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Mr. Rohards — Has tried the bag business; covered fifty bunches 

 and found that where covered they did weW. 



Mr. Workman^ of Indiana — Says they have tried bagging grapes, 

 and find it success ; finds they do better upan high trellis or trees, and 

 are a success. 



Mr. Van Deman — Finds this bagging is not a complete success. 



Mr. Galloway — Thinks the spores do not enter unless the grapes 

 are punctured. 



Mr. Gano — Found at St. Joe a great number of excellent new va- 

 lieties, and they succeed much better there than here. 



Mr. Workman — They will keep much longer than if not sacked. 



S. Miller — Finds the Worden better than the Concord. 



T. W. Gaunt — Thinks we need very high and dr^^ ground; need 

 underdraining, he thinks. 



Prof. Tracy — Says it will do no good. 



Mr. Miller — Has the highest land in the county of Montgomery, 

 and grapes rot the worst. 



N. F. Marry — High training is the only success in his county. 



3fr. Van Deman — This rot is sporadic and in the atmosphere, and 

 no cultivation will stop it. 



E. P. Henry — Thinks all these men are correct in their views, and 

 this spread is through the air, but that it will not spread very far in 

 one season, but if one vine is affected it will soon spread to all in the 

 vineyard. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SMALL FRUITS. 



BY SAMUEL MILLER, OF BLUFFTON. 



X. A. Goodman., Secretary of the Missouri Horticultural Society: 



As my attendance at the annual meeting is uncertain, I will at 



least give a report on the small fruits. Have written to the other 



members of my committee to send me theirs or to send direct to you. 

 As usual the strawberry comes first, and as there was but a poor 



show here the past season, I have not much to tell about them. 



