332 Vineyard Culture. 



and cleaning the grapes must be attended to. Such 

 bunches, or portions of bunches as are not sufficiently 

 ripe, or are affected in any way, by rot, scorching, etc., 

 are put aside. This picking may be done in three dif- 

 ferent ways : sometimes the cutters are intrusted with 

 the duty, in which case they are provided with scissors, 

 which serve, also, for cutting the grapes. They throw 

 into a basket, set for that purpose between two cutters, 

 the refuse we have just spoken of, which is afterward 

 consigned to a tub, also set apart for that purpose. 

 Sometintes this picking is done by a woman, at the 

 time when the baskets are emptied into the tubs. Last- 

 ly, this work is often done at the wine-press, as the tubs 

 are brought in, and just before the grapes are crushed. 

 There the work can be done more completely, and con- 

 veniently. The refuse of these pickings often serves 

 for making wine-cider for the vine-dressers. 



XV. 



DIFFERENT MODES OF WORKING A 

 VINEYARD. 



A VINEYARD may be worked by means of the 

 three different methods applicable to all landed 

 property, that is to say, renting, letting out on shares, and 

 working by the proprietor himself. 



RENTING. Renting is undoubtedly the way of ob- 

 taining the revenue of a vineyard with the least care 

 and trouble to the owner. Nevertheless, it would be a 

 great mistake to suppose that this species of contract 

 releases the owner from the care of overlooking his 



