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from the Lake Shore "Wine Compaii}'^ and have continued the manu- 

 facture. Tlie cellars of the company have a capacity for storing nearly 

 200,000 gallons of wine, and the amount manufactured so far has 

 varied from 15,000 to 30,000 gallons annually. The varieties manu- 

 factured consist of three brands of sparkling Manes, the " Honey- 

 moon," the "Diamond "\V.edding," and " Sparkling Catawba." In all 

 these varieties the juice of the Isabella forms a considerable portion 

 of the wine, other varieties being mixed with it with a view of vary- 

 ing the flavors. The only sugar used is that which is always employed 

 in the manufacture of sparkling wines to evolve the carbonic acid 

 gas. Of the other varieties they manufacture Still Catawba, Sweet 

 Catawba, Red Clinton, Still Isabella, Red Isabella and Sweet Isabella. 



The present year they have also considerable wine from the Dela- 

 ware grape. They have a home market in western New York, Penn- 

 sylvania and Ohio for all the wine they have thus far been able to 

 manufacture, but are making preparations to enlarge their operations. 



The average consumption of grapes in wine-making is twelve 

 pounds to a gallon. The price which a pint of this wine commands 

 is seventy-five cents. Thus a pound of grapes made into wine, with 

 the glass containing it, brings the wine maker two dollars. For lands 

 and climates suited to grape growing-, what other crop is so profitable ? 



l^Ew Mode of PREVENxmG Decay ts Wood. 



The preservation of farm implements was discussed at length in a 

 paper read by a gentleman interested in a valuable discovery. He 

 says : 



There is probably no branch of industry in this country in which, 

 wealth, enterprise, and genius are more successfully employed than in 

 the manufacture of agricultural implements. The very best timber is 

 selected for this purpose, and much time and labor expended in its 

 preparation ; yet, after all, the wood work of these implements lasts 

 but a few years ; however well it may be seasoned by the ordinary 

 process, it is liable to destruction by dry rot and powder post. Expo- 

 sure to the alternations of temperature and moisture, if it do not 

 produce immediate decay, will cause checking and otherwise des- 

 troy the vitality and elasticity, and thus produce brittleness of fibre. 



Indeed the strength of the wood is not unfrequently impaired in 

 its preparation for use. By many, the wood is soaked in water prior 

 to drying ; the albumen is thus dissolved, and by the application of 

 Jieat, natural o>* artificial, the solution is driven out ; the loss of the 



