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PROFITS OF THE VINEYARD. 



Profits ? says the enterprising Yankee, — " if good 

 profits can result from a vineyard, I'll look into the 

 matter a little." Well then, if you are disposed to 

 consider upon it, you can have the stateixients of 

 good practical men, and then you may calculate, 

 and whittle over the results, to your own satisfac- 

 tion. We have the record of Mn Buchanan, that 

 the year 1853 in Ohio, was favorable, and the yield 

 unusually large, averaging near Cincinnati, 650 gal- 

 lons of wine to the acre; and from the best culti- 

 vated vineyards, from 800 to 900 gallons. He 

 states that he obtained from five acres, 4,236 gal- 

 lons, or 847 gallons per acre. In some parts of the 

 state the crop was shortened by the rot, and in 

 many vineyards by careless cultivation, so that the 

 average yield for the whole did not exceed 400 gal- 

 lons to the acre." This wine commands from 75 

 cents to $1.00 per gallon, at the press! The Ca- 

 taioba is the kind principally cultivated in that sec- 

 tion, and is considered the best for wine, though 

 the Isabella is used to some extent. In the sta- 

 tistics of Mr. Resor, of Ohio, it appears that in 

 nine successive years after his father's vineyard 

 commenced bearing, it produced equivalent to 

 about 480 gallons per acre, each year. This vine- 

 yard, however, was small and favorably situated, 

 and under the care of a Judicious proprietor, and 

 the product should not be assumed as the average 

 for the country. Their number of vines on an acre 



