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crease of cost for yearly cultivation, arising from the 

 particular mode of laying-out the vineyard. This in- 

 crease will be about forty-eight cents for the two winter 

 plowings, and one dollar and sixty cents for the sum- 

 mer plowings. 



The yearly cost of matting, per acre, will then be : 



Mats $17 20 



Sheds for storing the mats I 30 



Manual labor 12 60 



Increase of cost for cultivation of soil 2 08 



Total $33 18 



This is certainly a heavy expenditure, but capital so 

 invested will often give very handsome profits. Nev- 

 ertheless, let us inquire what are the descriptions of 

 vineyards in which the use of matting will be really 

 useful. 



In the Cote-d'Or region, good vineyards of "Pinots" 

 yield an average crop of one hundred and fifty-eight 

 gallons per acre, which, at one dollar and twenty cents 

 the gallon, gives one hundred and eighty-nine dollars 

 and sixty cents. Losses arising from frost and blight 

 are set down at the value of two crops and a half in 

 ten years, or four hundred and seventy-two dollars that 

 is to say, forty-seven dollars and twenty cents a year. 

 The matting only costing about thirty-three dollars, 

 there would be, in using it, a saving of fourteen dollars 

 and twenty cents per acre, yearly. 



In the same region, the Gamais, when well culti- 

 vated, will yield, on an average, six hundred and thirty- 

 three gallons to the acre, which, at twenty-three cents, 

 would make one hundred and forty-five dollars and sixty 



cents. Failures of two and a half crops in ten years, 

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