The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-10

Than poor coil. though ana sandy sell
In Eastern North Carolina can Be
made very profitable In Scuppernong
Grapes
A word as to h profit An acre VII,
set lilo vines. At three years old with
proper care, they should produce FROM
n peck TO a q bushel each. At four
years old they should produce no less
than n TO two bushels each. At this
thine you can stu cultivate one-half
tine land. At seven years old you
should be getting from four hundred 10
Eight hundred bushels per acre. TAX
ling the lowest estimate. say four hun-
Iered bushels Al IS cents per busheI.
which we propose to pay for choice
grapes. you have an income OF $500 per
acre. as low estimate for each year.
Wines live to be over a hundred years
old. The Old Mother Vine il stiIl living
on Roanoke Island. and Is over three
hundred years old. and bore fruit last
year though utterly neglected. and Its
roots are bare. No crop you can grow
win give such sure returns. Ten acres
IN grapes viii insure any man q steady
Income after seven years: which beats
ANY life insurance policy. While it pre-
Iduces some times larger crops thau
Iothers. IL never fails utterly.
TIC land owners who will set cut vines
I'VE propose TO give contracts guarantee
ling a market at @ regular and FAIR scale
lef prices. for i've years or longer. they
Ito guarantee TO sell US the crop each
Iyear, We to take ali the crop that II
gathered and offered properly at The
nearest railroad station, or At our
WINERY.
North Carolina has, in the Eastern
part OF the state. more than a million
lacres Of land adapted to the growth OF
this grape. Granting that only one
Iacre in eac one hundred were planted
and that the minimum crop OF 400 BUSH
els per acre were produced. and that
leach bushel produced three gallons of
wine. we have twelve million gallons
lof the finest wine In the world when
properly mad This is nearly half a.
lmuch as California makes. france
(which is not so very mush larger than
Jour state, produces over n billion gal
lions Of wine. North Carolina COULD,
lif\her people only WOULD. be in his
respect the SOUTHERN FRANCE OF
IAMERICA, and could make as much
lwine as France, the greatest wine pro-
lducing country in the world. We hope
Ito see the work started. II the farmers
will make the grapes, we will try to
make the wine and sell il.
There is no publisher reaties on
grape growing that is worth a cent as
applied to Scuppernong. Plant IL prop
lerly, give il half-a-chance, and IL will
make you rich in spite OF yourself-in-
f0anpnEarf AZ iaaGf takes a hffEsa
thine. Do not prune 1t ever. except
when necessary TO keep 1t in shape while
|young. If cut 1t bleeds and d.es, or
docs not thrive. Give 1t arborage. and
mice rich soil. protected from the sun
land rains by rich loam~ or woods-mould.
land it will grow fast you forget you
planted it five years before. Don't be
deferred by the five years-you have
1.-THE use Of nearly all your land while 1t
lis growing. and once in full bearing,
you don want, at most over fifty acres
Ito take care OF a large family In COM
lfort-even afluence. Even IL ii netted
lyou only 800 per acre, and you had only
twenty-five acres. 1t beats cotton or
tobacco as a money crop. Don't go In
too big at first: plant five TO ten acres
leach year; then the posting and wiring
ldon't come all at once and break you,
land you begin to get some income by the
ltime expenses OF wiring becomes heavy
We advise If you purpose to have a
Vineyard OF twenty-five acres. to set
Iout Ave acres each year. If you want.
lffty acres set out ten acres each year..
In five years you will be on Easy street,
lin ten years o will be perfectly in
dependent. To any man who will set
lout vineyard we will give a contract
to take his entire product. Get near a
shipping point so you won't have SO far
Ito haul your grapes. They are heavy
land must be shipped promptly after
being gathered. We hav and will have
facilities TO handle them as fast as the
Ifara.cr3 can ship them.
Yours very truly,
SOL. REAR e CO.