MK. KEbOK'a VINEYARD. 47 



1842 Vintage, Sept. 12, produce 166 galls. Catawba. 



" " " 319 " Cape. 



485 gallons. 



1843 Vintage, Sept. 15, produce 250 " Catawba. 



" " " 288 " Cape. 



538 gallons. 



1844 Vintage, Sept. 15, produce 108 galls. Catawba. 

 " " " " " 306 " Cape. 



414 gallons. 



1845 Vintage, Sept. 9, produce 283 galls. Cape. 



" " " 349 " Catawba. 



632 gallons. 



About one-eighth of the Catawba grapes were destroyed 

 by bees and other insects after ripening. 



The quantity eaten by three families is not taken into this 

 account. 



The ground has always been thoroughly hoed in the 

 spring, and kept free from weeds, and never manured until 

 last winter, when the ground was 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 



