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who look to US for a decision, although at the present time, 

 the Concord brings as much as the Delaware, we should in 

 view of the future recommend a grape that will make wine. 

 I differ with gentlemen as to the ease with which we can make 

 a change of varieties by grafting. The Concord is a grape for 

 the million, and if the 20,000 that are to be planted this year 

 are to be Concords, and it produces a quantity that cannot be 

 marketed profitably, it is important that we should look ahead. 

 You give people a Concord grape alone, and it is all right; but 

 place beside them the lona or Delaware, and people will prefer 

 them to the Concord and the Concord will then be a drug in 

 the market. This year Catawbas sold at a good price. I saw 

 crates of Concords thrown into the river, having rotted for 

 want of a demand for them. 



Mr. Suttle — I was offered 25 cents for my Concords last year. 

 The Delaware is the best native grape we have, and it can be 

 grown as many tons to the acre as the Concord, but it will be 

 years before it will be as good as the Concord in our markets, 

 Mr. Husted — The million need grapes, and the Concord is 

 the only one we are certain of. I have found even ladies that 

 prefer the Concord to the Delaware as a table grape. The 

 Concord is good for canning, and also for jelly. We can use 

 up thousands and millions of bushels. The Concord makes a 

 fair wine. We can raise 4 pounds of Concords to one of 

 Delaware. 



Mr. A. T. Lindermann— The price that the Concord brings 

 is on account of its fair exterior, and because people are not 

 well posted upon the interior of the two grapes. The best 

 quality will win in the end in the market of the future. 



Mr. Husted— We should make grapes abundant for the mil- 

 lion before we fix on fancy kinds. 



Mr. Linderman— I have lived where they raise grapes by 

 the ton. The Clinton, and Concord, and Isabella were not 

 new grapes, and they went begging for a market, while those 

 who had quantities of Delawares sold none for less than 15 

 cents, while the others were down to four and six cents a 



