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the competition of our brother growers in other states, there is 

 no doubt a good business awaiting us in that Hne. I beHeve 

 that we have acres of land that grapes like the Niagara and the 

 Concord can be grown on at moderate cost, and I beHeve that 

 they will find such a ready market at home that it will make 

 them profitable grapes to be grown for that purpose. I think it 

 is a good business opening for us." 



The President: "I would say that I had three or four 

 acres of grapes this last year, and practically supplied the New 

 Britain market with grapes. They all pronounced them the 

 best in the market. There was a car-load of western grapes 

 came in there, but they had to send them out because they 

 could not sell them." 



Mr. Hale: "Were they sold at a fair profit to yourself?" 



The President: "Yes." 



Mr. a. Bernhard: "Mr. Hale is right when he states 

 that in late years grape-growing has experienced much change, 

 so that you will find a ready market for the kind he speaks 

 about. I think it is to our advantage though, instead of planting 

 our common varieties like the Concord and the Niagara, and 

 others like them, to start in with varieties which would make 

 better juice, and obtain a higher price on the market. In New 

 York state they have varieties which run up to $60 and even 

 $100 a ton, and they have one that they get as much as $175 a 

 ton for. If we can grow some of those varieties our grapes will 

 bring us in a good deal more money." 



The President: "We will close this discussion now, and 

 will have a lantern slide exhibition and lecture by Prof. M. B. 

 Waite, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, on 

 "Some Diseases of Orchard Fruits." 



SOME DISEASES OF ORCHARD FRUITS 



PROFESSOR M. B. WAITE 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



The first trouble I will call your attention to is the peach 

 yellows again. This tree in the photograph is a Delaware 

 peach tree, and has one of the first symptoms of the yellows 

 that appear, — this pushing sprout. It shows very little in the 



