From the November
1940 issue of The Southern Planter
J.W. Soles of Whiteville, Columbus County, N.C., sold
$365.52 worth of scuppernongs this fall from eight-tenths of an acre to find a
new cash crop from vines which he set six years ago.
He harvested 18,276 pounds of the grapes which he sold for
two cents a pound, or $40 a ton, and says this new enterprise has proved
profitable. For the first two years after planting, Mr. Soles fertilized the
vines with 1,000 pounds per acre of a complete fertilizer; but since that time
he has been to no expense whatever, except for the pruning and harvesting done
with ordinary farm labor.
Other farmers in that section have watched Mr. Soles’
experiment with great interest, since nearly every farm has one or more grape
vines from which new plants may be rooted. Eastern North Carolina has ideal
conditions of soil and climate for the production of scuppernongs, and farmers
who are searching for new sources of cash income to supplement that supplied by
cotton and tobacco may find the answer in Mr. Soles’ results.
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