Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-10-03
Do YOU Use ALL
AVAILABLE PARTS
Of YOUR FARM?
Think it 0ver-Maybe There Are
Untitled Spots You Can
EXpe Lment In.
GRAPES MAKE A GOOD CROP.
Arbor Makes Place Attractive
How to Increase the Number
Of Your Vines.

Many corner of the ranch or farm,
now non-productive, can be made to
deliver its share of the annual prod
uct, add considerable to the looks of
the place from the standpoint of enter
prise at least, and even if it does not
produce in sufficiently large quanti-
ties to make it seem worth while from
the commercial standpoint, it frequent
ly will produce vegetables or fruits of
considerable value to the table.
Oftentimes experimenting in this
fruit or berry or that vegetable on such
odd lots opens the rancher's eyes to
hitherto ignored sources of money
making on the farm, showing him a
product for which there is a CONNER
cial demand that will warrant it's de-
velopment. When you think you have
good and sensible use of every part of
your ground, so far as the permanent
layout is concerned, think again
Look about; study the garden map
you have made-if you are doing the
job as you should The chances are
that you will find place for another
grape vine, perhaps for half dozen.
thus adding both to your crop total
and to the general appearance of the
entire place. The grape vine, we'll
cared for, is beautiful as we'll as fruit
full. But for it to be both there must
be a compromise scheme of give and
take between the fruit on the one hand
and the wood and leaf on the other.
That is point to remember in plan
ming for the grape vine planting. IL
an arbor is wanted to furnish shade, or
If the vine is intended to serve as an
arch the length of walk or as a
screen against the wall or to form a
summer house with walls and ceiling
of broad green leaves, the grape will
serve any or all of these purposes, but
1t will not produce much in the way of
grown clusters of well developed ber-
ries. Its fruit will be incidental--thin.
scraggly lunches, hanging here and
there from the top of the arbor, fur
nishing enough fruit, perhaps, when
all is gathered, to help out on the Jelly
making, but not much to look at as
fresh gathered fruit for the table. That
is one extren1e-the maximum of shade
and the minimum Of fruit. But if
there is plenty OF room every place
with a yard should assuredly have
some such grape arbor because of it's
attractiyeness. The other extreme is
the scientifically pruned and trained
vine, with its canes cut oil and cut
back with reference only to the best
results in the size and weight of the
fruit clusters. Several such vines as
this must be on every place IL the
owner makes any Dretentions TO be-
ing the grower of his own fruits and
vegetables. They are more important
than arbors and have the first call on
the room space if there is not enough
for both.
But the sort of VINE we had In mind
at the outset was something in the
way Of a Compromise extra piece
put i'll here and there as a filler when
the ground seems to be filled up but
really isn't. There is room for one,
no doubt, in some awkward corner
where it win serve its ornamental pur-
pose and still admit Of enough annual
restraint on its wood growth to fur
nish some good fruit, too.
Another vine will make an excellent
screen to blot out, or at least blur, the
too conspicuous view Of something un-
slightly on your own or your neighbors
land--a chicken coop, for example,
made out of an old piano box which an
amateur poultryman has neglected to
paint.
In the vegetable garden itself
string Of vines can be put along the
western edge where they will not rob
other things from the morning sun,
at eight foot intervals. A vine or two
on the eastern border will not do any
harm if the placing of the vegetable
plants is regulated accordingly. The
friendly shade of a srape vine has of.
ten saved bed OF lettuce or a patch of
green peas from the July sun.
That there are about 200 different in
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