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Cost of a vineyard per acre, say $250 ; 



interest per annum, $15,00 



Cost of attending, per acre, G0,00 



Cost of making the wine, 25,00 



Probable average annual product, 200 



gallons, at $1,00 per gallon, 200,00 



Supposed profit per acre, $100,00 



Considerable quantities of the wild grape of Mas- 

 sachusetts are being manufactured into wine. A 

 farmer of Princeton a few days ago informed me that 

 he made G5 barrels of wine during the past year. 

 The number of distilleries at present in Massachusetts 

 is 43. 



The following are the principal distilleries and 

 breweries of New York. 



Messrs. Gogswcll, Crane & Co. have an immense 

 distillery situated in Williamsburgh. The various 

 buildings occupy seventy-five lots of ground in all, 

 valued at 150,000. At this extensive distillery, there 

 are manufactured vast quantities of saleratus, whiskey, 

 alcohol, New England rum, and domestic liquors of 

 all kinds, and the work is done with steam-power, by 

 three engines, from ten to nineteen horse-power, and 



