THE STATE FAIR— 1873. 179 



Plate Light Colored Foreign Grapes — First premium, A. Sigler, Adrian, $1. 



Plate Dark Colored Foreign Grages — First premium, A. Sigler, Adrian, $1 ; 

 second premium, T. F. Kleeman, Saugatuck, Allegan county, 50c. 



Plate Black Hamburg — First premium, A. Sigler, Adrian, $1. 



Plate Muscat of Alexandria — First premium, A. Sigler, Adrian, $1. 



Plate of Native Grapes of recent origin — First premium, C. Engle, Paw Paw, 

 the Salem; second premium, J. TV. Humphrey, Plymouth, the Wilder. 



Committee. — S. S. Lacy, Marshall ; Thomas Wilde, Berlin ; C. Chilson, Battle 

 Creek. 



RemarJcs of the Committee on Grapes. — To secure anything like a fair and 

 impartial test and judgment the committee would recommend that specimens 

 competing in each class be arranged in a group, each class by itself. The col- 

 lections of Messrs. Husted & Bradfield, not inferior to any on exhibition, were 

 not entered to compete. But the specimens on exhibition certainly entitle the 

 collection of each to special mention as comprising all the standard varieties 

 in great profusion and perfection. The committee desire to make honorable 

 mention of each. 



There were also on exhibition collections of most delicious grapes from the 

 grapery of CapL E. B, Ward, consisting of fine specimens of Black Hamburg, 

 Chasselas, Muscat of Alexandria, White Frontignan, AVhite Sweetwater, etc., 

 that showed great skill and success in their cultivation. 



The committee award the first premium in Class 3, greatest number of vari- 

 eties, to A. S. Howard, of Allegan, whose fruit was of fine growth and well 

 ripened. The first on exhibition is as follows : lona, Agawam, Crevelling, 

 N. Muscadine, Catawba, Israella, Hartford Prolific, Rebecca, Isabella, Rogers' 19, 

 'Salem, Wilder, Concord, Delaware, Diana, and Allen's Hybrid. 



The collection of the Pointe Aux Peaux Wine Company was scarcely inferior 

 in quality, but was confined more especially to wine-producing grapes of well 

 ripened specimens, indicating a climate favorable to the production of the 

 wine grape. 



The committee have no sufficient data to determine the keeping qualities of 

 the Diana and Wilder, but would incline to the opinion that the Diana has 

 the preference. 



The well ripened specimens of so many superior grapes, representing so 

 many diflerent localities, from Wayne and Monroe counties on the east, from 

 Calhoun, Kalamazoo, Van Buren, and Kent, centrally located, and the whole 

 range of the eastern shore of Lake Michigan from Traverse City to South 

 Haven, answers the question, as to whether Michigan is a grape State, so con- 

 clusively as to plaice that question practically at rest. 



The exhibition of well ripened, delicious grapes, is a subject of great gratifi- 

 cation to all, and justifies the most sanguine anticipations as to the future of 

 this most interesting branch of industry. 



The committee also desire to mention the specimens of foreign grapes exhib- 

 ited by Mr, Sigler, of Adrian, as specimens showing great skill and success in 

 their cultivation. 



All of which is respectfullv submitted. 



SAMUEL S. LACEY, 



CHESTER CHILSOX, 



THOS. WILDE. 



Note. — A well ripened specimen of Isabella, by G. W. Dickinson, of Grand Rapids, is 

 •worthy of notice. 



