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GRAPE CULTURE AND WINE-MAKING. 



nexed table shows, according to manifold experience, allowing, at 

 tlie same time, the highest figure for all expenses and the lowest 

 for their produce, and remembering that an industrious man may 

 save the most of the former bj the aid of his family : 



In the foregoing calculation we have purposely omitted the in- 

 creasing value of the timber and fruits, as well as seeds of the 

 trees. What other culture could be able to show such lasting 

 and geometrically increasing gains? If each farm and hamlet 

 only would dedicate 3 " tagwerks" to the culture of the silk- 

 worm, it might result in an increase of several millions to the 

 home production, and consequently to the national riches. 



In order to show the case even in its most minute relation, let 

 us suppose that a father plants, at the birth of his child, a 6-ycars- 



