Milford chronicle., 1908-09-25
Delaware as a Big Vineyard

h crop in Delaware by such fru
growers as +. H. Bancroft. J. "
a. Killen and J. G. Brown. are no
% about to be taken up as A great an
! proft-making industry.
:. j. F. Moore and +. T. Hipwel
=, the committee of Delaware frut
), growers who are introducing tn
cultivation of fine grapes as an ad
Z. ditional industry Of the fertile littl
State. received word on Frida,
8 from Chatauqua, n. v, where the
had sent some specimen Concord
= and Moore's Early for comparison
with the far-famed Chatauqui
= grapes.
To the delight ofthe Delawareans
word came back that the Delawar,
, grapes compared favorably with til,
Chatauquas in both flavor and colo
and the Concords were as good, i
not better than those produced II
the Empire State, a great grape
belt this year.
Grape culture will be taken III
on a large scale in Delaware. Both
Mr.. Moore and Mr.. Hipwell-and
they have interested Chancellor
John r. Nicholson as well-have
now devoted large acreage to their
grape vineyards, and Mr.. Moore
expects to have from the area al
ready planted, 1000 cases next
year.
These old Delawareans kept
trying to discourage me by telling
us that we could never get the New
York favor, said Mr.. Moore last
evening. Both Messrs. Moore and
Hipwell are native New Workers
who have recently purchased fine
fruit farms here. II must confess, "
continued Mr.. Moore, who held the
Chatuapua report in his hand as he
laughed and laughed over the sue
cess of the Delaware venture, that
they had me going for awhile. OIL
course we felt sure that they had
not studied all the intricacies of the
business as We were compelled to
do in New York,
Couldn't get the flavor Well |
this fruit has not the flavor, then
no fruit ever had flavor!"
Mr.. Moore has pointed to some
beautiful small baskets Of Concords,
packed in his carriage for some
Dover merchant who had called for
them. They are rich in flavor,
and I'll say to you that for that
Kind Of fruit the market of this
country is unlimited. The people
will buy all you can raise, if the
whole Of Delaware were a vine s
ard, "
The two years of experimenting
,iven to the raising of fancy grapes
n the Dover fruit belt has delighted
he fruit culturists. They declare
hat they have ascertained these re-
larkable conditions
The grape vineyards can be es-
lblished in Delaware at a cost of
50 an acre in New York it costs
So.
That grapes here have only one
lemy-the rosebug-and he only
amages the Moore's Early, and
'es not injure Concords or Cataw-
IS.
That grapes, like all small fruit,
lly take out of the soil twenty
e per cent. of the fertility, the
tality that is extracted by wheat
d corn. This is marked advan-
&c.
That vineyard work affords most
sirable light work in winter.
That while It means oceans of
'rk, yet the more labor that can
prOhtably employed, the more
rk there IS 10 do, the more
Dney comes in. =
That vineyard work is not only =
asant but profitable, to the ii. .
men and children of the family Fl
IS employing labor which can
be applied to grain and heavy
duct work. mi
That fruit farms were successful ul
eyards have been established in
State are now so advanced in A
e and value that many of the inst
lers will not sell.
hat Concord grapes, raised with
flavor and color attained this
r, pay the grower in Delaware, feb.
all labor supplies, interest on
.stment and loss is deducted, a
r profit of ten per centum.
rapes require trimming and
ling in the winter, all the wood
g cut out, careful cultivating
harrows and cultivators
ugh the spring, tying up in the
summer, and picking in the
summer. For this last work
are special cutting scissors
The grapes are carefully
ed, stems hidden and full
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