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ject might be combined into a single full year course of viticulture. It would 

 be best to take up the work as it actually takes place in the vineyard. 

 The subject matter would follow about the following sequence: 



a. The ripening and gathering of grapes, the means of testing ripeness 

 and the transportation and conservation of grapes. Study of the fruiting 

 habit of the grape. Some study of pests and diseases. 



b. Varieties of wine, table and raisin grapes. 



c. The marketing and handling of table grapes. 



d. The making of raisins, marketing and handling of the same. 



e. The principles of wine making, the mixing and blending of grapes, 

 f. The winery, general plan, crushing, steming and conveying of grapes, 



fermenting and storage vats. 



g. Red and white wines, areation, temperature, and the extraction of 

 color, tanin and body. 



h. The pruning of the grapevine. 



i. Cuttings, bench grafting, field grafting, and the planting of cuttings 

 and rooted vines. 



j. The soil, preparation, cultivation and fertilization. Laying out the 

 vineyard. 



k. The Phylloxera and resistant stocks. 



1. Protection from frosts. Green manuring and suckering of vines. 



m. A repetition of the study of the fruiting habits of the grape and the 

 subject of pollination. 



n. Budding and field grafting. 



o. Pests and diseases. 



It is hard to write out an exact and full outline, for so many different 

 parts of the subject interlap and can be studied and illustrated at the same 

 time in the vineyards. 



The students should be continually taken to the vineyards to study the 

 subject at first hand as well as from text-books. 



DISCUSSION 



Discussion of Mr. Stoll's paper was called for by the President. 



Mr. Hiram Dewey, of New York City: "In reference to Mr. Stoll's sug- 

 gestions regarding the moving pictures, I want to say that at the banquet of 

 the American Wine Growers Association at the Waldorf-Astoria last winter 

 in New York, one of the gentlemen who sat next to me, who were the presi- 

 dent and vice-president of the Board of Education of the City of New York, 

 said, 'This is the most entertaining banquet I have ever attended in my life,' 

 after the showing of the vineyard scenes in California and in other parts of 

 the United States. I wish you would let us have for our meeting and banquet 

 next winter, other reels of vineyard scenes in California. I want to encourage 

 you in California in regard to what Mr. Stoll said in relation to the part the 

 moving pictures play, and I believe they should be increased and shown to 

 the people all over the country as nothing will impress them so strongly." 



President Alwood announced the death of Mr. Henry Lachman, of Mission 

 San Jose, California, a few days previously. The paper which Mr. Lachman 

 had prepared was read by Mr. Sophus Federspiel of San Francisco. 



