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bottles of still wine this year, and to give their entire attention 

 to that class of wines. 



CoRNEAu & Sons prepare both sparkling and still wines ; 

 their sales, last year, amounted to over 10,000 bottles, and 

 their business is rapidly on the increase. 



Dr. L. Rehfuss has an excellent cellar, and is preparing 

 still wines with great care, principally from his own vine- 

 yards. 



T. H. Yeatman is arranging to make sparkling wines. He 

 has, heretofore, only made still wines. 



Mr. Miller, near the city, also makes sparkling Catawba. 



It is encouraging to the producer as well as the wine mer- 

 chant to know, that the demand for their wines, particularly 

 the sparkling Catawba, has lately increased beyond all calcu- 

 lations ; they can scarcely be prepared fast enough to meet 

 the market. There is no reason to believe that the consump- 

 tion will diminish, for the wines become popular wherever 

 they are introduced. And yet, we are but just beginning to 

 learn how to make them. This looks well for the future. 



NUMBER OF ACRES IN CULTIVATION. 



Some two years ago, the Cincinnati Horticultural Society 

 appointed a committee, of which Dr. Mosher is chairman, to 

 take a statistical account of the vineyards in this vicinity. 

 The report is not yet completed, but the following estimate of 

 the aggregate has been furnished, and is supposed to be 

 nearly accurate, viz : Number of acres in vineyard culture 

 within a circle of twenty miles around Cincinnati, 1,200 — un- 

 der charge of 295 proprietors and tenants. Of this, Mr. 

 LoNGWORTH owns 122|- acres, cultivated by twenty-seven 

 tenants. 



At the low estimate of ^200 per acre, for cost of planting, 

 etc., this would amount to $240,000 — exclusive of the value 

 of the land ; and when in full bearing, produce, at the most 

 moderate estimate, for a series of years (of 200 gallons to the 



