54 ANNUAL REPORT. 



Mr. C. E. iSliaiinou. Two years ago my grapes were affected; 

 the past year I saw but very little syinptonis of it. It 

 seems to me it must be owing to the difference in the climate 

 this year. I had a few on the Elvira and a white grape, and 

 some of the Janesville, that showed signs of it, but my grapes 

 were much better than for the previous season. 



Mr. Harris. If it was the rot it would be worse some seasons 

 than others. 



Mr. Pearce. I don't think it was the rot. From what I saw 

 I do not believe it is that. 



Mr. Harris. The grai)es dry up and tui'n black, and are 

 worthless. 



Mr. Pearce. They would not ripen; they hardened uj). 



Mr. Underwood. That hardening up is something that they 

 have on the Eodgers every year, but it is entirely different from 

 the rot; this rot is another thing. We never saw this on our 

 vines until this past season. It destroyed three-fourths of oui- 

 grapes. I didn't know of it until the most of the injury was 

 done; it was done before I discovered it. 



Mr. Latham. I know nothing of the rot. I had a little of this 

 trouble with the Ionia and the Brighton, but not as it has been 

 described. I can understand how Mr. Pearce should be led to 

 think he had the rot in his grapes, but I think it was the sun- 

 burn, because M^here the fruit is grown in the shade, and by some 

 accident the shade is withdrawn, the fruit will put on this ap- 

 pearance; and it ruins the fruit. I hare occasionally had a bunch 

 injured in that way by being sunburnt, but have never seen any 

 rot. 



Mr. A. W. Sias. We have a variety we call the Hardy Con 

 necticut; they are a good bearer, but about every other year they 

 are comj)letely ruined by this same thing, whatever it is. We 

 have had the grape destroyed in some places where it was com- 

 I)letely in the shade. I don't think it could be from the ef- 

 fects of the sun. Some years the fruit is good, and then, per- 

 haps, the next year they would be ruined entirely. This is the 

 only variety we have that is affected very much in this manner. 



Mr. Smith. I would like to know of Mr. Shannon, w^ho lives 

 at Granite Falls, on Avhat kind of grcuind his grapes grew that 

 were affected. 



Mr. Shannon. I noticed where the grapes Mere the most af- 

 fected the vines were on ground that was extremely dry. It was 

 protected from wind, so that sometimes it got pretty hot, and it 

 mav have been, as a gentleman over there suggests, sun-scald. 



