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Show PROTECTION FOR THE GRAPES Paper Bag Placed Over Fruit Will Keep Away Insects and Birds Insures Choice Clusters. Place a paper bag over each bunch of grapes when the fruit is the size of small shot. This protects the grapes from insect and bird injury, and insures extra choice clusters. Fasten the mouth of the bag closely about each stem with a wire or string. Seedsmen sell wired bags for this purpose. pur-pose. One year one man's bunches of grapes were many of them so large that they eventually burst two-pound bags; since then he has used three-pound three-pound bags; they cost about 35 cents per 100 and may be bought at any seed store. This bagging method is only practicable practi-cable in a small way; large growers depend upon spraying to produce fine clusters. |