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the wine produced. Our German emigrants are the people who 

 ■will accomplish it. Our hills suitable for wine are of little value 

 for other cultivation. Give a German 10 acres of this land, and if 

 he has a wife and children, he will live in great luxury. He will 

 never w^ant for his two greatest of all luxuries, wine and sourcrout. 

 His children however small, not only aid him in the cultivation, but 

 his wife during the summer and fall does the greater part of the la- 

 bor in the vineyard. The poor vinedressers in Germany are seldom 

 so rich as to own a horse, and therefore over estimate their value. 

 Yet greatly as they value the acquisition of a broken down pony in 

 this country, it does not lessen their estimation of the great value of 

 their w^ves in the vineyards. A very honest Dutch tenant of mine, 

 who was so unfortunate as to lose his- wife, observed to me, " he 

 might just as well have lost his horse." 



