Report of its Transactions, &^c. 307 



covered and in the spring dug in. From the result this season, manuring 

 would seem to pay well, as the vines are in better condition than they ever 

 were after yielding a heavy crop. 



" The vines have been trained to stakes and the bearing wood cut out, 

 after having borne one season, leaving two shoots, trained the same season — 

 one to form the bearing hoop or bow and the other cut to two eyes — to 

 propagate wood for the next year ; the vine never having but the hoop and 

 the two eyes left for fruit each year growing at the same time. 



"This year the ends of the vines have been nipped, and the suckers 

 taken out four different times. 



"The following estimate I have made from what it has cost this year, 

 and it is not far from the actual expense, although the labor has been done 

 by the hands doing the other work on the farm ; and in making wine, extra 

 hands were always employed. By planting cuttings, and preparing the 

 ground by subsoil plowing, when it can be done, the expense would be les- 

 sened. The price is what the wine was sold at from the press this season, 

 and is a low estimate : — 



ESTIMATE. 



2,300 vines, at 6c., $138 00 



2,300 poles, at 2c., 46 00 



1,000 " replaced, 20 00 



TrenchiriJ ground and planting, 80 00 



Manuring last fall, SO' 00 



Two months' work, each year, 9 years, .... 225 00 



Extra work in making wine, ...... 150 00 



Interest on investments before crop, . . . . . 15 00 



704 00 

 Cr. by 4,300 gallons wine, at 75c., .... 3,229 50 



$2,525 50 



" The expense of cultivation, previous to the first crop, is not accounted 

 for, nor are the press, casks, &c. ; but the actual expense of cultivating an 

 acre of grapes, where persons are hired to attend to other work, would 

 amount to but very little, as but a short time is required to attend to clear- 

 ing the vines during the season." 



The spring exhibition for 1846 was held on the 28th of 

 May, and was crowded with visiters ; the only articles par- 

 ticularly specified, are '-several dishes of Hovey's Seedling 

 strawberries, 3^ to 4 inches in circumference, exhibited by 

 the President of the Society, George Graham, Esq., and Phlox 

 Van Houttei?*, by Thomas Winter. A long report succeeds 

 on the vineyards of Hamilton County, Ohio, from which it 

 appears that there is an aggregate of 83 vineyards, containing 

 about 250 acres — 114 being in bearing, and producing 23,219 

 gallons of wine last year. 



