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quality' ; marketed mostly at home and in adjoining towns ; chief 

 drawback low prices. None grown in houses for sale. Last 

 year's prices are no criterion, as it was an unusually wet season 

 and grapes did not ripen. 



Sherborn. — About 10 acres in vineyards ; Concord ; crop does 

 not promise to be an average one ; market, Boston ; grape cul- 

 ture decreasing in this town ; little money made on them the past 

 ten years. 



Shrewsbury. — Ten acres in vineyards ; Moore's Early, Concord, 

 Wordeu ; crop promises to be an average one in quantity and 

 quality ; estimated yield 7 tons ; crop marketed in Worcester ; 

 average price per pound received last year seven cents ; grape 

 culture in vineyards is increasing in this town. 



Westborough. — Possibly 4 or 5 acres in vineyards ; mostly 

 Concord ; crop will hardly be an average one ; estimated yield 8 

 to 10 tons ; some of crop goes to Boston, but most is marketed 

 in town ; grape culture in vineyards not increasing. There are 

 three or four small houses most of which are heated by hot 

 water. 



A warm, dry soil is best suited to the grape ; and a south 

 slope, with shelter of wood or belts of trees on the north- 

 east and west to prevent the winds from blowing away the 

 hot air created by the heat of the sun, is always desirable. 



With careful management grapes can be profitably grown 

 in favorable localities in Massachusetts and a ripened crop 

 be depended upon four years out of five. The profit 

 depends largely upon the care and economy exercised by 

 growers in all the details of the work. The production is 

 so abundant that there is little or no profit to the ordinary 

 grower, but to the painstaking cultivator a superior article 

 still furnishes a fair remuneration. 



At a meetino; of the State Board of Ao;riculture in Fall 

 River, in 1871, the late J. B. Moore of Concord, the origi- 

 nator of the Moore's Early, stated that he had seen at the 

 rate of nearly ten tons to the acre raised, but he considered 

 from two to five tons per acre a fair crop. He also stated 

 that grapes can be raised for three cents a pound and that 

 he could grow them as cheaply as he could grow potatoes. 



