Successful Cultivation Of The Grape

"Probably the most Buccessíul cultivator of the grape in the yicinjty of Cincinnati is John IJ. Mottier. Last yuar his orop ol wioe wi.s over five tliousand gallons, and this y(ar - when the rot in aome vineyai-ds was so bad as to produce almost a total (hilare - his erop was nearly four thousand gallons. Ho has "about ton acres in grapes. "Air. Mottier attributea lus lilmr.st uniform suüeess in grape culture to the fact that he prunos different irom most othera.' X ii seléctincr iii the spring the beariag wood forthe coming nip. and which is always the well-rnaturd canos oí the previous year's gnnvth, ho does not cut thom otf within 'i or 3 feet of their base, U do manv; but he cuts thern off 4J ar.d 5 feet loog. He then places the lowei' part perpeudiculaily ijgjiiinst the stake to the Luight of 18 ! ÜièhWor so, tiiun bends the remuining pórtioa of the eane in a horizontal positio:), so Bj to extond to a ntihboring stake threo feet dislant. In summer pruning he never bronka off the em.s oí' Buoh new vines as he permita tu gi-ow- a praotiee uhuost universal with vineyard mei, He contends that the rusult of shortening in, is that a portion of the grapes never ripen on Muqutjt of the loaves l'alling ofi" ui consaquence oí the premature riponing of the wood. When the leaves fall off, the grapes do uot ripen ii' improve any more. "Mv. Mottior uniformly gives good cultivation to his vineyurd. He plows or digsovor the soil iñthetall vvhenever it is possiblo fof him to do so."