442 . REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE 



STATEMENT OF THE SPRING LAKE VINEYARDS AND 



ORCHARDS. 



The enterprising people of Spring Lake have appointed a 

 committee to prepare a concise and correct statement for the 

 State Pomological Society, of the yield of fruit in and about 

 Spring Lake this year. The largest vineyard is that of Hun- 

 ter Savidge, Esq., which contains 2,000 vines. Three vine- 

 yards have each produced fifteen tons of grapes, mostly Con- 

 cords. The aggregate amount of grapes raised in the vicinity 

 of Spring Lake this year, will reach 140 tons. There were 

 18,000 baskets of peaches shipped this fall. The Horticul- 

 tural Society of Spring Lake has received a beantiful silver 

 medal and a diploma from the State Agricultural Society of 

 Wisconsin, for "the very fine exhibition of peaches" exhibited 

 at the State Fair, at Milwaukee, in September. From the 

 local paper of that beautiful fruit section of the State, the 

 Spring Lake Independent, we gather the following statements 

 of the yield of fruits for 1871 : 



Geo. H. Lovell — 4,500 peach trees on 25 acres. Shipments, 

 7,000 baskets; received for same $3,500; grapes, one-half acre, 

 7,000 lbs., or 3^ tons ; netted 3c per lb., $200 ; apples 20 bush- 

 els ; net proceeds, $3,710. 



Charles E. Soule, proprietor of Vineyard Point Orchards, 

 reports 299 bearing peach trees, mostly Early Crawfords, which 

 produced 2,241 baskets; gross sales $1,416.93; cost of bask- 

 ets, freight, etc., $434.93 ; net proceeds $982. Of grapes, Mr. 

 Soule has a large number of vines, all young. From his vine- 

 yards he realized $251.95; proceeds of farm $1,223.65. 



J. B. Soule reports 2,000 peach trees three years old, mostly 

 Early Crawfords, from which he shipped 1,000 baskets. His 



