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sively and profitably, we must have a sure market for the 

 wine as it comes from the press ; so that vine-dressers can 

 sell their wine as readily as the farmer his wheat. At pre- 

 sent it is mostly sold to our German population at fair 

 prices. Many, who are commencing vineyards, without any 

 knowledge on the subject, depending entirely upon others for 

 their success, may have cause to regret it when too late. In 

 commencing the cultivation of the vine, persons should con- 

 sider the absolute necessity of a certain market for the wine 

 as it comes from the press, and also of producing a quality of 

 wine that will repay for four or five years of anxious labor and 

 great expense. I began the investigation of the subject of mak- 

 ing American wine twelve years since ; and, after having satis- 

 fied myself of its practicability, my great anxiety has been to 

 secure a ready market for the wine. The farmer who grows 

 wheat, must live where he can readily send it to market, if 

 he expects to realize a fair compensation ; so the cultivators 

 of the vine must depend upon the wine-merchant to purchase 

 their wine. It is as much the business of the latter to pre- 

 pare it for market, as it is for the miller to grind the wheat. 

 The cultivation of the vine, with its entire management, until 

 he turns out the pure juice of the grape, belongs to the vine- 

 dresser, and the mixing and preparing it for market to the 

 wine-merchant, the latter being a distinct and separate busi- 

 ness." — Dr. Flagg's Report. 



In a Report to the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, Mr. 

 LoNGwoRTH, in 1846, says: "In the hope of inciting other 

 Germans * to go and do likewise,' I will state the result of 

 one of my vineyards this season. Sixteen years since I 

 bought an unusually broken piece of ground on Baldface 

 creek, four miles from the city. The soil is rich, but abounds 

 in stone. I had a tenant on it four years, who was bound to 

 plant a vineyard. At the end of four years nothing was 

 ione. I tried a second, and after three years, found no 

 grapes. I then gave a contract to a German (Mr. Dufer 



