ON THE VINERY. 
1 1 1 
Although many good grapes may be obtained the third fum- 
mer, and efpecially from the temporary plants, yet it will be 
prudent to have a regard to future wood, rather than to the 
crop. 
It 
“ proprietors of the vineyards at fo much a baflcet. They reckon that from 
“ five to eight hundred baikets are neceflary for an acre of Vines. I faw the 
“ bafkets, and reckon them to hold about half a bufhel, fo that eight hundred 
“ bafkets are four hundred bufhels, which I take to be about twelve or thir- 
“ teen common farmers cart-loads ; and this manuring is repeated every four 
“ or five years, 
“ The price per baficet varies according to the fort of dung and litter, but it 
“ generally comes to five or fix fliillings an hundred, delivered in the vine- 
“ yards ; but if very good, to feven or eight, and fometimes more has been 
“ given. 
“ Making dung is fo much attended to throughout all the wine country, that 
“ every means are ufed to increafe the quantity. 
“ All cattle are kept in houfes as much as polTible, and littered ftraw is ufed 
“ for this ■, alfo ftubble, which is p\dled up by hand : Rubbiflr wood from 
“ foreft land, leaves of trees fwept up, and fern from wafte tradls ; every thing 
“ is applied to litter with the moft unremitted attention. Much cattle are 
“ kept, efpecially cows. Thefe are fed by every means that can be taken. 
“ Every weed that is picked up in the vineyards, every blade of grafs that 
“ arifes, is faved with as much care as the grapes, and given to the cows.* 
“ Dung is, however, fometimes laid on in March, but it is not reckoned fo 
“ proper for tliat work as Autumn. The quantity is the fame at either fea- 
“ fon. 
* The tvhole of this paragraph merits particular attention^ and is truly worthy 
the farmer's unremitted imitation. 
