SEMI-TIiOPK' 1 LI FORM I A. 
WtculfHce. 
A Vineyarh can lie safely estimated 
paying 10 per cent, on a valuation of #500 
per acre. YVc know of several vineyards 
that last year paid 10 per cent, on a valua 
tion of about #1,000 per acre. 
We hate no hesitation in advising the 
planting of a vineyard for profit. 
Twenty acres properly planted, with the 
right quality of cuttings, with careful ciilti 
vatioti, will yield a revenue to the owner of 
#1,000 per year, every year, one with an 
other, as sure as a note with real estate an 
Otlrity will bring 10 per cent, per annum. 
Forty acres of land is enough for any 
tmtn to handle ns a vineyard — twenty acre, 
might be better in fact, and the young man, 
the middle- aged man, or the old man, with 
Or without a family who cun procure twenty 
norea of this land, ami can for two years 
live upon aod cultivate a portion of it as a 
vineyard, will be better olf in a little while, 
heal hipr and happier than if he wore a 
clerk, mechanic, laborer or small merchant 
in this city—and his children will be 
stronger in every way, and better able to 
li^ht the battle of life than they would if 
raised in this or any other oitv. 
PROFITS IN RAISIN CULTURE, 
Dr. O. H. Conger, in an article to the 
Skmi-Tropic Cai.ifokma sometime since, 
said: My vine* arc of the Muscat variety, 
ami three years from cuttings, and also 
without irrigation from the setting. For 
nier care of the same lias not been with the 
view of raisin-making; hence it is safe to 
assert that they have Tacked the proper at 
ttuition in some respects that would have 
been to their advantage. Hut such as it 
has been, I am now enabled to present tin 
following as the return* fur the emp just 
marketed: Dross receipts from raisins per 
acre, #01.7(1; from grapes por acre, #13; 
from cuttings, #13,(1*; t,,t„I, I. lip 
ducting the sum of #25 per acre for the <m 
tire expense of care of vineyard ami mar 
keting crop, which iniilndcs everything con* 
Mictod with tlm work, and wo have a profit 
of #03.74. 1 
FACTS ABOUT VINE TAROS. 
I lie editor of the Anaheim (Jm.tti, who 
Inis had considerable experience) in vine 
growing, line the following in a Into issim 
of his valuable paper: Thorn are f.ov more 
profitable purauits than vine-growing, and 
there is certainly no Occupation a. ph'avant 
to those who favor an an mil. door life. One 
able bodied, imlnstrh.ua man nan, single 
handed, cultivate and manage a twenty, or 
even thirty, acre vlimyard up to t|„. time 
when the vinca begin to bear a paying crop 
II an immigrant can come hem with enough 
money to purchase thirty or forty «erc. 
of land, build a house lor hi„, so |f and 
bm.ly, ,„,l a U,,u„ l„ thi. 
a««d only I). a vary olie,,, ,|T,jr, and 
have enough money left on hand to 
purchase the necessaries of life for throe, 
or at most four years he can at the end of 
that time have a beautiful and valuable 
homo in one of tho best countries in the 
world, a largo Income, a propitious future, I 
and be able to enjoy tlm fruits of his labors j thes* 
—rendered doubly enjoyable by tin* oxer-1 who are full of »e|frr 
lions which their fruition called forth, and energy, Calilomi 
These are liaril facts, not fanciful reprn- the la/y, nor a home fi 
sontnlions, (Jo and ask any of the owner* dillertou. Hot men » 
of the well-kept twenty-acre vineyards in small aim runt of ready money, 
Anaheim what they will take for their home, end arc able and willing to w<, 
and, providing they urc willing to sell, the omi/e as they .Jo in --ther St 
prii i. imkcd would astonish the tinvioo wlm! safely promise them » gni>d j, 
has given little thought to Urn income coinpetance in th« near future 
which twenty acres of vigorous bearing Til# Sacramento //. r nnlv adds 
vine* will annually bring tbeir owner. I to the long list wbsn it q> 
- — - - I recently received from lt< 
THE PROFITS OF GRAPE CULTURE. 
