aSa Vineyard Culture. 



make a loss of thirty-six dollars and forty cents a year. 

 The matting would, in that case, give a yearly saving 

 of only three dollars and forty cents per acre, for Gam- 

 ais grapes, yielding the gross cash product we have 

 mentioned. 



In Champagne (£pernay. Ay) the crop amounts to 

 about one hundred and fifty-eight gallons per acre, and 

 the average selling price is sixty cents per gallon, or 

 about ninety-four dollars and eighty cents for the whole 

 product. In that region, the losses through frosts and 

 blight are set down at the value of three crops in ten 

 years, which makes a yearly loss of twenty-eight dollars 

 and forty cents per acre. In that case, unfortunately, 

 the use of mats would not be profitable. 



The vineyards of Medoc give about two hundred 

 and thirty-three gallons to the acre, and the selling price 

 varies, according to the quality, from seventy cents to 

 two dollars per gallon, or an average of one dollar and 

 thirty-five cents, which makes three hundred and four- 

 teen dollars for the gross product, per acre. The loss 

 arising from frosts and blight is estimated at the value 

 of one and a half crops in ten years, making a yearly 

 loss of forty-seven dollars and ten cents per acre. Mat- 

 ting would therefore give, in this case, a saving of four- 

 teen dollars and ten cents per acre. 



Lastly, in the less celebrated vineyards of the moor- 

 lands, and on the hills of Bordelais, on the right bank 

 of the Garonne, between Bordeaux and Blaye, the av- 

 erage crop is five hundred and and twenty-eight gallons 

 to the acre, having a value of about one hundred and 

 sixty dollars. The losses arising from frosts and blight 

 are equivalent to three crops in ten years, or to forty-. 



