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foots up the total receipts of the com- 

 pany from its organization to Nov. 

 80th, 1868,.at §110,566.14 



Total Expenditures 108,865.67 



Cash on hand 1,700.47 



Liabilities 9,221.92 



The follo^'ing new Board of Di- 

 rectors was elected at the annual meet- 

 ing Dee. 3d 1868 : 



Geo. Husmann, President, 

 Henry T. Blow, Vice-President, 

 Isidor Bush, Treasurer, 

 Wm. Wesselhoft, Secretary, 

 Wm. B'Oench, Wm. L. Ewi7ig, 

 Henry Eeitemeyer, Conrad Fink, 



Henry Michel, L. D. Morse, 

 Phil. Weigel, H.-T.Mndd, 



Br. B. F. Edwards. 

 Alwin Straubel is the company's pro- 

 pagator at Bluffton. 

 Chs. H. Frings, Superintendent of Cel- 

 lars at St. Louis. 

 Orders for plants and catalogues 

 must be addressed to Wm. "Wesselhoft, 

 Secretary-, Bluffton, Mo. 



Orders for Avines and price-lists 

 thereof to 



IsiDOR Bush, 



Treasurer, 

 No. 22 S Main street, St. Louis, Mo. 



THE IMPORTANCE OF ASSOCIATION FOR GRAPE GROWERS. 



"We publish above the condensed 

 statistical report of the Bluffton Wine 

 Co. and hope that the secretaries or 

 officers of similar associations will ob- 

 lige us by furnishing their reports also. 



"We have long ago become convinc- 

 ed, that associations of our grape grow- 

 ers can do much more in bringing 

 American Grape Culture to that per- 

 fection, and give it that importance, 

 which it properly deserves. ''In Union 

 is strength." It is much easier for 5, 

 10, or more grape growers, to build a 

 cellar in common, to treat their wines 

 in a thorough and scientific manner, 

 under the supervision of a skilful man, 

 and afterwards to market them, than 

 it is for a single individual, however 

 skilful and enterprising he may be. 



They can also assist each other in 

 preparing the soil, can buy the suit- 



able plants, teams, etc. in common. — 

 In short, the expenses will at least be 

 lessened one half, and the profits will 

 be greater, because they can furnish 

 wine of better quality, can afford to 

 send out agents to sell them, and can 

 thus realize better prices. They can 

 always more readily command the 

 best help, if wanted ; in short, the ad- 

 vantages are innumerable, and will at 

 once suggest themselves to every 

 thinking mind. We have all the na- 

 tural facilities for becoming the first 

 among the grape growing nations; we 

 must and will exi^ort our wines at no 

 very distant day ; but we must not be 

 content each to plod along in his own 

 small way J we must strain every 

 nerve, use every advantage in our 

 power ; and this can only be done, if 

 we unite to make our country what it 



