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Cost of a vineyard per acre, say $250, interest 115 

 " " tending, " " " 60 



" " making the wine, per acre, say, 25 



$100 

 Average annual product, say 200 galls., at $1, 200 



Supposed profit per acre, $100 



His estimate of the gallons per acre, would ap- 

 pear to be below the usual quantity, as about 

 double that quantity is very generally obtained. 



A gentleman in Midway, Ky., who cultivates the 

 vine, writes, that wine can be made in his state as 

 in France or Germany ; " that it can be made as 

 cheap as cider, and at fifteen cents a gallon Jwill 

 pay better than any of their staple productions." 

 " And now," says he, for the proof, " say an acre of 

 Tines will produce 400 gallons, which at fifteen 

 cents is $60. Six hundred pounds of hemp on an 

 acre of our best land at $5 per hundred, is $30 ; 

 leaving a balance in favor of the wine of $30, or 

 one hundred per cent, in its favor. An acre of 

 corn, with us, will average fifty bushels, worth thirty 

 cents per bushel, making $15. Balance in favor of 

 the vineyard, per acre, $45. The expense of estab- 

 lishing a vineyard will be balanced by the cost of 

 seeds of hemp and corn sown annually, making all 

 things equal in that respect. The tillage of the 

 vineyard, and making wine, is not so laborious, nor 

 near so expensive per acre, as the tillage and labor 

 of securing the products of an acre of corn or hemp. 



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