facility, cr extorted by importunity, have been paraded for the purpose 

 of enriching the inventor, which, in an age when science throws open 

 the gates of benefit to all, is a poor effort at monopoly, and falls with 

 expense and disappointment on the laborious and diligent manipulator 

 of the products of the Vine. Finally it may be said that it is profit- 

 able in the South to cover the vats partially, because otherwise the 

 wine would be likely to sour ; but in the North the vats must be ex- 

 posed during the violent fermentation, and closed up as soon as it is 

 over. The wine, it is true, is not as rich, but experience proves that 

 thia is the only proper mode to prevent its being soured. 



