot, on the Ohio. This descendant Of
the fierce sea kings amuses himself in his
OF hours with the peaceful psstime CT
photography, and good work he does.
must not omit TO say that Captain
iicidahI, Scott P. O., and T. T. f. SIeyogt,
Lubbock 7. g., are "ottensive partisans. =
Each one he' postollics under his wing.
Slevogt dates back to Lincoln and both
are solidly offensive. They like to poipt
to tho Republican school houses that dot
the hills and nestle in the valleys, and
they are proud Of the part they bore in
putting them there. c.B.H.
IT Is a blind confidence TO suppose
yourself incapable OF mistake. 1t Is in
deed a serious blHHder to reigse to take
DR.. HILLS Cough Syrup when you even