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left nie again and the bad man came and made poor grapi drop and ,-hut up. 

 Tears again, and I looket out for a new Emigrant, lona, Diana, Deleware, 

 Herbemont, Virgin! and others came and promissed thanks for my work 

 and kind attentions. The Herbamont was a Spainiard and cut not stand the 

 climat, dit not pay his board and left me. The Delaware took first the itsh 

 from the Clinton, tore up there nice Dolly Yarding and became as nacked 

 as Adam in the Paradise and offered me the little grapi for vinegar. The 

 lona and Diana played Mama Catawba on me, but the Norton Virginia 

 shuk hands mit me and said, " I will stay mit you til Saint John blowes 

 his horn ; as I am not fit on the tables of the rich you can put me in the 

 vat." But the horn of St John soundet here and poor grapi most go like 

 Melican man make go the Chinee. 



Now what was the cause of all my lost hopes ? The grape ret my friends. 

 And as an old radical physician I have tried hard to find and remove the 

 cause, and " I took the cow by the tail." I went down in the ground and ex- 

 amined the roots and the soil. My gronds are closely underlaid mit hard 

 clay and the main roots went down 2 to 4 ft deep in this clay and took cold, dit 

 not find the limestone or gravel it seeket and needet. Cutting the roots I 

 found them nearly petrifiet the outside bark of the roots woody and rotten 

 and unable to transport the sap. This is not so in California, part of Kansas 

 and other places with a lime stone bottom. I then wrote an essay on a new 

 system of grape culture, but being a "Dutchman" and dit not give my 

 pleas a larger spreat the system died ; that is now 15 years. My plan was 

 to renew without the disturbance of the vineyard by layering every 2 years 

 to the distant of 4 feet a new vineyard and chop the old vines out. My trial 

 was a good one. But I quittet the vineyard bussiness for 6 yers till old love 

 brought me back with new vigor and on a larger scale than ever before. 



My experiments grow with my old age, and since the new discoveries of 

 Bacterias, Baccilles, etc , I begun a npw studio in vinticulture. I find that 

 the deseased dropped berris contain the devil griijje rot and depositet the 

 same in the grond near the vines and when liie right 



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are given the Bacterias begin there destruction a new. The best remedy is 

 to pick up all the rotten berries and destroy them in carbolic acid water. 

 For the Mildew Parasites or Baccilles I reconiend the more powerfull arsenic 

 water applied before the fruit coUers; if no rain followes after the ripening 

 1 recoment to sprinkle the grapes a few days or a week before picking. 

 Now my wise frients, please give this matter your attention. ^ 



Noiv the Grape Louse 



Phylt.cem as the close of my epistel Twenty years ago when the desease 

 brook out in France I gave this matter an earnest thought; and as I have 

 relessed many people of lise with quicksilver salve the unguentum mercurialix 

 (that sounds better in Latin and the apothecarist charges 100 per cent more 



