Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-09-23
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From the Southern CultiSator. =
GRAPE GR0WING AND WINE MAKING MADE EASY

The attention of all our readers, who desire to
participate in the pleasures ana profits OF Vlne-
yard culture in the South is called to the excel
lent treatise of A. DeCaradeuc, Esq, in the
present number Like very many others, we
heretofore been deferred from entering largely
into the Culture OF the Vine, by fear of the cx-
peuse and difficulty attending it. We have been
taught tc look upon the production Of good
Wine in the South, as exceedingly prohlematical.
No one doubted the capacity Of our sunny cline
for the growth Of the grape; "but'-the max
ing of good wine atterwards-there lay the diff
Guilty! Well, that difficulty has vanshed-thc
mystery is solved granite laboratories and
deep cellars are perhaps, well enough in their
way, but By no means Indispensable; and here
after, any man may plant his Vineyard with the
same certainty Of being able to make largely
paying crop Of good wine, that he would feel OF
making bread from his corn or wheat field.
We have recently made two visits to the vine
wards of DR.. Mcdonald, and our correspondent,
Mr.. DeCaradcuc. We have inquired minutely
into their systems OF planting and culturc-we
have examined their soils, locations and aspects
have eaten their grapes, end drank their wines.
of various fayors and qualities-but all pGrc,
inyigorating, and vastly superior to the foreign
trash for which We pay so dearly. We have, (so
far as our briet time would perlnit) fami!iarzet!
ourselves with their processes 1or making these
wines, and with all the advantages and disad-
vantages of the business and the result Is, o
deliberate conviction that the FteiI Culture Of
tic Grape, as practiscd BY these gentlemen, is
one OF the Sayr.; and atoSs muteIut;re 6yt;!ictcS
Of rurat Industry. and destined in very te"
years to become O.: great and significant impor-
tance to the South There are thousands; OF
acres of uplan;lS all around MS, too poor !or
either cotton or cu:a, that will pay from $500 t.
$500 per acre in wine the third or fourth year
from planting, and which, II properly mana&;ed
outset. Much Of this land c2n lie purchased
for q mere triGe, five to ten dollars per acre,
and if it will pay even two Hundred dollars pei
acre in wine, otter the third year, what Other
field crop now cultivated in the South can begin
to compare with It? The experience OF thI
winters in OHIO, shows ali average yield Of tout
hundred s,:llons so the acre, and that we can
safely count on oqualing this, need not b'
doubted.
In fact, the testimony OF both the gentlemen
above alluded TO, (who have had sixteen year
experience,) as wei! as the recent successes
Mr. Itxt, and many others, justiEes Us IN CLAIM
ing for the Culture of the Grape Ear more a.;en
ton than it has ever yet received in the South
and of earnestly urging it upon the notice o
our subscribers.
we can fully endorse from our own knowledge
all the statements Of Nr. DeCaradcuc, and com
mend his article to the special attention Of Oh
readers We do not claim perfection for hi
system-nor does Mr.. c. himsele-hut we *
contend that it is the cheapest, easiest, and 81
rest way of proGtably cultivatiug tie Vine, yc
offered to the public.