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St. George's Jig. Society. — The Grape and Strawberry. Vol. VII. 



BUTTER. 



To Mrs. M. B. Polk, for the best fresh 

 butter, butter-bowl. 



On the 10th of November the Society 

 met — elected its officers for the ensuing 

 year, and held the ploughing match, which 

 was postponed for that day. The following 

 is the repoit of the committee, appointed to 

 decide the merits of the different ploughs 

 entered for the premium, viz: 



The undersigned committee, appointed to 

 award the premiums offered at the plough- 

 ing match, which took place this day, — re- 

 port, that the following ploughs were en- 

 tered, viz : 



1st. Beach's Concave, No. 10, owned by 

 Levi Ryan, — ploughman, Charles Carter. 



2nd. Prouty's Centre-draught, No. 5, owned 

 by Major John Jones, — ploughman, Richard 

 Cochran. 



3d. Beach's Concave, No. 9, owned by 

 John Whitlock, — ploughman, William E 

 Riggs. 



4th. Prouty's Centre-draught, No. 5, own 

 er and ploughman, A. Snow Naudain. 



The Committee feel great hesitation in 

 awarding the premium to any one of the 

 ploughs — the work of all having been so 

 well done. Two of the undersigned think, 

 however, the Beach's Concave, No. 9, owned 

 by John Whitlock, and worked by William 

 E. Riirgs, has rather the preference for su- 

 periority of work, and therefore award it to 

 this plough. The last named of the under- 

 signed, dissents from his colleagues ; being 

 of opinion, that for neatness and precision of 

 work, the Beach's Concave, No. 10, owned 

 by Levi Ryan, and worked by Charles Car- 

 ter, is entitled to a slight preference over its 

 competitors. In justice to the Centre-draught 

 ploughs, the committee are free to say, that 

 they could not, in this instance, receive a 

 fair trial, — as the proper working of them, 

 constructed as they are, to run with wheels, 

 requires more practical experience on the 

 part of the ploughman, than either of the 

 gentlemen who worked them had the ad- 

 vantage of. Besides, the alleged superior 

 lightness of draught of these ploughs, could 

 not be ascertained in the absence of that im- 

 portant instrument, the Dynamometer. 



R. Mansfield, } 



B. Caulk, > Committee. 



D. Corbit, ) 



December 28th, 1842. 



Never despaif, never be idle, never stop 

 trying. Resolution, energy, spirit and cou- 

 rage have fed many a family in times past, 

 and will do it again in times future. 



From the American Agriculturist. 

 The Grape and Strawberry. 



Cincinnati, Sept. 30th, 1842. 



Gentlemen, — The vintage is over, and 

 the expectations we formed in the spring 

 have not been realized, from the rot among 

 our grapes. The season has been cold and 

 wet, and I did not anticipate a rich must; 

 but in this respect have been agreeably dis- 

 appointed. The juice is as rich as at any 

 preceding vintage. I have thirteen vine- 

 yards, and more under way. The greatest 

 yield in the county, is at the vineyard man- 

 aged by Mr. Mottier, who is well known as 

 an intelligent, enterprising vine dresser. He 

 made within a fraction of 1500 gallons. A 

 part of the vineyard that did not suffer by 

 rot, yielded 600 gallons to the acre. The 

 next vineyard in its yield, is under the 

 charge of Mr. Myers, an intelligent Ger- 

 man, of much experience in the cultivation 

 of the vine, and its manufacture into wine. 

 There were some vineyards in the county 

 that produced a more abundant crop, on the 

 same quality of ground, than even Mother's. 

 Mr. Hackinger had the finest crop I have 

 ever seen. The crop of Mr. Reser, was 

 also very abundant. I have been informed, 

 that several other vineyards in our county 

 were but little injured. The vine culture 

 is yearly increasing with us, and the day is 

 not distant, when the Ohio hills, between 

 the two Miamies, will rival the same extent 

 on the Rhine. For this, we shall be chiefly 

 indebted to our German emigrants; and they 

 are gratified in stating, that we can rival the 

 wines of their own country. The Catawba 

 is destined to make a dry wine, equal to 

 Hock ; and one of my German tenants, 

 Mr. Lock, has made a sparkling wine from 

 it, equal to the best Champaign. But we 

 must not expect to succeed at first. The 

 process of fermentation and manufacture of 

 wine, requires both experience and skill, and 

 we shall not, for years, equal the wine coop- 

 ers of Europe in its manufacture. The dry 

 Hock wines require but little experience and 

 skill, but this is not true in respect to many 

 of their finest, wines. I propose this fall, to 

 send samples of my wines to the Horticul- 

 tural Societies of our principal cities, in the 

 hope that it may tend to increase the culture 

 of the grape. 



You might benefit some of your readers 

 by drawing their attention to the proper 

 cultivation of the strawberry. In a late 

 number of Hovey's Magazine, I discover 

 that .Mr. Allen, of Winchester, Virginia, 

 takes exceptions to a remark of mine, that 

 I have never met with an English gardener 

 who understood the cultivation of the straw- 



