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to eighty cents per gallon, making the proceeds, per acre, 

 from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and sixty 

 dollars. The same labor that will cultivate twenty acres 

 of corn, will suflBce for ten acres of grapes. Tlie twenty 

 acres of corn, when gathered, may, at the best prices 

 and best crops, be worth two hundred and fifty dollars; 

 the ten acres of grapes, from twelve hundred to sixteen 

 hundred dollars. This, however, cannot be expected to 

 last long ; as vineyards increase, and they are doing so 

 rapidly, the price of wine must come down: it can be 

 manufactured and sold at fifteen cents per bottle, and 

 then pay the producer better than any other crop he can 

 raise. The Champaigne, manufactured from the Cataw- 

 ba, is equal, in my judgment, to the best European brands. 

 I do not manufacture my own wine, but sell the juice to 

 the vintners." 



Amos Goodwin. 

 Near CTiarlestown, 



Clark County, Indiana^ 1848. 



In a subsequent letter from this gentleman, dated in 

 June, he says, " our grape crop looks remarkably well 

 this season ; the most trying time, however, is yet to 

 come, from the middle of July to the period of ripen- 

 ing." 



"Permit me to describe a method of grafting the 

 grape upon old roots, that I have never seen in print. 

 Out the old root oif, some two inches below the ground, 

 by a horizontal cut ; then choose a gimlet just tiie size of 

 the scion to be inserted, and bore from one to three or 

 four holes, according to the size of the root, and insert 



