Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-09-30
The STANDARD.

cm ,rpr or THE GRAPE-WNE GRowING.-We
;s below some statistics in regard to the culture OF
sha crane in the United States. 1t is q notorious
Sct Thai drunkenness unheard of in the wine-pro.
duc,ng countries of Europe; yet wine is daily USED
there bv the people, poor rich. And no douos
that fearful vice will diminish in this country as the
vine culture progresses. Let the supply OF comes
tic wine be once adequate to the necesstes-let its
price be reduced 10 render 1t accessible 10 all
and we shall hear no more complaints OF lntemper-
ance and its terrible consequences. We shall then
have become a temperate people, without a sacrifice
of genial and socable feelings; We shall enjoy ex-
ceent health and Spirits and shall be equally ready
for amusement or work. The efforts, therefore,
which. of late years. have been made in the United
States to deveope the vine culture deserving OF
the highest encomiums. Our natural resources for
this beautiful industry are very great; the ready
sale of the produce and its highly remuneratve price
promise ultimate success. In 10 the United States
produced, according to the census, 124,73 gallons;
in $780, 22l ,249 gallons Almost every State in the
Union contributed to make up this figure. The
principal wine producing regions ranked, at that
time, as follows:
l. California, which yielded 5S,t55 gallons
Q. Ohio, 4S,2O7 gallons
8. Pennsylvania, 25,590 gallons
4 Indiana 14055 gallons
g. North Carolina, lbs gallons
G. Missouri. 1865 gallons
Z. New York, 9,172 gallons
g. Kentucky, S,093 gallons
g. South Carolina, 5,SSO gallons
10. Virginia, 5,4pS gallons
IL. Massachusetts,, 4.6ss gallons
12 Connecticut 1860 gallons
73 Illinois 1897 gallons
IA. New Mexico, 1858 gallons
The Patent Office Report for 1853 states the value
of the vintage of that year to have been S2,OOooOo
There is every reason to believe that since, much
has been accomplished in this branch OF agriculture,
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production of wine is by far limited yet, and its
price too high to reduce the consumption of BRAN
dies and other heavy, intoxicating drinks; as also
the importation of foreign wines and liquors How
desirable nay necessary, the latter object is in point
of national economy, may be inferred from the fact
that we send annually nearly S. 100000 to Europe
for these articles At this moment of scarcity OF
money, it may not be quite Improbable to examine
little into the account Of last years liquor debts.
The number of gallous of wine imported in the
country in the year 1856 was 1922, 2s2, which cost
US 81, 559, Osl; this, will add, in casks
The amount in bottles was 81 ,605 399 In the same
year the amount paid for brandies cordias, ale and
porter imported, was $7,s769s2 The culture of
the grape with us will in ten years decrease that
amount one-half at least
The vine culture is the source of immense profit
to Europe. Official statistics give the wine produc
ton of France amounting TO 500, 900 600 gallons
annually, valued at 800, OOO, 600. or twelve and
naiI Genus per galiOn, OF TWO anu nan cents per
bottle. The prevalence of the disease of the grapes
for some years past has diminished the quantity and
augmented the price, but it is reported that this
years harvest is expected to be equal to that of the
best previous years.
The Patent Office Report of 1855 states that the
yield in series of years from vineyards Gin
cnnati favoraby situated and well cultivated is es-
timated at 800 gallons per acre; that the average
price is 81 to 81 rs per gallon and the cost of labor
from $50 tc $50; that some of the best vineyards
produced in 1858 from 800 to 900 gallons per acre.
which, however, was unusual. The cultivation of
the grape recommends itself to our farmers, not only
because it is lucrative in ITSELF but especially be-
cause it may be pursued part of ordinary farm
ing thus requiring but little additional labor and
because the lands on the hill sides, which are best
suited to it, are generally of for other pur-
poses.