The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-08-23
OVER 500 PER ACRE.
Made by Tiiling Wake County Soil--
How it is Done--Pleasure With

Made by Tiiling Wake County Soil--
How it is Done--Pleasure With
Erofit.
The CHRONICLE has frequently heard
Raleigh people, who have been off on
tours Of various kinds, tell about what
they have seen in their travels. They
have frequently told of places where
from $500 to $75, 90 net per acre could
be made by tilhng the soil. Many of
these tourists, while abroad, learn NOR
about foreign communities than they
know about their own
What, for instance, would the average
Raleigh citizen say if he should 90 to
California and learn that $10O per acre
could be made there by grape growing?
This very thing has been done around
Raleigh for several years past, though
few people have found it out.
In most places where land can be
| n1sde to yield 800 per acre at anything,
that land can barely be bought for less
than $500 per acre; but in Wake coun-
ty and around Raleigh, it can be bought
very much cheaper and will yield the
same profit.
To show what can be done in this Sec
ton, the CHRONICLE prints with pleasure
short paper by Capt B, P. William
son, of this city, giving his experience
and results in grape growing. It was
written by request and was read at the
recent Mt. Holly Fair.
Mr.. J. VAN LrNDLEY, :PREs'T. n. @.
STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
AS requested by your Secretary give
below my experience in growing grapes:
In the year 1885 l planted on
a gravelly top soil, with clay subsoil,
four acres In grape vines 5000 Ives and
1000 Champions, they being the two
earliest known reliable varieties.
Before planting, the land was deeply
and we'll prepared, then narrowed out
and the vines planted eight feet apart
each way. This was done in February.
In April planted two rows Of cotton
between the grape vines, the rows al
running the same way. | cultivated
grapes and cotton alike, both growing
we'll. In 1885 [ planted only one row OF
cotton between the grape vines, getting
again fine growth of vines and cot
ton. | applied 800 pounds Of Ammo
mated Guano to the acre each year
planted no cotton in the year 1887
but gave all the land to the vines. Il
February sowed 500 pounds OF kaini
: and super. osphate combined OF
each acre, ana ploWed the land bott
ways CLOSE and DEEP with one h0rs;
plows. After that | cultivated and KEEP
the vines clear Of grass and weeds Will
cotton sweeps, which means SHALLOW
9 cultivation, ard is, according to my judg
9 ment, the right way. About the middl
J.. of May soWed on each acre 500 pound
t of Raleigh Standard Guano, and cultiva
: ted it in with sweeps, and then discor
r tinued cultivation.
Since 1887, when gathered my frs
u crop of grapes, have fertilized and Gu
! tivated the same way, getting results 6
r follows:
}. 1887 1895 pounds.
/ 1888 17,94S
l. 1889 22,o26 /"
is Making 54, ,969 pounds for the thrG
le years, which were sold to net me aboy
II all the expenses Of the cultivation, fert
lizing, packages, shipping, selling, &c
IS $1,236.S0, being $412 26 per acre f
n three years, or an average of $103 O6 p
n acre each year. 's
le My crop for 1890 has turned out
1t we'll or better.