Show BAGGING GRAPES GRAPE A good way to grow extra fancy grapes for ho meuse oi or for exhibition purposes Is to tic alo up the bunches in paper lags bags the bags protect the fruit from the elements during the summer bummer moreover the bags afford protection against ane depredations of birds insects and even fungous diseases according to the nebraska agricultural colle college 90 because of the warmth afforded uy the bags the bagged grapes ripen a little earlier and are better flavored than the grapes bagg ad grapes do not seem beem to become overripe as quickly as do the grapes this is an advant age in that the season during which biresh grapes may be used Is pro longed about ten days the late varieties like the concord may bo be allowed to remain on the vines until arter after the first light frosts for bagging grapes the 1 12 1 2 and 2 pound hantla bags used by grocers are very satisfactory in putting the bag in place the top is pinned above the lateral shoot from which the bunch hangs it must not be fastened about the small stem of the cluster as the wind Is very likely to break the steni stem |