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Show . Prune Grapes Properly to Secure Finest Fruit "Grapes must be pruned to produce Ihe best fruit." says Prof. Joseph Os-kan.p Os-kan.p of the New York State College of .Agriculture at Ithaca. "This pruning prun-ing is done mainly during the winter; some of Ihe principles involved are that a comparatively few canes of Ihe past summer's growth should be left; that a mature grapevine should not carry more than thirty or forty buds: and that older vines should have their canes spurred near the trunk in order to keep from developing long arms of old wood. "At planting time, and the year afler, afl-er, young grapevines should he cut back to two buds and tied to stakes for support. The second summer each vine should send out a cane long enough to he tied to the top wire of a trellis. This trellis. If a KnilTeu system of training is used, should tiavi two wires, one at a height of live l'eet and the other three feet from the ground. Number nine or ten wire Is generally used and si rung on posts set 'J." feel apart. In the summer afler Ihe third pruning, canes will develop from the one tall trunk left, and all of these should be removed In the winter pruning prun-ing except two at the lop wire and two at the hover wire; these four canes should be tied to the V'iro. to the right ir.nl left at right angles to the upright trunk, and should be cut bad; to four buds each." |