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that go out if it is not the fact. I would say that the grape 

 looked very much as I saw it the previous season in Ohio, on 

 the Catawba, and they told me that was the grape rot. It comes 

 on at first in little spots about the size of a pin head, and after 

 that rings form which show very distinctly for a day or two and 

 after that it looks very much like a sunburnt fruit, and the grape 

 soon drops off. A Mr. Hartman, of Houston County, told me 

 that they lost at least one-third of theirs, and I understood that 

 they had the same thing at Brownsville. 



Mr. Underwood. I would like to ask whether it is likely to 

 attack one variety more than another ? 



Mr. Harris. I think it is likely to attack the Catawba first 

 and the Concord next. 



Mr. Underwood. I am not quite certain as to what it is; but 

 it has affected the Janesville, and that is the first I ever saw of 

 it. I spent considerable time in looking at works on grape cul- 

 ture to see if I could find something that would exactly describe 

 it, so that I could get a correct diagnosis of the trouble in hand, 

 but did not find anything that would satisfy me exactly as to 

 what was the matter; but it was very closely allied to what you 

 have described, that is, commencing with a little spot and work- 

 ing in a circle. I don't think in the first j)lace on our grapes it 

 was larger than half a ten-cent piece. That was perhaps in the 

 most aggravated cases. Only that one variety ^as attacked with 

 us this year. 



Mr. Harris. I was not on any plantations where they were 

 growing the Janesville. 



Mr. P. M. Gideon. Two or three of ours were entirely swept 

 out by it, but the Janesville came out the best of all. 



Mr. M. Pearce. Did that resemble the sunburn, or was it 

 rot? 



Mr. Harris. It resembles a sunburn. 



Mr. Pearce. I don't know, I had it on Rodgers' ISTo. 4; there 

 were a few grapes affected on a bunch and the rest would be free 

 from it. I looked at it a good deal and studied the matter over, 

 and concluded it was a sunburn, and then concluded it was not. 

 I noticed it was on Rodgers' Ko. 4, but it was not very bad. I 

 found the other grapes were not affected. It didn't seem to be a 

 contagion. It seems to me to be something like what I would 

 call a sunburn. It was something new to me and I didn't know 

 that anyone else had it, and didn't know that that variety was a 

 subject to something of that kind; but it was seldom that a 

 whole bunch was affected. 



