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the better reasons seem to favor the production and use of the red wine in 
preference to the white where it can be done. The testimony we have obtained 
from the best sources of knowledge on this point amount to this: 
Red wine is much less heating, much more tonic, much less exciting to the 
nerves, much less intoxicating to the brain, and its effects are more enduring 
than white wine. As we of America are, by reason of our dry climate, as well 
as from moral causes, more. excitable, both from brain. and nerve, than the 
Europeans, and at the same time much oftener in need of tonie diet, and 
our summer heats are so much more intense than in the wine latitudes of 
urope, all the above considerations should have peculiar weight with us. 
So highly, at least, do the French people appreciate them that they con- 
same now little white wine, and it bears always a lower price in the market 
than red of equal quality. ‘To the general consumption of this drink intelli- 
gent Frenchmen are apt to attribute the fine health of their peasantry, as well 
as their habitual gaiety and habitualtemperance. (The habitual use of whiskey 
has quite another effect.) An American gentleman, for many years residing in 
France, and for a time a professor in one of the universities, afirms that the 
greatest longevity is amoung those people who take red wine three times a day 
and abstain from both tea and coffee. When Americans consult French physi- 
cians, three times in four they are ordered to drink red wine as a habitual bev- 
erage, and one of the commonest daily events among Americans residing in 
Paris is the cure of an obstinate dyspepsia by the same iia remedy, even in 
the unhealthful air of that city. 
The German vineyards have hitherto escaped any very serious ravages from 
the ‘vine disease.” It is met as often as it appears, and successfully combatted 
with sulphur. Three applications are made, the first as soon as the berries have 
grown to be as large as the head of a pin. Early in the day, and before the 
dew is dried off, the flour is sprinkled on the lower surface of the leaves, where 
the moisture causes it to attach. ‘The implement used is a tube of tin, perfor- 
ated with numerous small holes at the lower end, and with a tassel of woolen 
yarn attached to that end. At Rheims we were shown a large vine, trained to 
a wall, one-half of which had been treated as above in the spring of the year 
before and the other half neglected. The latter had, as a consequence, lost all 
of its fruit, and we visited the place and, saw it the following season. It showed 
yellow and falling leaves in July, and very little fruit, while the other portion 
was perfectly healthy, and was loaded with a good crop of fruit. This experi- 
ment was made by a French gentleman, who had recently returned from a long 
sojourn in . America, and visited that country for the purpose of satisfying him- 
self if the sulphur be really a preventive or not against the vine disease, of 
which he had heard so many doubts expressed while in America. 
MARSHALL P. WILDER, 
ALEX. ‘THOMPSON, 
W. J. FLAGG, 
PATRICK BARRY, 
Committee No.9 United States Commission. 
