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TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



Eighth year, 675 vines, 360 gals 8144 00 



Second quality, 180 gals 36 00 



Ninth year, the same. 

 Tenth year, the same. 



"Whole produce for eight years from one aero 

 Difference in favor of close plantation 



8180 00 

 180 00 

 180 00 



8918 80 



8748 20 



This is a considerable difference in the income of a man who has a 

 vineyard of one hundred acres. But the reader will see still another 

 advantage in the close plantation, namely, that the income is a great 

 deal more in proportion in the first, second, third, and fourth years, than 

 in the eight feet plantation, where the income onlj- increases towards the 

 end of the calculation. And for a new beginner, it makes a great differ- 

 ence whether he gets, per acre, in the first three years, thirty-seven dol- 

 lars, or onl^^ eight dollars and forty cents; in the four j'cars one hundred 

 dollars, or only twenty-five dollars, and so on. 



But I am told that the cultivation with hand labor costs so much more. 

 This is erroneous. First, vines four feet apart can be cultivated with 

 horses and ploughs more easily than corn or potatoes; second, even if 

 persons would wish to cultivate Avith hand labor, the cost is not more. 

 Annexed is the expense of the Buena Yista Yinicultural Society", for one 

 hundred acres of vine^-ard planted eight feet apart; however, at that 

 time grain was three cents per pound : 



Six horses, grain for six months, fifteen pounds per day each, 



three cents per pound 



Twelve tons hay for six months 



Pasture and ha}' for six months , 



Three Chinamen drivers, workingsix months , 



One man the balance of the year 



Hoeing and suckering 



Pruning, etc. 



8486 

 240 

 124 

 468 

 157 

 125 

 300 



Total 81,900 



The society made layers during the winter of eighteen hundred and 

 sixtv-five in its old vinevards. brinirinir the vines from eiuiit feet to four 

 feet, the layers being bent from the old vine into a ditch dug in the ground 

 close to the vine, and brought out four feet from the old stem. Of course, 

 for the first year, the vine remains attached to the main vine, conse- 

 quently'' cannot be ploughed. The cost of one hundred acres of vine- 

 yard of this description was as follows : 



