Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1890 — The Sugar of the Grape. [ARTICLE]

The Sugar of the Grape.

The sugar of the grape is produced in the leaves. Toward the end of summer the older leaves diminish in activity and only the younger leaves make sugar. Leaves some distance beyond the fruit may produce sugar for it, and also leaves on lateral shoots springing from the fruit-bearing,) branch, but only when these shoots are close to or above fruit, Pruning by cutting off the ends of the fruit--bearing branches was found to be injurious, .at least In the locality wjjto these experiments were made. Byxoo close pruning in this respect fruit was produced with 4 to 5 per cent less sugar than without any pruning at all —Dr. H. Mueller. People who are easy to oonvert are generally the first to desert.—Milwau* kee Journal.