846 FRUIT CULTURE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



Expense per acre for harrowing, hoeing, etc - $4.80 



Expense per acre for manuring 3.20 



Expense per acre for pruning, osiers and stakes 3. 60 



Expense per acre for leafing 40 



Expense per acre for sulphur 2.40 



Expense per acre for gathering 96 



Expense per acre for "bringing in 40 



Total-.. . 15.76 



Product, 1,200 kilograms of grapes, at .04 48.00 



To illustrate the extraordinary differences of return to which the in- 

 dustry is subject, independently of outlay or treatment, an estimate 

 purporting to represent facts may be cited from a parliamentary return 

 on the subject. The comparison is limited to a parcel of 60 vines mar- 

 ried to 15 trees, and provided each with 5 additional sustaining stakes, 

 and the expense incurred, in each case the same, is : 



300 stakes, at 2 cents each __ $6.00 



Pruning (6 days' work) 1.20 



Sulphur (30 kilograms, at 5 cents) 1.50 



Sulphnration (2 days' work) , 40 



Vintage (10 days' work) 1.60 



Total.. . 10.79 



MAXIMUM PRODUCT. 



3,532 pounds of grapes $46.40 



444 pounds of wood 1.19 



Total 47.59 



MINIMUM PRODUCT. 



444 pounds of grapes $5.80 



222 pounds of wood 60 



Total 6.40 



MCWALTER E. NOTES, 



Consul. 

 UNITED STATES CONSULATE, 



Venice, March 3, 1884. 



RUSSIA. 



REPORT BY CONSUL-GENERAL STANTON, OF ST. PETERSBURG. 

 [Republished from Consular Reports No. 30.} 



Along the shores of the Black Sea, Sea of Azof, and on both sides of 

 the Caucasian Mountains, Russia possesses a vast territory devoted to 

 the culture of the grape. Astrachau may be considered as the home 

 of JRussian grape culture, since the first vines were planted there at the 



