52 CULTURE OF THE GRAPE. 



own judgment ; but for the sake of condensing- the foregoing 

 estimates, the following is given as a 



RECAPITULATION. 



Cost of a vineyard per acre, say $250, interest per annum $15,00 



Cost of attending per acre, 60,00 



Cost of making the wine, 25,00 



$100,00 

 Probable average annual product 200 galls, wine, say at $1,00 200,00 



Supposed profit per acre $100,00 



But should the wine bring only 75 cts. per gallon, it would 

 still leave a profit of $50 per acre, which is large enough, 

 and more likely to be the sum realized throughout the 

 county. 



It will be observed ^hat no allowance is made, in the above 

 calculations, for interest on the cost of the press, or the ves- 

 sels and casks used in making and fermenting the wine. 

 The press will cost $60 to $150, and express 160 to 300 gal- 

 lons per day; the vessels $10 to $15 ; and the casks, four 

 to eight cents per gallon, as to size and quality. The 

 other estimates, however, are made liberal enough to cover 

 all this. The loss in quantity in making the wine, by fer- 

 mentation, lees in racking, and by evaporation, will be about 

 ten per cent. 



Since the first edition of this treatise, the author has had 

 two years' more experience in grape culture, and is there- 

 fore induced to give an account of his own vineyard, from its 

 commencement, in the following 



MEMORANDA. 



1 843. Planted 500 vines, two year old Catawba, and a few 

 Lenoir, Cape, and Isabella, in plowed ground at the foot of the 

 or shard, on the slope of a hill facing the south, intended only 



