454 BRAN OF INDIAN CORN. 



sidered to be the muscle-forming ingredient of animal food. 

 The result of analyses, made since my return home, 

 shows that it contains, in a hundred parts, 



Water. Mineral matter. Muscular matter. 



As taken from the mill, 1475 1-21 13.25 



After drying at 300 Fah., 1-42 15-53 



Like the bran of wheat, therefore, it is rich in muscu 

 lar matter, and should be carefully preserved and given as 

 food. Or it may be profitably used as a manure in 

 circumstances where natural or artificial moisture in the 

 soil enable it to decay with sufficient rapidity to supply 

 the wants of the plant that is intended to be fed by it. 



At dinner, Mr French treated me to a bottle of 

 American wine from the vineyard of Mr Longworth of 

 Cincinnati, on the Ohio, probably the best-known 

 among Transatlantic grape-growers. This was pre 

 pared from tlve Catawba grape, a native variety, and 

 was a species of dry hock, with a peculiar bouquet and 

 flavour. This grape, according to Mr Longworth, pro 

 duces, in the hands of a skilful wine-cooper, hock of all 

 varieties equal to the imported, and champagne of the 

 very first quality. 



Mr Longworth has himself twenty acres in vineyard, 

 under the care of Germans and Swiss ; and the large 

 German population on the Ohio are every year planting 

 new vineyards, so that he states his belief that this river, 

 &quot; in the course of the next century, will be as celebrated 

 for its wine as the Rhine.&quot; The best crop he has seen, 

 was on the vineyard of a neighbour which yielded from 

 the Catawba grape 900 gallons an acre. A fourteenth 

 of an acre, from the best part of one of his own vine 

 yards, yielded at the rate of 1470 gallons an acre. The 

 wine meets a ready sale among the German population, 

 at prices varying from 75 cents to 1^ dollars a gallon. 



Several other native varieties are cultivated, one of 



