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is usually about 2,400, being planted about three 

 feet by six. Dr* Underbill, of New York, remarks : 

 *' There is not a more proj&table and certain crop, 

 than the Isabella grape ; it will ripen where corn 

 will, and not fail once in ten years." Mr. Long- 

 worth justly observes, " Those who commence this 

 business and conduct it properly, will make[^fortunes 

 by it," and we might reasonably conclude that he 

 is correct, for it is stated in the papers at the west, 

 that the tax on his own property is over |30,000 

 annually! the results of his extensive operations 

 in American wine^ He puts up from 100,000 to 

 200,000 bottles of sparkling Catawba annually, 

 which requires from fifteen to tweniy months to 

 ripen, and he owns about 130 acres of vineyard, cul- 

 tivated by twenty-seven tenants, mostly Germans, 

 with their families. Their women asbitet in the 

 operations of ihc vineyard accordmg to their usual 

 custom in their native country. Mr. L. says, " that 

 the grape culture will succeed and be projStable 

 and our wine gradually grow into public favor, 

 there can no longer be a doubt. Thus far, oui 

 wine has met with a ready sale in our own city, 

 [Cincinnati;] but with the contemplated extension 

 of the cultivation in this vicinity, we shall soon be 

 compelled to look abroad for a market." 



Says Mr. Buchanan, "Paper calculations of 

 profits are often deceptive and sometimes mislead 

 those not accustomed to act from their own judg- 

 ment," and for sake of condensing estimates he 

 gives the following. 



