Fannin«- is paying but little. Wh\' not lessen yonr acreage of 
common farm crops and plant a portion of your land to grapes? 
With onr assistance yon can grow grapes as well as corn. 
Can yon afford to raise grain on land that will rai.se grapes? 
We copy the following estimates, compiled by an expert for one 
of onr agricultural papers; 
Eighty acres of pasture land for cattle or sheep will yield . . $200 
Twenty acres of barley will yield 200 
Twenty acres of oats will yield 200 
Twenty acres of wheat will yield 200 
Five acres of alfalfa produce 200 
Four acres of apples yield 200 
Two acres of apricots yield 200 
Two acres of plums yield 200 
One acre of peaches yields 200 
Two-thirds of an acre of Bartlett pears yields 200 
These estimates are for the bearing years. When yon take into 
account the fact that these grains and fruits do not bear a full crop 
oftener than every second or third year, you have the c.xact amount 
of income from twenty acres of land in the above-named crops. 
No fruit or grain is .so certain to bear a good crop every year as 
grapes. No water protection nece.ssary to grow Dianu.nd Grapes 
succe.ssfully. You can verify this assertion by referring to the vines 
in yonr own yard. With no cultivation and very little trimming 
you can hardly remember of a failure. 
Now let us make an estimate of what yon might expect if the 
above-named twenty acres were planted to Diamond (irapes: 
The average yield of the common varieties in Chautauqua 
county, N. Y. , as reported bj' a committee appointed by the West- 
ern New York florticulturai Society, is twenty pounds per vine. 
There are five hundred -vines on an acre; on twenty acres there would 
be ten thousand vines; if each vine (when it came into full bearing) 
produced twenty pounds (and the.se fine table grapes should ever sell 
as low as three cents a ])onnd, the price of the common varieties 
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