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make a loss of thirty-six dollars and forty cents a year. 

 The matting would, in that case, give a yearly saving 

 of only three dollars and forty cents per acre, for Gam- 

 ais grapes, yielding the gross cash product we have 

 mentioned. 



In Champagne (pernay, Ay) the crop amounts to 

 about one hundred and fifty-eight gallons per acre, and 

 the average selling price is sixty cents per gallon, or 

 about ninety-four dollars and eighty cents for the whole 

 product. In that region > the losses through frosts and 

 blight are set down at the value of three crops in ten 

 years, which makes a yearly loss of twenty-eight dollars 

 and forty cents per acre. In that case, unfortunately, 

 the use of mats would not be profitable. 



The vineyards of Medoc give about two hundred 

 and thirty-three gallons to the acre, and the selling price 

 varies, according to the quality, from seventy cents to 

 two dollars per gallon, or an average of one dollar and 

 thirty-five cents, which makes three hundred and four- 

 teen dollars for the gross product, per acre. The loss 

 arising from frosts and blight is estimated at the value 

 of one and a half crops in ten years, making a yearly 

 loss of forty-seven dollars and ten cents per acre. Mat- 

 ting would therefore give, in this case, a saving of four- 

 teen dollars and ten cents per acre. 



Lastly, in the less celebrated vineyards of the moor- 

 lands, and on the hills of Bordelais, on the right bank 

 of the Garonne, between Bordeaux and Blaye, the av- 

 erage crop is five hundred and and twenty-eight gallons 

 to the acre, having a value of about one hundred and 

 sixty dollars. The losses arising from frosts and blight 

 are equivalent to three crops in ten years, or to forty- 



