In the following table, column one, 100 is assumed as the product 

 of normal uugirdled vines. lu columns two and three appear the 

 percentages of the half-girdled and the full-girdled vines respectively. 

 The difference between the total fruit and that denominated first-class 

 consisted of small and fragmentary clusters which could be disposed 

 of only at inferior prices. The quality of all was satisfactory. 



Uugirdled. Half-girdled. Full-girdled. 



Total fruit, 100 83 62 



First class, 100 77 59 



Diameter of new canes, 100 97 87 



Three years ago, when I commenced this series of experiments my 

 object was to ascertain if the operation of girdling could be recom- 

 mended for this climate. It seems to me that the results as here 

 given go to show that wherever a grape will ripen fairly by the 

 natural processes, girdling is a complete draft upon the future with- 

 out prospect of means to pay it through the gains of the present. 

 With me the increase in weight of the fruit was more than offset by 

 the waste through split beriies and the consequent extra time required 

 to prepare the whole for market. There was no gain in price from 

 the ten days' earliness. The Concord does not reach market soon 

 enough to command early prices. If, therefore, there is nothing 

 realized from the operation during the same season, and there follows 

 a loss of nearly or quite fifty per cent in the value of the product in 

 the succeeding one, then it can onl}- be commended for situations 

 where it is impossible to ripen the fruit naturally, and where after 

 one season's girdling, the vines may be allowed a year in which to 

 recover through generous feeding and entire abstinence from fruiting. 



THE AMOUNT OF COPPER ON SPRAYED FRUIT. 



During the early autumn the board of health of New York city 

 condemned several carloads of grapes as dangerous to the public 

 health and ordered them destroyed, because they were slightly dis- 

 figured with the Bordeaux mixture which had been used by the 

 growers to prevent mildew and rot. This caused a " scare" among 

 the dealers and consumers and a serious fall in prices, which affected 

 the market more or less for the rest of the season. To determine 

 positively the amount of copper adhering to the grapes grown in the 

 college vineyard, two lots of fruit, of ten pounds each, were selected, 



