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Let it be so; we can spare the poor wines, and those who 

 make them; their loss will be our gain. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



I have come to the end of my task. That it can, at the 

 best, be but imperfectly performed, treating of such an 

 industry in a necessarily condensed form, no one knows 

 better than myself. We have an immense field before 

 us, where there is yet room for millions of willing and 

 intelligent heads and hands. With the high price of 

 labor now paid (one dollar per day and board is about the 

 average), thousands of intelligent, industrious laborers 

 can find lucrative employment, and no one who is sober 

 and industrious need fear but he can make a living here. 

 The many vineyards planted by capitalists as a good 

 investment of their money, when they come into bearing, 

 will need the supervision of skilful men, and there will 

 be in a few years a great field for intelligent men, more 

 so even than there is now, and all such should be wel- 

 comed as desirable acquisitions. We have a State Board 

 of Viticulture, created by act of Legislature, with an 

 appropriation of ten thousand dollars, annually, who have 

 already collected and distributed much valuable informa- 

 tion, held two annual conventions of grape growers, and 

 exhibitions of viticultural products, and who could accom- 

 plish still more good, did its presiding officers freely 

 tolerate diiferent views from their own and en courage the 

 full and free expression of the opinions and experience of 

 all practical men. 



The Agricultural Department of our State University, 

 under the able management of Prof. Hilgard, has already 

 rendered efficient aid, by analyses of soil, experiments in 

 fermentation, researches in regard to Phylloxera, and 

 resistant stocks, lectures and reports, etc., and could do 

 still more, were its means sufficient to do all the faculty 

 would like to accomplish. 



