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SIMILKAMEEN WINE.Viticulture in the Valley a Promising Enterprise.irai\\n\\Koro-sighted fruit-growers in the I'wSimilkameen, manv of whom are* ’ IRjust now laying out their plots, are j,taking care not to plant too large (i an area in the more perishable fruits, tv Fender and quick-growing varieties such as strawberries and peaches are highly profitable where there is e| a large and reliable market, but pi growers in this district should rath-; ei er choose as staples such kinds astvut;111will bear comparatively long ship- ^e*tlitrInInmment and long keeping. Apples, of course, is the chief of these. There pi are, however, many others that are as safe and profitable and it is not wise to put all your eggs in one basket. iOne line the success of which is entirely independent of prompt shipments and temporary market conditions is the growing of grapes for wine. It is a highly profitable and stcadv business, and one not likelv9 m |to be overdone. Suitable areas for it, too, are strictly limited : for a country that may grow table grapes K to perfection is not always adapted ^ to wine grapes as, for instance, n' the Niagara district and Delaware. VlI £~%These districts, though they pro-dace the fruit in such enormous nlt; quantities that they overload the markets near y every year, never- tf the’ess produce scarcely any wine, 01 but import from Hu rope or Cali- ui fornia.Though this subject has received P litt’e attention compared with other bt branches of fruit growing, all the \ evidence yet to hand goes to show that the fruit belt of B. C. the Kootenay, Okanagan and Similka-d«vimininmeen are particularly well adapt-ed for viticulture. The experiments y conducted on the Richter ranch, while not carried out on a commercial scale, have shown conclusively that the choicest of wine can he produced here, and the yield from the Tokay, Black Hamburg and other grapes is pronounced by connois-seurs tv» be equal to the highest grades ot European wines.Iwo years ago a Herman viticul- ^ turist began growing grapes on some rock-covered land on Crowfor hay, Kootenai lake, just beyond theterminus ot the (treat Northern direct line from the states. Ilis success has been such that grape culture has been taken up h\ another Herman, who is settling a colony at Proctor, where f(X) Hermans will stait grow ing grapes on a commercial scale, with the idea of making the Kootenai wine. The land has been bought and is being cleared.A w riter in the Saturday Sunset says on this subject : IThe vinting of wine will soon be another industry in this province.At Keremeos and other parts of the Interior excellent grapes can he | grown, and an Italian who has been cultivating them for the past two years upon his Kootenay ranchan
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Keremeos Trumpet
Keremeos, British Columbia, CA
Fri, May 01, 1908
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