The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-07-08
Grape Wine.

J. NJ. L. Lexington, Ga.-Wlu you please
give simple receipt for making grape
Mine1 How long must the mash stand be
Tore pressing? Low much sugar must be
used to the gallon and when should il Je
added. How much water. if any?
Let the grapes be fully ripe. Remove all
imperfect berries: crush without breaking
the seeds. II lisht colored wine is wanted
press at once. IL red wine is desired, lei
the mass stand twenty-fOur hours, then
press. Add sugar enough to the must 10
cause n fresh hen egg TO float so as TO
show al the surface large a dime.
Place the sweet must In clean barrels or
jugs. which must be filled full and kept SO
10y daily adding some juice reserved FOR
the purpose. Put the vessel in as cool place
as you can md. Cover the bunghole, or
mouth Ct the jug with small bag hlleu
with clean sand, which VIII permit the froth
and scum TO escape but prevent too free
access OF air and insects. When the wine
ceases 10 ferment put I'm the bung or stop
per loosely, and after several days drive
il home. 1t l. now new wine. In November
or December rack It off carefully from the
drecs into clean vessels which must also
be full. in March IL may be racked second
time and then bottled II desired. 1t VIII
generally require about ! 10 : pounds Oh
sugar TO the gallon Of Juice. After pressing
the Juice the pomace may be broken up
and two-third. as much water as of juice
EXPRESSED may be added. Let il stand
twenty-fsur hours. press, add sugar as
before and treat In all respects as you did
the first flow.
To w T. Moore. Hatchers Ga.-You can
probably get the seed you want of John G.
Bridgewater, Mt Juliet, Tenn. II he cannot
supply them he can probably tell you where
TO get them.
Subscriber. Boggy. Tex.-When is the
best time 10 plant alfalfa or lucerne in our
dry, hot country?
; How viii it do to plant with oats to
help keep down the wccds2 1 nave the
land In cotton now. How could l best pre-
pare for plantingY
I. September and October Is the best time
10 SOW lucerRe. but we have succeeded
when sowing as late the middle of No
vcmber. As u rule. however II the planting
cannot be done before November It is better
10 defer II until March. Lucerne requires
"a very rich. deep, light loan, and the So
should be clear OF seeds OF weeds and
grass Two years OF clean cultivation IA
cotton would be a good cleaning process.
:. Prepare the land by repeated deep plow-
ins- In advance of the time for sowing
just as you would for "brag crop" of
Tutabasa turnips. Then lay or rows TWEEN
ty-four inches apart, distribute 400 to $50
pounds OF a good potash sulpnophosphate
per acre. Bed up with scooters harrow the
beds smooth AMI SOW in drills half inch
ICY AZ the rate OF Twelve or nltctn pounds
OF seed per acre. BE sure 10 have the land
rich-rich enough tor Cabbages. and clean
Of weed seeds. 40 thinning out will Ice
required. Keep clean Of weeds IL any APP
pear by careful cultivation.
q. II. Clayton, Eberharlt. s. CT bace
seventeen acres Of high land that every
Dig ram packs the soil so hard until 1
can scarcely plow It, Last year / planted
IL in corn and piuders. 1 thought that
the pinder vines would raise the soil but
j don't see any difference in il this year
and previous. years. This year ] have il
In cotton. Can you tell me what 1 can
follow the cotton with that viii raise the
soil.
>. / have thirty-nve acres OF other land
that plant in cotton every year with good
seasons The cotton Will lock up In four
foot rows and make an average OF four
feet high, but ! rarely ever gather more
than l.UUU pounds of seed cotton per acre;
some few acres 1 get a bale. l can make
a fine weed hut it don't put on fruit
enough. Anybody riding along the road
would think that IL would make from one
and a half TO two bales per acre. Ii is
mostly low land and / use all the stable
manure and compost L can raise on IL and
a good portion of my cotton seed. also
use kainit. salt and acid and fried all kinds
of high-grade guano with the KANT, among
them being the Atlantic phosphate. Inn
perial phosphate. Eutaw phosphate and
Ashepoo phosphate and about half a dozen
other kinds, and don't any difference
in any | think, though, the kainit and