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After drawing the must from the wine, the remaining matter will 

 make good vinegar by adding water enough to float the mass, and 

 leaving it open to admit the air while fermenting, in five or six days 

 or longer, draw it in casks or demijohns, and lay it away in a warm 

 place — it will be fit for use in twelve months or sooner, and of ex- 

 cellent quality. 



The quantity of sugar must be regulated according to the saccha- 

 rine matter contained in the grape, as for example; 



Ripe Warren grapes whh. one pound of sugar will make some- 

 thing like Madeira wine, by adding one gill or more of cog. brandy 

 to the gallon of wine; with one and a half to two pounds of sugar, 

 it will make good Malmsey, with a dessert-spoonful of brandy to the 

 bottle, or it will keep without any brandy with that quantity of 

 sugar. 



Scuppernong requires two pounds of sugar. 

 Muscadine do do 



The bottle champagne, I think, from the imperfection of the 

 corking may be sour. 



Yours respectfully, 



D. PONCE. 



The following letter from Geo. Seaborne, to 0. R. Brogles, presi- 

 dent of the South Carolina Agricultural Society, was then read: 



February lOth, 1847. 



Dear sir: — I received the communications you sent me from Mr. 

 Skinner, and have given the subject an attentive consideration. It 

 is as he remarks, a matter of the most profound astonishment, that 

 the first of all interests, the one which forms the basis of individual 

 and national prosperity, and even existence, should have been so 

 long neglected, overlooked and despised, and left to grope its way 

 through the dim and flickering lights of experience alone, unaided 

 by science, or the mo.st trifling contributions from a National Legis- 

 lature, which, during the whole period of its existence, has been so 

 lavish in its expenditures in favor of other and inferior interests, as 

 to have destroyed the great principle of equal rights, and endangered 

 the perpetuity of the Union. 



This total neglect of the rights and interests of agriculture, is at 

 war with the principles of reason and common sense. In the ordi- 



