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than make up for it. It is much easier to make a start, 

 labor is cheaper, vines are lower, and all the material we 

 use, as well as the land, is lower, and it will be safe to 

 assume that it will not cost half as much to obtain a 

 start now as then. 



We will have to work early and late, however, with 

 head and hands, for it is not an easy task upon which the 

 grape-grower enters. It is not the life of a sluggard, nor 

 the romantic idyl of poetic leisure. But what of that ? 

 Our task is the production of one of God's noblest gifts 

 to man, and we will follow it with hopeful hearts, in the 

 confidence that He will send His sunshine as well as His 

 showers, to gladden our hearts and to further our work, 

 until it is crowned by a rich harvest of purple and golden 

 clusters, and their juice is changed into " Wine that 

 maketh glad the heart of man." 



