The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-03

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tween the posts. which are set in even
rows. Another ! or boy. with q
forked stick. shakes the vine gently
just above the sheet. and the ripe grapes
fall and are caught. Children pick mp
the few grapes which fall outside the
sheet. The vines should not be beaten
hard. as not only do you thus get green
fruit. but damage the vines by break
ing the tender new growth which pro-
duces the crop next year. or o OF 81
The leaves can be famed out by a fan
mill or picked out by hand: q fan-mil.
Is best. and can be moves along as you
go over the vines. The vines should
be gon over "a often as h grapes
rfpen. as you can not gather all the
grape at one time without getting
green or overripe craps, either Of
which lowers the grade o. grapes what
we desire particularly is tho White
Scuppernong grape. IL We are rs sue
cessfuI in building Up a trade on n
Red Scappernon as We have been on
the white. We shall be willing To pay "a
r1uch for Niash and James Grapes as for
the white grapes: and the James
Grapes produce a heavier yield. as q
rule. and require a heavier character
~ Sl1x. more NllEEa2S@ G3pGknz n0@ kbo
stiff. Good soil will produce better re-
suits than poor soil. though any sandy
soil In Eastern North Carolina n be
made very profitable in Scuppernung
Grapes.
A word as TO the profit An acre will
SET lilo vines. At three years old with
proper care. they should produce from
a peck to a half hushel each. At four
- IAnA
than one 10 two bushels each. At this
time you can still cultivate one-half
the land. At seven years old you
should be getting from four hundred To
eight hundred bushels per acre. TAX
ing the lowest estimate. say four hun
dred bushels at IS cents per bushel.
which we propose to pay for choice
: grapes. you have an income OF $500 per
acre. rs a low estimate for each year.
Vines live to be over a hundred years
old. The Old Mother Vine IL stils living
on Roanoke Island. and Is over three
hundred years old. and bore fruit last
year though utterly neglected. Its
roots are bare. No crop YOU can grow
will give such sure returns. Ten acres
In grapes viii insure any mar a steady
income after seven years; which beats
any life Insurance policy. While II pro-
duces some times larger crops than
others, il never fails utterly.
To land owners who viii set o u vines
we propose to give contracts guarantee
ing a market at a regular and fair scale
OF prices. for five years or longer. they
to guarantee to sell us the crop each
year. we to AXE all the crop that Is
gathered and offered properly at the
nearest railroad station, or At our
winery.
North Carolina has. I'm the Eastern
part Of the state. more than n million
acres of and adapted To the growth or
this grape. Granting that only ono
acre in each one hundred were planted,
and that the minimum crop OF 400 bush
els per acre were produced, and h
, each bushel produced three gallons or
wine. we have twelve million gallons
of the finest wine In the world when
properly made. This Is nearly half as
much as California makes. France
which is not so very much larger than
our state, produces over a billion gal
Ions OF wine. North Carolina COULD,
IL her people only WOULD, be in this
respect the SOUTHERN FRANCE OF
AMERICA. and could make as mucn
wine as France. the greatest wine pro-
ducing country in the world. We hope
to see the work started. If the farmers
will make the grapes. We VIII try to
make the wine and sell IL.
There is no published treaties on
grape growing that is worth a cent as
applied 10 Scuppernong. Plant II prop
erly, give it h~alf-a-chance. and 1t viii
MAKE you rich In spite of yourself-in
dependent, 1t least. IL k n little
time. Do not prune' II ever, excepI
, when necessary to keep IL I'm shape while
!. young. II cut IL bleeds n dies, ol
!, does not thrive. Give II arborage, ant
nice rich soil protected from the SUI
. and rains by rich loan. or woods-mould
|, and 1t will grow so fast you forget yo'
: PLANTED IL five years before. Don't 81
, deferred by the five years-you hav'
!. the use of nearly all your land while 4
is growing, and once in full bearing
you don't want, at most over fifty acre
! TO take care of a large family in com
: fort-even affiuence. Even IL Il nettet
= you only 800 per acre, and you had onl!
- twenty-five acres. Il beats cotton o
: tobacco as A money crop. Don't go II
too big al first: plant five 10 ten acre
o each year; then the posting and wirinI
;, don't come all at once and break you
- and you begin to get some income by tn
: time expenses OF wiring becomes heavy
> We advise IL o purpose to have
> vineyard of twenty-five acres, 10 SC
. out five acres each ysar. If you wan
fifty acres set out ten acres each yea
= In five years you viii be on easy street
!. fin ten years you will be perfectly In
- dependent. To any man who viii -
out vineyards We viii give a contrac
TO a K his entire product. Get near
shipping point so you won't have so ia
- TO haul your grapes. They are heaV
- and must be shipped promptly att
!. being gathered. We have and will hay
:, have facilities 10 handle them as IA
- as the farmers can ship them.
Yours very truly,
SOL BEAR & CO.