THE RAISIN VINEYARD 104

Planting 104

--Distances for Muscat Vines; the Marking Out of a Vineyard;

Relative Value of Cuttings and Rooted Vines; The Making of

Cuttings; The Care of Cuttings; Planting Cuttings; Care of

Young Cuttings; Transporting Cuttings to Distant Parts;

Rooting Cuttings; Care of Rooted Cuttings; Planting Rooted

Vines; Proper Time for Planting; Cost of Cuttings and Rooted

Vines; Winter Plowing; Plowing Devices; Cultivation; Back-

furrowing; Cross-plowing; Weed-cutters; Cutter-sled; Hoeing;

Time for Cultivation.

Grafting the Muscat on Other Stocks 117

--Time for Grafting Raisin-vines; Points to be Observed in

Grafting; Various Methods of Grafting; Stocks and their

Influence.

Various Summer Work 121

--Sulphuring; Tying Over; Covering the Vines; Thinning the

Crop; Ringing the Vines; The Vineyard Labors of the Year.

Pruning 124

--Winter Pruning or Pruning Hard Wood; Bleeding of the Vines;

Summer Pruning or Pruning Green Wood; Root-pruning;

Suckering.

Various Vineyard Tools 130

--General Notes; The Sheep’s-foot; The Planting-bar; The

Dibble; Planting Chains; Spades; Hoes; Plows; Cultivators;

Randel Disc Cultivators; The Ash-trough; Sulphuring Cans and

Bellows; The Cutter-sled; Vineyard Trucks; Shears.

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