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best efforts to have this brandy used for fortifying wines put under the same 

 regulations as denatured alcohol. The brandy put into sweet wine is not to 

 make it more valuable, but simply to satisfy the demands of the public. 

 Some people like a dry wine, but some cannot drink it and prefer a sweet 

 wine. A great percentage of the sweet wine manufactured is used in the 

 preparation of medicines. 



"Why should we be taxed any more than the man who uses alcohol in 

 the manufacture of other articles? 



"I assure you that I shall interest our Eastern legislators as much as it 

 is in my power to do and in connection with those who are associated with 

 me to bring about a rational change in this law during the next session of 

 Congress." 



President Alwood: "I have had considerable experience before legis- 

 lative bodies. I have been successful sometimes, and sometimes not. You 

 should be able to make it perfectly clear to a committee just what you want 

 when you go to Washington. If you want to use the spirits for preserving 

 the sugar in sweet wines, make them understand it. Get the matter before 

 them simply and plainly, and I have no doubt you will achieve your object." 



The Congress adjourned at 12:30 to meet again at half-past one o'clock. 



AFTERNOON SESSION, JULY 12, 1915. 

 RESISTANT VINES. 



By GEORGE C. HUSMANN, 



Pomologist In Charge of Viticultural Investigations, United States 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



The subject "Resistant Vines" was assigned me. I infer Phylloxera 

 Resistant Vines was implied and will treat it thus. In the Vinifera 

 regions of this country the expression "Resistant Vines" has so long been 

 thus applied that unless a qualifying term is used it is understood to mean 

 "Phylloxera Resistant Vines". In the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture the expression has a broader meaning, as it has in other countries. 



Thus, for instance, from 1858 to 1862, when the destruction of the vine- 

 yards of France was feared through Oidium for which there was then no 

 remedy known, American Euvitis varieties were imported to see if they 

 would resist it. This was before anything relative to their resistance to 

 phylloxera was known. 



Records show that cuttings of Catawba and Isabella were sent to France 

 as early as 1825, but no rooted plants of American Euvitis were sent until 

 1858 to 1863, and then, by a singular coincidence, introductions of such were 

 made about the same time into France, Germany, Portugal, England and 

 Ireland. It is more than likely that phylloxera was introduced on some of 

 these vines. 