il a basi 
stupitl a 
cs fro 
tneyard will commcnco bearing three 
year* after setting out. Tho yield will be 
lar above expenses of cultivation and 
harvesting. At live years old, a vineyard 
will yield from four to six tons of fruit per 
acre. Grapes, this year, will sell nt the 
vineyard for from #20 to #30 per ton, ac¬ 
cording to quality. Old vineyards, say at 
ten years, will yield from seven to thirteen 
tuns of fruit- There arc in California live 
millions acres of lands which can be ob¬ 
tained at low ligurcs and upon easy terms, 
ns to payments, say from #|(l to #25 per 
acre. 'These lands arc located in thu foot¬ 
hills of California, both north and south, 
and arc the best grape lands in the State. 
Many of these land*, in the middle and 
northern portion of California, are cun- 
tiguoiia to water ditches, for mining pur- 
puses. This water could bo purchased for |' # 
irrigation purposes at reasonable rate* ip L„”. 
many localities, thus making grapo culture 1. ; , • , 
h enrt.inIo TV, „„ ,1... i....: . I **•«• 
with a range of pi 
ligent Italian who had long lived 
foruia. lie says: “Italy in a fine 
—the land of my nativity. Ih 
travelers say it is the finest in tha 
only had my early memories of it, 
lieved it pvcti during my many y. 
deuce among you. I was all wmr 
is no place or climate equal to t 
I am home-lick and you need not 
prised to see me any day. Italy i 
irla are the best climates of rfar 
do not compare with our own.” 
add that we are personally acquainted with 
two gentlemen who has.- visited Italy, aod 
they declare unhesitatingly that the boasted 
climate of that land of song i* n t to be 
compared with tho climate c 
and 
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A us. 
but 
■rn ib. 
It' there is any cither country that can 
oiler the immigrant greater advantages than 
California, we should like t.i know where it 
i» Incated. Wo offer to the immigrant, in the 
ither, “a choice of every va- 
, and land utswt mountain 
SSRr- T„ i„» a« , i!L„™»|j3W; t ,,ln -" a ^ ""j' ‘ ’ 
quirrvs but a small capital, aay from #1,000 L. 1 *":* i ' i 
pear, prune, plum, nectarine, chi 
regions will grow thu viim without irriga 
tion, and the grape of such section* is 
superior for wine-making, A vineyard, 
after it eormtiBdoua to boar fruit, will cun 
tinusr for lilty yours, if properly cultivated. 
There is no businrs* that will pay 
ns well for tho money ami lab. 
invested, a« grapu culture -tin bu*ine> 
equal t.1 it for Comfort nnd health. Th 
vHieyardist of the urtun.'iit lima has befurrl,"' 
him the ovpnrimnntit of centuries, for guid-| 
arum, of foreign countries, and, therefore, - 
failure in this Slate, is simply out nf the ' 
qi|e»tlun. The demand fur California wines (611 
and raisins will steadily increase for maur 1 
yeura to .mum, ami the pric* will prove re', i",' 
muiierative lor good aiticls*. What a Held 
is her** open to young men of imlustry and | 
energy, llmiiauud* of tb 
the grape- all of whit 
unsurpassed. Of the cor 
there 1* 110I otic which e 
ply of man's wan (a and 
>-C produced ill abumi 
j plants yielding fibre f> i 
cotton, the flax, hemp, a 
can be produced In va 
suiudy the wants 1 f t 
ad t 
fig. 
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d.ffusi.u 
tig the cli 
r Slate, w 
fuller 
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0KAPE8. 
Tliore were 44,305 bamils, ami 50, 
half barrel* uf imported grape* receive 
Urn port of New Vurk during ISjy. 
s not look like overstocking the mai 
frmli grapes in this country very si 
iliesc were slopped from Spain. 
Most of ll 
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