The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-31
day. especially if extra grain feed is given

day, especially If extra grain feed is given
increases II.
Grapevines on Posts.-None of the
American grapes will do Its best when
planted so closely as to be restricted to
single post on which to grow and mature
its fruit. This plan originates in Eu-
rope and Is adapted to the climate OF
France and Southern Germany and the
kinds of grapes there grown. Usually
the post is merely a stake, the trunk of
the vine growing UP to that hight and
bearing a number of shoots with fruit
az the top. As the vines are only four feet
apart, a small yield of fruit per vine makes
a good return forNthe acreage occupied.
But our grapevines planted so closely as
this Will mildew If restricted to so small
growth as this. The experience of most
successful grape-growers is that eight feet
apart each way, or better still with trel-
Uses eight feet apart and vines set ten
feet In rows, provides room for the vine
to make a growth that can be kept
healthier than can closer planting. More
than one grape-grower has planted six
feet apart In rows and after a few years
has found the vines crowding too much
and has taken out every other vine. keep
ing the foliage healthy and producing
more and better fruit than did the vines
more closely planted.-American Guilt
Vator.
Grapes, like other fruits need TO be
carefully handled to bring the best prices.
The vines need to be gone over frequent-
ly during the ripening season, gathering
only those with fun color, because grapes
do not, like other fruits, color after be-
ing gathered. The punches should be cut
off with pair of scissors and so handled
as not to disturb the bloom. Ordinary
varieties may be at once packed from the
vines into the basket that is intended for
sale. Choice varieties should be gath
oh. ha air N
they should stand day or two on shelves
in the fruit house, and then repacked. BY
this treatment the stems will wilt and the
punches will then keep without molding
and pack more closely than when green.
Canada Horticulturlst
Little Farms in Japan Japan, and not
France or Belgium, would appear 10 be
the land of petite culture. According to
a recent American bulletin a couple of
acres Is considered a large tract for
farming purposes Most of the farms are
smaller, and on a little plot a surprising
variety of crops Is cultivated-a few
square feet of wheat, barley maize and
millet a plot of beans, perhaps ten feet
wide by twenty feet long, a similar area
of potatoes and peas. and a patch OF on
ions about as big as a grave;" beet root,
lettuce, turnips sweet potatoes and other
crops occupy the rest of the area. The
farmer examines his growing crops every
morning Just as an engineer lnspects MS
machinery and if anything Is wrong he
puts il right. If a weed appears In the
bean patch he pulls Il up; n hill of pota-
toes or anything else falls II Is at once re-
planted When he cuts down a tree he
always plants another AS soon as one
crop is harvested the soil Is worked over,
MANFRED, and forthwith re-sown to an
other crop. 1t Is estimated that nine-tenths
of the agricultural land of Japan Is de-
voted to rice, and as this is crop requir-
ing much water, the paddy fields are
banked up into terraces, one above the
other, and divided off into small plots
twenty-five feet to thirty feet square, with
ridges of earth between them to prevent
the water from flowing away when they
are flooded. All farming lands are irri-
gated by a system that is 1000 years old.
Some of the bitches are walled up with
bamboo wicker work and some with tiles
and stone Nearly half the total popula-
ton OF Japan Is engaged In agriculture.
SILK and tea, the two chief exports Of the
country. are raised almost by the work
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