Show MOVING GRAPE VINES I have raised and worked with grapevines grape-vines for more than twenty years and think them to be the most easily handled of any plant vine or tree They bear rough handling and semI to enjoy being cut all to pieces I i I move them jt all ages without loss Those that I moved after having been set twelve year were as large as I could carry They bore fruit the second sec-ond year after removal and have borne fruit every year since Cut them down In November to four feet high In the last part of April dig about them two spades deep the size of a front wagon wheel cut the roots with the spade and do not do too j I much pulling Remove the dirt and I you will find that the vine is fat bottomed about sixteen Inches down Do not allow the roots to dry before resettng do not set near a tree and do not let any grass grow about the vines Annual weeds do not hurt the vines but keep the ground from washing wash-Ing off Land put In grape vines has to be cultivated many years without being sown to grassE F BOURNE In Live Stock Journal |