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the ground. The alternate Oportos not grafted remained 

 exempt from the insects and mildew rot. The Concords 

 suffer but little from mildew rot ; but the ^^ Greeley 

 rot " does not spare it, or any other kind of grapes. 

 It seems to be ^' no respecter of persons/' where grapes 

 are the persons. 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



GRAPE-GROWING AND WINE-MAKING ON LAKE KEUKA, OR 

 CROOKED LAKE, STEUBEN CO., N. Y. 



BY THE AUTHOR. 



On a flying trip made last fall to the famous grape 

 region on what was formerly called Crooked Lake, a 

 name which the residents have since changed to Lake 

 Keuka, I gathered a few items of interest, convincing 

 me that there is indeed a great opening here, and I will 

 give my readers such notes as a hasty visit of hardly two 

 days enabled me to take. I regret that the superintend- 

 ents of the leading wine companies (the Pleasant Valley 

 and Urban a) did not furnish me with fuller data. 



There are about 6,000 acres of grapes on the shores of 

 the lake, but the chief vineyards are between Pultney 

 and Hammondsport — a distance of about 9 miles, which 

 is an almost uninterrupted vineyard. There is quite a 

 large cellar at Pultney, where 1 did not find time to stop. 

 A few miles above Hammondsport are the cellars of 

 the Urbana Wine Co., an imposing stone structure of 

 three stories above the vaults, and 56 feet wide by 100 

 feet long, to which have since been added 2 wings, 4 

 stories in hight, of 40 by 80 feet, thus doubling their 

 capacity. I suppose they could conveniently store and 

 manufacture 400,000 gallons of wine, outside of the 



