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shaW; T. Judson, Charles K. Judson, 

 T. L. Harris, L. Oliphant, Clinton S. 

 Far, Henry Sage, T. 8. Moss, Joseph 

 L. Hatch and Hugh Moshier, of Broc- 

 ton,N. Y. 



E. D. Fuller, J. G. Weld, Edward 

 Underhill and Fred. E. Underhill, of 

 Portland, N. Y. 



T. S. Hubbard, A. S. Moss, E. W. 

 Gardner, U. E. Dodge, G. D. Hinck- 

 ley, Ira Porter, W. H. Stevens, D. 

 Fairbanks, O. W. Johnson, W. Mc- 

 Kinstrj, N. C. Carling, John AVatson, 

 Dr. A. Wheelock, AVilliam Risley, J. 

 Parker, J. B. Gardner, S. S. Cris- 

 sej, L. S. Howard, George Nobles, 



L. B. Webster, James Lowell and T. 

 W. Bristol, of Fredonia. 



Edmund Day and ]l. B. Day, of 

 Dunkirk. 



George W. Smith, of New Jersey. 



P. W. Anderson, A. R. Dunning, O. 

 F. Ellis, W. L. Ellis, S. V. Holliday, 

 Edwin Smith, J. M. Strong, John Black- 

 nar, A. Wilson and A. Eaton, of North 

 Springfield, Pa. 



John Blair, D. P. Blair, J. E. Smith, 

 N. Francis, A. Francis, James Silver- 

 thorn, G. W. Dalla, Albin Anderson, 

 John Silverthorn, Charles Pettibone 

 and C. C. Seldeu, of Girard, Pa. 



WINE CELLARS FOR NEW BEGINNEES. 



Thank God, we have a President, 

 and lean talk with you about the wine 

 business, and my experience in it. 

 Although only beginning in the fall 

 of 1867, I think I may have some 

 ideas which are not known to wine- 

 makers generall3\ First, I will tell 

 how I built ray cellar. I dug it four- 

 teen feet deeji, twenty by thirty ; laid 

 up the wall eight feet high ; put on 

 joists two by twelve over them; laid 

 down a rough floor. My wall is 

 brick. A foot wall is strong enough. 

 Then I carried up the wall eight feet, 

 eight inch (a foot would be better), 

 put on my joists, and laid a double 

 floor of rough boards. On top of this 

 I built my wine house, two stories 

 high. My casks are let down inside, 

 through hatchways. The first floor I 

 use for pressing, mashing, etc., etc., 

 running my wine through hose into 

 casks in the upper cellar, Avhich floor 



is stayed by braces about every ten 

 feet, from joist into wall, the braces 

 extending from the wall about five 

 feet, and below the joist about three 

 feet ; then they are out of the way of 

 the casks. I banked my wall up to 

 the sills of the building, or, rather, 

 about three inches above, protecting 

 the wood from decay bj- putting on a 

 coat of hot coal tar. I also tarred the 

 ends of the joists. The object of laying 

 double floor on upper joists is to 

 keep out the cold in winter, and heat 

 in summer. Such a cellar and buildr 

 ing cost about §1,400 complete, in- 

 cluding guttering and i)ainting. The 

 bottom is dry, except at one end; 

 there I dug a small hole for the water. 

 I have to pump it out every other day, 

 which takes from ten to twenty min- 

 utes. I find my two-story cellar vcrj- 

 handy. AVhen I racked off my wine 

 last month, all I had to do was to 



