Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-02-18

Flonculture-Mrs. j. w. Carson.
! Growing of Small Fruit-Prof. Wal
tiers.
| Opportunities for Intellectual Develop
ment In Farmers Homes Miss Carrie
Davis.
SATURDAY FORENOON EXERCISES.
| Prof. Walters started the small-frui
subject, and claimed that he had made &
success of grapes in this country. In fact
IN the country where I came from (Swit
zerlandD this is their industry. The wet
test place in western Kansas is not too
wet. L would not plant on a hillside
My former experience has taught me this
Plant on level ground, and trail your vines
on trellises. Put posts sixteen feet apart
and on these posts place three wires
Plant the vines eight feet apart. Give
them plenty of room. The method OF
culture is to mulch. In laying out a vine.
yard, cultivate the ground deep FOR two
years, and lay out in rows not more than
eight feet apart. I do not think it will
pay you to raise your own plants. Buy
them from responsible nursery. See
that your plants have plenty of roots.
Always buy plants two years old, and see
that the shoots have but two eyes. You
can buy them for four cents. The first
year these plants will grow at least two
two shoots two feet long. Do not trellis
your vines the first year or the second
year. The second year these four eyes
will drive shoots four feet long, and then
in the fourth year you must trellis, and
cut your plant SO that two runners are
allowed to grow. Train one one way, and
the other In the opposite direction. It
will not do to train your plant as low here
as further east. In the fifth year you
should have few punches of grapes, but
do not allow them to bear too much. In
the summer cut off the ends of the vines
Also check the growth by pruning. Prune
in February. The crop in small patch
will astonish you, both in the amount of
fruit and the money which you can derive
from it. have stock which bears six or
seven pailsful to the vine. Do not train
your vines too much. If you do, they
will not do as well as in the eastern part
Of this country or in Europe. You want
| the leaves to shade the vine. Of the va
rieties to plant here, is the Concord, a
standby, hardy, good-looking grape, ber-
ry large Another grape for table use is
the Delaware. Another good grape is the
| Griffith, and If you are almost certain you
will neglect your vineyard, plant the
Clinton. You can, after getting them
started, let them go. The Niagara is not
hardy grape, and does not do well. The
Isabella and the Martha are grown with
us.
will say something about the black
berry. think every farmer should plant
it. It always gives ample returns. Put
blackberries in rows two or three feet
apart. Cultivate two years, and then let
them go. The first year they will grow
two, four and six feet high. Then, in
August of the first year, pinch them back.
Mulch well. A shoot must be two years
old to bear. When they grow three feet
high, cut off again in August. Don't do
any thing to them in the way of cultiva
ton that year. Every two or three years,
pillow in the rows, and fill in with straw.
In this way you can have all the berries
You want. From patch as large as this
court room, we produced at least thirty
bushels. [ urge upon every farmer to
plant this fruit. The Kittatining is the
best of blackberries. Do not plant on the
hills. Go down into a draw, where the
soil is black and rich. We clip off the
head of the vine in order to multiply the
branches, and in doing so the berries are
multiplied. This should be done in July. !
would speak of the currant. In the
East, it does we'll, but I do not think it
will do well here.
I have the So me to say of the goose
berry.
The Male Quartette- Messrs Blair,
Metz, Curtis and DR.. Farmer-gave the
institute one of their fine selections
Annie Laurie. We would say in reference
to these gentlemen that we stump west
ern Kansas for their equals in the produc-
ton of fine vocal music.
After the Male Quartette music was di-
gested, the ladies and gentlemen farmers
of this vicinity had a fine discussion on
the strawberry.
Prof. Walters does not think that hop
culture can be made a success.
Mrs. Sawtelle's experience with the hop
was not successful Mrs. Rich claims that
a lady in Ellis county has made partial
success by growing the hop on the north
side of the house.
The Committee on Program reported the