74 APPENDIX. 



The labor bestowed upon this culture in the preparation of 

 the ground, planting and dressing, and making the wine, 

 gives employment to at least six hundred efficient laborers, 

 at an annual cost of 8120,000, producing, when in a bearing 

 state, in moderately favorable seasons, about 240,000 gallons 

 of wine, estimated at about the same number of dollars. Be- 

 side the cultivators and vine-dressers, employment is also 

 given to wood-coopers, equal to the making of eight thousand 

 barrels, estimated at 88,000. 



A considerable portion of this crop now falls into the hands 

 of the wine coopers, and is converted into sparkling wine or 

 champagne, thereby more than doubling its market price. 

 The value of sparkling wine prepared in this county in 1851, 

 as near as we can arrive at an estimate, amounts to not less 

 than 875,000. The dealing in these wines also forms a con- 

 siderable item in the transactions of the wine merchants. 



As most of those engaged in the culture of the vine have 

 families to support, as well as others engaged in the business, 

 it may, without exaggeration, be calculated that the wine in- 

 terest in Hamilton county, affords subsistence, directly or in- 

 directly, to at least 2,000 industrious and sober people — a 

 drunken vine-dresser we have never met with. 



S. MosHER, Pres. Hor. Soc. 



Cincinnati, March 15, 1852. 



When this report was read before the society, some of the 

 members expressed great surprise at the large amount of the 

 vineyard interest — but others considered the estimate to be 

 below the truth. Mr. Yeatman suggested that it should be 

 put at 500,000 gallons for the aggregate annual yield, in a 

 fair averas^e estimate. 



Mr. LoNGwoKTH considered the value of sparkling wine, 

 prepared last year, to be 8175,000, instead of the amount 

 reported above. 



