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murk or pomace is given to poultry and animals, 

 and is also used in tanning leather, giving it a j&ne 

 odor, and the leaves are eaten by cattle, giving a 

 jfine fragrance to hay when mixed with it. 



Dr. Underhill, at a meeting of the Farmer's Club 

 held at the room of the American Institute, New 

 York, said : " I am asked to speak on the grape 

 question, but I can not in the space of an hour give 

 a proper view of it: I will therefore but sketch! 

 The grape is immortalized in history, poetry, in 

 Scripture, in painting. The tendrils of the grape 

 have enwrapped the heart of man in every country 

 where it grows. The grape is so delicious, so 

 salutary — diluting the blood, and causing it to flow 

 easily through the veins, and there is nothing equal 

 to it for old age. In this country its use will grow, 

 will increase until its consumption will be prodi- 

 gious. It will supplant some of the articles which 

 destroy men, and establish the cheerful body in 

 place of the bloated, diseased systems of the intem- 

 perate. No disease of the liver, no dyspepsia, are 

 found among those who freely eat the grape. This 

 remarkable fact is stated in reference to the vine- 

 yard portions of France. Persons who are sickly 

 in grape countries, are made well when grapes are 

 ripe, and this result is familiarly called the grape 

 cure. In this country, our attention has often been 

 misdirected, and we have spent years and sums of 

 money on imported vines. We have proved the 

 fallacy of all this, for the foreign grape will not 

 flourish in our open air. It thrives only under glass. 



