rO ESSEX SOCIETY. 



statements would have been omitted, which I have deemed 

 important. 



There is a rehictance among most farmers to write a report of 

 their farming operations, for the reason that they know not 

 where to begin, or where to end. I must confess that I have 

 felt a difficulty of this kind to some extent, and I would re- 

 spectfully suggest that a system of questions on farming be pre- 

 pared, similar in character to those of the New York State 

 Agricultural Society, for the benefit of persons hereafter apply- 

 ing for the Society's premium. 



Bradford, Nov. 14, 1851. 



The Grape Culture. 



The committee propose to make some remarks on the culti- 

 vation of the grape in this county. They will commence by 

 stating as their deep conviction, that an enlightened regard to 

 the prosperity, health, enjoyment and morals of the commu- 

 nity, would lead to an increased attention to the cultivation of 

 fruit ; and when the observation is true in regard to fruit gen- 

 erally, it is specially and emphatically so in regard to the 

 grape. For 



1. The soil regarded chemically, is known to possess to a 

 great extent, and a rich degree, the elements which are re- 

 quired to give a vigorous and healthful growth, both to the 

 wood and fruit of the vine. It is also believed there is quite 

 as great an extent of territory adapted to the culture of this, as 

 to that of any other produce. This adaptation of soil to grape 

 culture, made manifest by its chemical constituents, is still more 

 forcibly impressed upon us by the fact that the vine springs 

 up, grows rapidly, and produces abundantly in every part of 

 the county, in spite of all the violences that are in one form or 

 other practised upon it. It is doubtful whether there is a farmer, 

 we might almost say a gardener, who, if he would suffer the 

 vines to live and grow, that spring up of their own accord, 

 would not in a very few years have an abundant supply of this 

 delicious and highly valuable fruit. 



