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The Gh-ape Culturist. 



Michel & Kern, who had, doubtless, 

 the very finest display in the floral de- 

 partment to withdraw from competition 

 before the awards were made. In na- 

 tive wines, IMessrs. Bush & Co. had the 

 largest and best collection, and were 

 awarded several premiums. The Amer- 

 ican Wine Company took the first pre- 

 miums for sparklinii' wines, while the 



Pleasant \'alley Wine Company (Bush 

 & Co., agents.) obtained the second 

 premium for same. Messrs. Poeschel 

 & Scherer, of Ilermanu, Mo., also took 

 several premiums for still wines. In 

 our next number we will give a de- 

 tailed list of the premiums awarded, if 

 we can obtain it from the Secretary, 

 of which we have no doubt. 



THK IJKSULTS OF THE GEAPE CROP AT BLUFFTON. 



The vi)itage is at last over, and we 

 have found leisure time enough to sum 

 up results and draw conclusions, which 

 Ave will ti*y to give to our readers in a 

 condensed form. 



We had 27^ acres in bearing this sea- 

 son, of which 17 may be called estab- 

 lished and bearing a full croj), lOj acres 

 liearing their first, and thus only a par- 

 tial, crop. Of these, about 12 acres are 

 located in the river bottom, Xb'k on the 

 bluffs. The latter were twice struck 

 by hail, and the Concords also severe- 

 ly touched by frost in April, by which 

 the crop was diminished at least one- 

 third, while the bottom vineyards es- 

 caped both hail and frost. The vari- 

 eties were divided about as follows: 



Nortons, 11 acres, in full hearing, 

 2 bearing first crop, 70,000 pounds. 



Concord, acres, 5 in full bearing, 

 4 bearing first crop, 50,148 pounds. 



Goethe, 2 acres, bearing first crop, 

 0,366 pounds. 



Creveling, 1 acre, bearing first crop, 

 420 pounds. 



Delaware, 1 acre, ] in full ncaring, 

 I bearing first crop, 477 pounds. 



Clinton, I acre, in full bearing, 

 1,234 pounds. 



Ives, \ acre, in full bearing, 3,ol6 



: pound.s. 



Taylor, 1 acre, in full bearing, 602 



I pounds. 



i Herbemont, 1 acre, in full bearing, 



; 489 pounds. 



j Telegraph, h acre, in full bearing, 



; 798 pound.'j. 



Hartford, i acre, in lull bearing, 



i 1,615 pounds. 



(^ther varieties, 2 acres, 1 in fall 

 bearing, 1 bearing first crop, 3,050 



' pounds. 



i Total, 27] acres, 17 in full bearing, 



I lOJ bearing first crop, 137,715 pounds ; 



, or an average of about 5,000 pounds 

 to the acre. 



This does not include the amount 

 consumed on the place, taken to e.v- 



I hibitions, etc., which may safely be 

 put down at several thousand pounds 

 more, so that the crop has been over 

 140,000 pounds. Of these, about 125,- 

 000 pounds were made into wine by 

 the company-, the balance being used 

 by the tenants for wine, marketed, etc. 

 If we take into account the vicissi- 

 tudes mentioned before, which dimin- 

 ished the crop on the hills to a con- 

 siderable extent, the manifold ravages 



