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whole field ; pulled, topped, trimmed and weighed, finding 278 

 pounds to the square rod, making 370 1 bushels on the half acre, 

 and being at the rate of 741^ bushels per acre. 



Statement of Ichahod Chandler. 

 Crop of 1866, grass, no manure. Crop of 1867, milloi;. 

 Ploughed June 15, without manure ; soil a sandy loam ; har- 

 vest, about half a crop of millet. 1868, May 15, applied eight 

 cords of green manure, made from cows and horses, worth i4 

 per cord, making a value of manure of $32. Hauling the same, 

 $3.50 ; ploughing. May 18, $2.50 ; harrowing. May 18 and 27, 

 $1 ; June 8 and 19, $1.25 ; planting by hand, June 20, $3. 

 As soon as up, hoed'with shuffle-hoe, $3. Ten days' later, hoed 

 with common hoe, $6 ; thinning and transplanting, $3 ; har- 

 vesting, $18. Planted in rows eighteen inches apart, distance 

 in rows about one foot. Thus making the whole expense on 

 field $73.25, or nearly nineteen cents per bushel. 



John H. Bourne, Chairman. 



DOMESTIC WINES. 



HAMPSHIRE. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



"Wine — what is it, and of what "elements is it composed ? 

 Wine, in the common acceptation of the term, is the fermented 

 juice of the grape. Its final elements consist of water, alcohol, 

 and a small percentage of acid, and an odoriferous principle, or 

 aroma, also, unfermented sugar, a coloring principle, and some- 

 times a proportion of tannin. Foreign wines, when they reach 

 us free from adulteration, are the purest and best. But we 

 seldom obtain them in a pure state. Going through the hands 

 of the producer, the importer, and the wholesale and retail 

 dealers, by the time they reach the consumer they are usually 

 anything but pure wines. Hence it becomes us, if we can do 

 so, to manufacture our own wines, if we desire a pure article. 

 This can readily be done, not only from our own native grapes, 



