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The Vine In Bessarabia

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Day
1
Month
October
Year
1886
Copyright
Public Domain
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Although bolh climate and soil in Besarabia are highly favorable to most kinds of cultivation, the mhabitants have hitherto devoted themselvos alrnost exclusively to cereal farming of an extreniely primitive type, wliereby the land is becoming ruinod and exhausted. A total ehange of method and means is the sole remedy for Ihis state of things in agriculture. It is well known that the vine and all orchnrd trees will flourish in the province if cultivated with moderate care aud skill, but these are sadly lackinsr. An improvement eau only be looked for from a rationa! duvelopmcnt of scientifio methods of cultivation and the introduction of a better system of makins wine. These nieasuies are the more desirable since France, which used to supply the wiue markets of the world, has been obliged by the ravages of the phylloxera to diininish her exportaron at the sanie time that she produces an inferior article fabricated frora foreign grapes. The mcasures most ervidently necessary lo enable Bessarabia to enter into competition in the wine trade are the introduetion of the choicer qualities of vine and the construction of storage vaults. Tliis would require capital, which is either not existcnt or very sluggish iu the country. As there is only a superficies of 70,000 acres of vineyarus, wüicn prouuce iiom o.uuu,000 to 10,000,000 vcdros of wine. Some of this is gold at 5 rubíes the vedro, but the ordinary quality is sold tkroughout the province at 1 ruble the vedro. Foreign fabricators have alrcady discovered its utility for the purposes, and large purchases wcre made last year by wine merchants who supply the London market. A vedro eqnals three and a quarter gallons.-

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Ann Arbor Democrat