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year is at least one-half gallon less, owing to apples being too ripe. All 

 of said cider has been put in 4o-gal]on iron-bound casks, and put in hot, 

 or "canned," as we call it, to keep from fomenting; it will remain 

 without fomenting until opened. 



Peaches, there were none ; the few young trees that lived are full of 

 fruit-buds and very forward, waiting for old Boreas to blast our hopes. 



Of Cherries we had but few ; our dependence is on the Early May, 

 and they were nearly a failure. 



Plums. — I saw but a few grown in this county. The Chickasaw 

 grown by Mr. H. Thompson, of Adams county, were as perfect as were 

 ever grown. They were beauties. He says " curculio-proof." 



Pears. — I would not recommend the cultivation of pears unless a 

 man has money he wants to squander. 



Blackberries were a failure this year. The following are recom- 

 mended for early and late : Kittatinny early ; Snyder and Lawton for 

 late. Some are cultivating the Taylor, and think it will prove the best 

 of all. 



Raspberries were very fair for so dry a summer. 



Miami and Doolittle stand at the head of Black-caps. 



We have a seedling grown in Hamilton, this county, by Mr. Carrier, 

 that is worthy of mention; it is very hardy, an upright grower, needs no 

 trellis, fruit large, and bears equally with Cluster. 



In Red-caps the Turner stands first for a lazy man's berry. 



Currants the last season were not plenty ; our favorites are Red 

 Dutch and Cherry ; the latter wants rich land and good cultivation and 

 to be well cut back. 



Strawberries were a short crop ; our best are Russel's Prolific and 

 Crescent Seedling. 



Grapes. — Our vineyards were a success as far as the Concords were 

 concerned, and there is no other variety that we can name that would 

 pay to plant. 



I can only speak of a i^w vineyards out of the many : Brow Brothers 

 gathered and made into wine from ten acres of Concords 4,000 gallons. 

 The first mash is white wine, the lees are then put in tub, left to ferment, 

 say from four to eight days, and when pressed make red wine. The 

 Americans and Germans run the white wine, then put the lees in tubs and 

 as much water as they have taken juice, and sugar enough to make by 

 fermentation a red wine, which they sell for some ten cents less per 

 gallon than the white. The Brows have sold theirs at forty-five cents 

 per gallon, making to the acre $180. Next year they will have fifteen 

 acres and in 1881 twenty-two acres. Four hundred gallons to the acre, 

 they say, is not a large yield ; those that add water and sugar make much 

 more — some say 1,000 gallons. I was in hopes that I could give the 

 acres in Concord grapes in this county, but find it too large a task, and 

 will leave it to the census man. 



Our garden vegetables ought to share in our attention with fruits. 

 One-half our living, nay, I might say more, comes by way of vegetables, 



