Show by high school agricultural class recently one of our local business busin cis men received an order for a few hundred pounds of grapes but after scouring the valley valle he was unable to find even one hundred pounds of of marketable quality A deplorable plo rable condition indeed for a district that yields so abundantly too abundantly for all our trees and vines tend to overbear and set too much fruit resulting in a cr oded condition of small undeveloped fruit the average grape vine ine in this val tal le lev is smothered with ith stems of dust clust et ars 9 bunches with ith a few berries clinging lono niely here and there or possibly a great number of ur ier small dusters lusters ridiculously email even though compact and so intertwined with old cane they I 1 cant b picked licked without crushing none of these would paa pa c en their tran trans por tation to a it markit much less re tain a profit in contrast to the taft c straggly trag gl bun e ches hes common here the agriculture jam class last Thurs thursday da saw smooth compact symmetrical tapering bun ches of large bemes berries weighing se sm deml pounds s maplet ample 4 of which are now nou on exhibit at the grand count fair mr snider who mho raised them had care carefully full bated for and pruned the vine keeping it in oung vig orous condition the e agriculture class is 13 no now thor hughly convinced that care training and pruning of grape vines pays big dividends in fact is the basis for any profit at all for unmarketable fruit is iq a total los lo 1 s while hilo grapes such as mr snyder produced this year would mould bring top price ii I i an on market if properly packed compare our own grape grapes at home with the magnificent clu cluster aters on ex I 1 1 hibit at our fair and note the dif ference in quality of fruit from vines cared for and thoe vines allowed I 1 to grow as the in a tto tropical forest |