Reports on Grapes. 



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let stand one week, and, friend Hus- 

 mann, that is the best wine. I consulted 

 Husmann in my operations, of course. 

 I had to contend with a great many 

 obstacles — first, I had no cellar, so I 

 could not control the temperature ; 

 then, I had to put the wine in a com- 

 mon room^ in a plank house, tho tem- 

 perature up to 60 and 70° during the 

 day and down to zero at night, but, 

 for all that, I believe I have some good 

 wine, at least it has kept here in the 

 same room, with tho mercury tip to 

 one hundred for a month, without 

 souring in the least. 



I made forty gallons of Concord 

 gallized, twenty gallons petiotized, 

 ten of Clinton, ten of pure Concord, 

 from the ripest grapes, and a speci- 

 men of white wine froin Concord ; 

 also, a sample of mixed grapes. All 

 was a success. Indeed, I was happily 

 disappointed, for I expected a total 

 failure under the circumstances. I 

 am satisfied that I can make wine- 

 making and grape-growing a good 

 business, and I expect to follow it up. 



We need organized capital to suc- 

 ceed. We have no market here for 

 wine, in lact, people do not know 

 anything about Native Wine j they 

 think if the wine does not appear like 

 commercial wine (whisky and log- 

 wood,) that it is no wine at all. The 

 temperance question, too, has a great 

 deal to do with the sale of native 

 wine. I think sometimes that our 

 wine ought to be called by another 

 name, people so abhor the idea of 

 intemperance — whisky, fermented 

 liquors, etc. — as though our glorious 

 native pure wines had any relation to 

 any of them, but this only shows that 

 people can be educated to an error 



and superstition as Avell as to sound 

 philosophy and truth. 



] will try and gather some statis- 

 tics as to the number of acres, num- 

 ber of vines planted, and the amount 

 of wine made in this county this fall. 

 Yours, A. Gove. 



[Thanks for your communication. 

 We are glad to hear of your success 

 in wine-making, and not a little proud 

 that we hear of so many of our old 

 readers who have followed our advice 

 and made good wine. — Editor]. 



Glasgow, Scott Co., Ills., Aug. 22, 1870. 



Mr. Husmann : 



Dear Sir: — Seeing j'our request in 

 the Gra.pe Culturist for all grape 

 growers to give j^ou the No. of vines 

 each one has in cultivation and bear- 

 ing, I thought I would send yon the 

 No. that I have. My grapes are : 

 Concord 104, Delaware 102, lona S2, 

 Israella 21, Ives Seedling 24, Adiron- 

 dac 12, 12 of different No. of Roger's 

 Hybrids. These are ail in their second 

 3^ear of bearing, and I have one hun- 

 dred and eight more that will bear next 

 year for the first time. I have the first 

 named all planted out four and five 

 feet apart in the row, and the rows all 

 six feet apart ; the latter are eight feet 

 apart in the row, and the rows all six 

 feet apart. They are all trained to the 

 single arm and spur of the first, and 

 the others are ready to train on the 

 double arm and spurs. My bearing 

 vines are only carrying about a quarter 

 of a ciop, on account of the late spring 

 frost. There is also a little rot amongst 

 mine. Do you not think it would be 

 better for me to dig out every other 

 vine where they are planted so close ? 

 Would it be better to dig out every 



