COMMUNICATION—GRAPE CULTURE. 
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The report of the results of my apiaries for the past season 
will be found elsewhere, and those who would like to know 
what can be done in bee-keeping are referred to it. To pre¬ 
vent a wrong impression, I will add here that I have my bees 
scattered in five different locations during the summer; and 
that I had the most honey, taking all things into account, from 
those two apiaries where there were only thirty and forty 
stocks. 
The reader may ask, will not the price of honey be so low 
that bee-keeping will not pay, if many persons should engage 
in it? I can only say, that it is not at all likely. I would 
consider ten cents per pound for honey much better pay than 
$1.50 per bushel for wheat; and if honey could be sold at that 
price, the consumption would so increase that a product of ten¬ 
fold the present amount would be disposed of in market in less 
time than it now takes to sell the present supply. 
And now, kind reader, should you undertake to commence 
bee-keeping, do not get discouraged if you fail in your first 
attempt. There are seasons in which bee-keeping is really a 
losing business, but they are rare, and in good years bee-keep¬ 
ing pays from one to three hundred per cent, on the capital in¬ 
vested. 
Respectfully yours, 
ADAM GRIMM. 
Jefferson, December, 1871. 
GRAPE CULTURE IN WISCONSIN. 
Dr. J. W. Hoyt, Secretary State Agricultural Society. 
Sir: In response to your request that I would furnish an 
account of my system of grape culture, I offer the following 
for what it may be worth, as the fruit of my own experience, 
and my conclusions thereon. 
My experimental tests have been more the result of neces¬ 
sity than prolonged investigation. I can only hope to call the 
attention of vintners and others to the results of these experi¬ 
ments in an amateur way, with the desire that they may profit 
