THE GRAPE IN KANSAS. 95 



J. L. WILLIAMS: Mr. Gano made an assertion about tfye Worden which is 

 not carried out in our part of the state around Kansas City where they are prop- 

 erly cultivated. I trimmed 500 Worden vines last year and they had a good crop 

 of grapes on them this summer, and there was never a finer crop of grapes raised. 



A. CHANDLER, Wyandotte county: That shows that they were not Wordens, 



J. L. WILLIAMS : I am sure that they were Wordens. 



GEORGE HOLSINGER, Wyandotte county: At the Chillicothe meeting it was- 

 asked if anybody had had any experience with the Hicks. I got up and said 

 they froze, to the ground. Mr. Wallis (the disseminator) came down to my home 

 place for the purpose of killing a man about my size, but he found that others 

 had the same experience. 



F. W. DIXON, Jackson county: I have a Hicks vine. It did not kill to the 

 ground, but it was in a protected place. It was planted a year ago last spring, 

 and this year it had one lonely bunch of four grapes. I would not like to say 

 anything for or against it. I hope it may bear more grapes next year. 



SECRETARY BARNES: Among the correspondents of this office, C. C. Cook, of 

 Bradford, Wabaunsee county, wrote me that in the spring of 1899 he planted one 

 McPike grape-vine ; that in the spring of 1900 he trimmed it to one arm, and 

 from it broke forth fourteen shoots, and on July 28 (when he wrote) it was carry- 

 ing forty fine bunches of fruit. 



A. CHANDLER: Has any one tried the dust method of spraying grapes for 

 rot, and what have the results been ? 



EDWIN TAYLOR: Can you not answer your own question ? Do you know any 

 one who has tried it ? 



A. CHANDLER: Not to any extent. I would like to inquire the chemical 

 nature of the mixture of lime and Paris green used; whether they combine or 

 keep intact ? 



MR. BANKS: I cannot say much about it only on a small scale. We haye a 

 dust pump used for small fruits. I cannot say how it would work on a larger 

 scale. It can be turned very easily and rapidly and throws fine dust with great 

 force ; I think a larger one would work as well. 



EDWIN TAYLOR : Did it do your fruit any good ? 



MR. BANKS: It kills the fungus. I do not know that it will kill insects unless 

 you use insect-powder. It is good for mildew. 



EDWIN TAYLOR : Did you ever use a liquid spray ? 



MR. BANKS: I never used a liquid spray in the greenhouse. 



A. CHANDLER: We have a chemical change and a new compound forms as- 

 soon as water is applied ; but I do not think that [dry ] lime would act on the dry 

 poisons that are put with it. Dust is so much easier than liquid to apply; yet 

 the poison must be in solution before it can kill, and perhaps the dust that 

 lights on the leaves is combined with the dew that falls during the night. 



CHAS. HARRINGTON: In our county~(Labette) we tried the dust spray. I 

 think that the best sprayer is the Automatic, which allows you the free use of 

 both hands. They are made by several companies. 



MR. CHANDLRR : Dust spray can be used wherever liquid can. When the 

 wind is right for liquid spray it is right for dust spray. In this solution you mix: 

 your Bordeaux and add the lime. Prepare the Bordeaux mixture just as you 

 would for liquid spray. Then add the lime and use it, and I am certain from what 

 I have seen that you can use dust whenever liquid can be used. I am anxious to- 

 know if it will be a success; perhaps it has not been sufficiently tried. 



G. W. MAFFET : Do you mean air-slaked lime ? 



