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Ohio Vineyards. — Frye's Lactometer. 



Vol. VIIL 



ground in a mill with vertical stones, and 

 then passed through sieves of different sizes. 

 What remains above, is always better than 

 what goes through." 



The manufacture of madder roots appears 

 to be a very formidable operation, yet when 

 reduced to practice, I suspect most of the 

 difficulties so apparent in description, would 

 vanish. Wm. Partridge. 



Ohio Vineyards. 



Our readers are, perhaps, not generally aware of 

 the extent to which the grape is cultivated in the vi- 

 cinity of Cincinnati, Ohio. N. Longworth, of that 

 place, has for several years, been a large and success- 

 ful grower of this fruit. The following account from 

 a Cincinnati paper, of another plantation, will be 

 read with interest. — Ed. 



" We lately visited the vineyards and or- 

 chards of Mr. John E. Mottier, at Delhi 

 township, four miles below the city. His 

 place comprises about eighty acres, and is 

 situated on one of the numerous beautiful, 

 breezy hills, that skirt the Ohio above and 

 below the city. Mr. Mottier has paid par- 

 ticular attention to the culture of clioice 

 fruits, particularly the grape. He has six 

 acres wholly devoted to grape vines, and a 

 more beautiful sight of the kind never met 

 our eye. The vines are planted out in hills, 

 in rows, the roots being three feet distant 

 from each other, and the rows six feet apart. 

 The vines in one vineyard are thirteen years 

 old, and in another only four. They are 

 trained to posts seven and a half feet high, 

 and intertwined from hill to hill. He finds 

 locust posts most durable, and when firmly 

 set in the ground, they will support the 

 enormous crop of grapes and last for many 

 years without resetting. 



"Mr. Mottier cultivates none but Ameri- 

 can varieties which are hardy, and of course 

 need no protection in the winter. He runs 

 a plough or cultivator between the rows 

 once or twice during the season, to keep 

 the weeds down and the earth light and in 

 good order. 



"The vineyard was commenced in 1829, 

 and the vines began to yield fair returns in 

 two and three years, and during the whole 

 period he has lost but a single crop from the 

 effect of frost, drought, or any other cause. 

 He finds a northern exposure preferable to 

 a southern, the vines on the latter sometimes 

 suffering partially from spring frosts, but 

 never in a northern. The Swiss vine-dress- 

 ers tell us, that in Switzerland and Germa- 

 ny, if they save the crops of three years out 

 of five, they think they do well. 



"About fifteen hundred gallons of wine 



were made last year, for which he finds 

 ready sale, at one dollar a jgallon. The Ca- 

 tawba affords a white wine, in good repute 

 with connoisseurs, resembling Rhenish: the 

 Cape grape makes a red wine, more like 

 Burgundy. His vines this year, are in a 

 very promising state, and should nothing 

 untoward occur, he thinks will yield him 

 from two to four hundred gallons of wine 

 to the acre. 



" Mr. Mottier is also largely engaged in 

 the culture of strawberries, and sold last 

 summer, about five thousand quarts. 



"We noticed, also, a small cluster of the 

 common and Spanish chesnut. Of the 

 former, he has many two years old, from 

 the seed planted by himself— also, pecan-nut 

 trees, basket and golden willow — used in 

 training his grape vines — cedars from the 

 seed, altheas, roses, and a variety of orna- 

 mental young trees and shrubbery. 



"There are, besides this, some half dozen 

 other similar vineyards crowning the hills 

 about the city, and those of our citizens who 

 have not looked into the matter, will be sur- 

 prised at the amount of American wine 

 made here; and the preparations for extend- 

 ing the business, chiefly by Germans from 

 the valley of the Rhine." 



To Extract Oil or other Grease. — 



Take some common magnesia — not the cal- 

 cined, but that which is made into small 

 squares — scrape off a portion, and rub it 

 with your finger on the grease-spot. Let it 

 rest half an hour, then brush it lightly off 

 and rub on some fresh magnesia. Repeat 

 this several times till the grease disappears 

 entirely. It is best to rub the magnesia on 

 the wrong side of the article. 



Frye's Lactometer. 



On our 10th page, three months ago, we stated that 

 the Agricultural Board of the American Institute, had 

 appointed a committee to pursue measures preventive 

 of the impositions sometimes practised in watering^ 

 milk, and that an instrument might probably be made, 

 by which the quality of milk may be tested with very- 

 considerable accuracy. The following letter is taken 

 from the American Agriculturist of fast month— it 

 shows the carrying out of the plan above suggested. 

 The article may be cheaply made, and we think vi'ill 

 be interesting to farmers in testing the milk of their 

 dairies altogether, as well as in comparing that of dif- 

 ferent cows.— Ed. 



This cheap, simple, and readily-applied 

 instrument, cannot fail to be of great utility 

 to all persons who purchase, or are con- 

 cerned any way in the use of milk. It will 

 enable the farmer to determine the quality 



