State Agricultural Society. 



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sold with profit. We then have the following showing of the product 

 of twent}- thousand acres of land, viz: 



From wine 



From brandy 



From sale of grapes 



Total 



$1,800,000 

 300,000 

 600,000 



82,700,000 



Or one hundred and thirty dollars per acre. From this may be deducted 

 cost of cultivation, expense of making wine and brandy, and marketing 

 crop, say thirty -five dollars per acre, and we have a net protit of one 

 hundred dollars per acre. 



From report of Chief of Bureau of Statistics we take the following 

 statistics of imports for twelve months ending June thirtieth, eighteen 

 hundred and seventy : 



Spirits and cordials in casks, proof gals 1,052,196 



Spirits and cordials in bottles, doz ! 45,856 



Wine in casks, gals 0,048,013 



Wine in bottles, doz j 520,623 



Total. 



81,583,008 



203,148 



3,214,598 



2,586,316 



$7,587,070 



From these few facts that we have been aide to collect the thinking- 

 mind cannot fail of the conclusion that the great future of this State 

 rests in her wine producing soils. From the increased amount and 

 improved demand for our wine for- the last live years, we hazard the 

 assertion that in ten years the wine interest of California will over- 

 shadow either of the other principal staples of this State. 



GEOBGE JOHNSTON, 



G. W. APPLEGATE, 



I. N. HOAG, 



L. E. CHAMBEEEAIN, 



S. E. WILSON, 



J. CLAYTON. 



EEPOET ON WINE MAKING AND PEESEEVING. 



In my first report I mentioned that casks containing light dry wines 

 should be full always, and I will only add some further explanation so 

 that beginners may understand it more fully. 



Casks, which under all circumstances must be clean and sweet, when 

 first filled with wine juice or must cannot be kept full without loss, 

 which should not be, especially if fermentation sets in at once as is the 

 case in warm weather. 



The running over, if it were only oxj'dated ferment without loss of 



