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to have healthy vines, we must protect them, not only from the many 

 fungous diseases, but also from the ever increasing insect pests which now 

 threaten their entire destruction. The use of the Bordeaux mixture in 

 connection with the arsenites has proved so wonderfully effective in com- 

 batting these enemies of the vine that it seems almost superfluous to 

 mention it in this connection. 



I would simply say, to those who have had no experience, that the 

 formula which contains four pounds of sulphate of copper, four pounds 

 of stone lime to which is added fifty gallons of water, has proved very 

 satisfactory in preventing the black-rot upon the vines and grapes. For 

 the destruction of insects it will be necessary to add one fourth pound of 

 Paris green or London purple to the above mixture. I used the above 

 preparation upon my plum trees the past season and it proved an efficient 

 remedy against the curculio. Many cases were noted where plums had 

 been stung several times without the least apparent injury. 



VARIETIES FOR MICHIGAN. 



If I should be asked to name a list of varieties for Michigan, from 

 among the old varieties, my choice would be for the white, Colerain, 

 Moore's Diamond, and Niagara; for the black, Moore's Early, Worden, 

 and Concord. With regard to the newer varieties, I can not speak from 

 actual experience, only so far as my own seedlings are concerned, two 

 varieties of which I have placed upon exhibition, hoping that they will 

 receive your impartial verdict. 



AS TO THE FUTURE. 



The question might properly be asked, what are our prospects in the 

 future? Reports have come from all our grape-growing districts, stating 

 that grapes were sold during the past season much below cost in many 

 instances. I saw large quantities of Concord grapes sold in Battle Creek 

 the past season for one cent per pound. How are we going to obtaia better 

 prices in the future? Simply by raising better varieties that can be put 

 into the market either before or after the Concords are out of the way. 

 It seems to me that new varieties of grape, which shall be superior in 

 many respects to our best old varieties, would be valuable acquisitions. 

 Although we have made rapid advancement during the last fifty years, 

 perfection has not been reached. I have no doubt, from present indi- 

 cations, that our hopes will be realized in the near future. Let us take 

 new courage from our past achievements and persevere until success 

 crowns our efforts. 



SPRAYING MIXTURE. 



Take four pounds sulphate of copper and four pounds stone lime; mix 

 the lime with fifty gallons of water; pulverize and dissolve the copper 

 sulphate and put it into a barrel; fill it half full of water. In another 

 vessel slake the four pounds of lime in four or six gallons of water. 

 Pour the lime water slowly into the barrel, straining it through some 

 coarse canvass. If you wish to apply this as an insecticide, add one 

 fourth pound of Paris green or London purple, after which add the 

 remainder of the water. 



