very great promise and profit, now being
extensively grown throughout the country. The Messrs. BOGEN, from
one-third of an acre, first bearing year, give us the following figures
for the past season:

87 gallons of wine, sold at $6 per gallon, 522 00
Sold cuttings, 450 00
Sold roots from layers, 2,050 00
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$3,022 00
Deduct cost of culture, 22 00
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$3,000 00
Or $9,000 per acre.

Mr. J. E. MOTTIER gives us, as the result of his Delaware vineyard for
the past two years, as follows:

1863--FROM 1-1/2 ACRES.

165 gallons of wine, sold at $5 per gallon, $825 00
Sale of cuttings, 1,630 00
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2,455 00
Deduct expenses, 200 00
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Leaving net, $2,255 00
Or $1,504 per acre.

1864--FROM SAME VINEYARD.

200 gallons of wine, at $6 per gallon, $1,200 00
Sold roots from layers, 1,835 00
Sales of cuttings, 2,360 00
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5,395 00
Deduct expenses, 200 00
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Leaves net, $5,195 00
Or $3,562 per acre

Mr. MOTTIER says he might have obtained a larger yield of wine, but
his vineyard being young, he would not allow it to overbear.

Your committee, therefore, take pleasure in submitting the foregoing
facts, in refutation, in part, of the loose and reckless statements of
Mr. YEATMAN, and take this method of entering their protest against the
same.

(Signed), E. A. THOMPSON.
JOHN E. MOTTIER.

The foregoing contains some valuable facts, but it would seem to me
that our Cincinnati friends have hardly estimated labor and expenses
high enough. We cannot begin to cultivate our vineyards at as low an
estimate.

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