COST OF ESTABLISHING A VINEYARD. 45 



Trenching two feet deep, $65 per acre, $390 00 



Sodding- avenues, 60 00 



Cost of 30,000 cuttings, at $2,50 per thousand, 75 00 



Planting, 70 00 



Fourteen thousand five hundred locust stakes, at $3 per 



hundred, 435 00 



Setting 14,500 stakes, 55 00 



1,085 00 

 Cost of attending the first year — vine-dresser, $216, and a 



hand for one month, $15 (and board themselves), $231 00 



Second year — vine-dresser, $216, a hand for two months, 



at $15 per month, 256 00 



Cuttings, after first year, to replace failures, say, 20 00 



Hauling, carting, etc., 68 00 



Contingencies, etc.,. 150 00 



Average cost, say, $300 per acre, 1,800 00 



The vineyard being on a gentle declivity did not require 

 benching, which would have been more expensive than the 

 draining by sodded avenues — nor did the ground contain 

 stone enough to add to the expense of trenching, which, in 

 some positions, is a very serious item. 



By proper economy, a man may have a vineyard of seve- 

 ral acres in a few years, without feeling the expense to be 

 burdensome. Commence by trenching one acre in the winter, 

 and planting it out in the spring ; next year another acre, and 

 so on, for five or six years. After the third year, he will 

 have his own cuttings from the first acre, and also grapes 

 enough to pay for the cost of planting the succeeding addi- 

 tions to his vineyard. 



If he has suitable timber on his own land, the stakes can 

 be got out in the winter with but little outlay in money. 

 By this course, the cost of a vineyard of six acres would not 

 be half as much as the foregoing estimate. 



In Mr. Resor's article, published here in full, will be 

 found valuable statistical estimates of the cost of the vine- 

 yard, and also of its product. 



