grape needs no protection in winter ; and that " they 

 find at the West that one man can take care of five 

 acres of grapes, and the same thing can be done here." 



Fourthly — As to projits, Mr. Bull makes the following 

 statements : 



From the records of the Agricultural Society of Wir- 

 temberg (in Germany) — which records have been kept 

 for more than four hundred years — about one half the 

 number have been tolerably favorable seasons for the 

 grape, both as to productiveness and the quality of the 

 vintage. 



The average yield of wine throughout Europe is a- 

 bout two hundred and fifty gallons per acre, worth, at 

 twenty-five cents a gallon, sixty-three dollars an acre ; 

 or, for the twelve millions, two hundred and eighty-five 

 thousand, and seven hundred and eighty acres under 

 cultivation, somewhat more than seven hundred and sev- 

 enty-four millions of dollars. 



But in this country, where such large quantities of 

 the fruit are sold for the table at good prices, and where 

 the yield per acre is much greater, Mr. Bull claims that 

 the profits greatly surpass those secured in Europe. He 

 states that Col, Hussman of Missouri — fifty miles 

 west of St. Louis — gets nearly nine tons of grapes, and 

 makes a thousand gallons of wine to the acre ! This, 

 however, is an extraordinary yield ; for the average pro- 

 duct of the vineyards in Missouri is from 250 to 600 

 gallons of wine to the acre ; and the yield of the Ca- 

 tawba grape, on Kelley's Island, Lake Erie, is only 

 three and a half tons to the acre. Yet Mr. Jode of 

 Burlington, Iowa, took 8,860 pounds of Concord grapes 

 from half an acre, which had been planted but four 

 years — this being the first crop — while a gentleman in 



