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Tineyai'd consists of 360 vines of the Concord and Delaware, 

 from which he shipped 4,500 lbs. Raspberries of the Doolittlo 

 Tariety, raised 40 bushels. Net proceeds: Peaches, 1650; 

 grapes, $100 ; raspberries, $70 ; total, $820. 



E. A. Treadway has 15 acres under cultivation, whicli three 

 years ago were covered with forest trees and underbrush. He 

 has 100 bearing peach trees, which produced 60 baskets. His 

 vineyard consists of 500 young vines, from which he gathend 

 3,000 lbs., or one and a half tons of grapes ; also, 10 bushels 

 of Black-cap raspberries, and 10 bushels of Red-cap raspber- 

 ries. Net proceeds: Peaches, $15; grapes, $75; black rasp- 

 berries, $50; red raspberries, $30; total, $170. 



Martin Walsh, 111 peach trees, from which he shipped 1,000 

 baskets of peaches, and from his little vineyard he had the 

 most remarkable yield on record. He has 63 rows of the 

 Concord, 23 vines in a row, in all 1,426 viu'^s, from which he 

 shipped '280,550 lbs. of grapes, or fourteen tons five hundred 

 and fifty pounds, for which he realized three cents per lb., 

 net, or $841 65 off two acres and 36 rods. Mr. Walsh also 

 reports 10 bushels Siberian crab apples, 10 t)ushels raspberries, 

 20 bushels blackberries. The net- procet-ds of a crop grown on 

 a little over two acres of ground, as follows: Peacht^s, $500; 

 grapes, $856 50; Siberian apples, $20; raspberries, $30 ; black- 

 berries, $150 ; total, $1,550 50. 



Chas. Allen's young vineyard and orchard of five acres pro- 

 duced as follows : Of grapes, 7,900 lbs., or near four tons, from 

 700 Concord vines; one acre of strawberries, half of which 

 produced 25 bushels ; and 28 bushels raspberries. Mr. Allen 

 has lOOyouug peach trees, and two hundred apple trees begin- 

 ning to bear, and 100 pears. Net proceeds: Grapes, $632; 

 strawberries, $180; raspberries, $84; total, $896. 



H. G. Smith reports having shipped 789 baskets of peaches, 

 200 grape boxes, 110 bushels of apples. Net proceeds, $497 07. 



T. D. Denison reports having raised from 100 young peach 

 trees 600 baskets. In his vineyard he has 200 vines, from 

 which he gathered 2,000 lbs. Net proceeds: Peaches, $360 ; 

 grapes, $80 ; total, $440. 



