The Bran Question. 



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THE BEAX QUESTION 



'' Your Kankakee Co., Illinois, corres- 

 pondent desires me to give your read- 

 ers "light ;" and, as he closes with — 

 '' Yours, for truth and progress," I am 

 led to believe that he is sincere in his 

 request for information, were it not for 

 his very untimely advice to read the 

 xirticle of Mrs. Daviess — which I had 

 read and admired some hours before he 

 could have done so. 



Yet, we propose to treat him with 

 courtesy and respect in our answers, 

 and to ask of you the indulgence of a 

 large space, to fully explain the "situa- 

 tion," trusting yoiu* readers ma^^ be 

 benefited by the trial-tests Ozark has 

 received : 



"Would he not have Rogers continue 

 his experiments?" 



Answe?: — No sir ; not an hour. The 

 JDastard hybrids sent to the world in so 

 jnan}^ numbers, are mostly a worthless 

 class. Fruit growers have been de- 

 ceived — they had been growing No. 22, 

 bought at 50 cents to -SI apiece. Salem 

 flamed upon the public in beautiful size 

 and form [on paper) ; all safe mea bought 

 at $3 to 85 each. Several gentlemen 

 among these hills have fruited it, and 

 lo ! what a supernatural change ! The 

 ■climate is all at fault — it was simply 

 No. 22. 



"Can he spare the Concord grape or 

 its originator?" 



Aiiswer. — No, sir, we cannot. The 

 Concord is our grape — it is a success. 

 It did not start with a flourish of his- 

 toric excellencies that would shame a 

 Tokay or White Nice. It became the 

 people's grape because it had health, 

 virtue, and manhood. 



BEAN BEE AD AND HUMBUGS. 



It is the new regime, theTriunes, and 

 the grapes reared under "educated 

 tastes," that we wish our Western 

 friends to touch lightly. It is of men 

 who have "educated" their "tastes" 

 down to so fine a point to discover such 

 rare qualities in their grapes, who must 

 masticate bran-bread, with no pork or 

 beef, and wear a cabbage-leaf night- 

 cap — or their perfection could not be 

 reached. 



We are with your correspondent from 

 Illinois, in the advice to go slow with 

 all new fruits. "We say of Walter, 

 Eumelan, Eureka, Weehawken, Augh- 

 wick. Union, Kansas, Tekama, Lacon, 

 Mount Lebanon, Nonantum, Dana, Mar- 

 tha, Miles, Rentz, Sherman, Black 

 Hawk, Christine, Lyman, Diana Ham- 

 burgh, and many otliers we are testing 

 — but only testing — buy very sparingly 

 of these until they are known to he 

 worthy — go slow. 



That our correspondent may see that 

 Ozark has good cause for cursing the 

 majorit}' of the new and " educated " 

 grapes, Ave tell him we have thoroughly 

 and understandingly tested all the 

 varieties named below, within the past 

 twelve 3ears ; that every one of them 

 came to me with the recommend of 

 some of your great grape growers in the 

 East: Anna, Allen's Hj'brid, August 

 Pioneer, Albino, Aiken, Adirondac, 

 Bland, Burgundy, Black Jul}', Blood's 

 White and Black, Brinckle, Canby's 

 August, Catharine, Cassldy, Clara, 

 Cuyahoga, Elizabeth, Empire, Emily, 

 Franklin, Framingham, Garber's Seed- 

 ling, Golden Clinton, Ilenshaw, Hyde's 



