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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Several hundred tons of grapes were lately seized by the New York health 

 authorities, and ordered to be thrown into the bay. This was done because 

 they claimed that the grapes were poisoned with copper, that spraying with Bor- 

 deaux mixture, which had been so widely practiced for the destruction of the 

 mildew, had left a sufficient amount of poison upon the grapes to make them 

 injurious, if not dangerous, to the health of the consumers. Of course, this 

 must be a great loss to the shippers, and a serious consideration to all growers, 

 who, under such circumstances, must either suffer the loss of their whole crop 

 through mildew, or else risk its seizure after being shipped to the town. Natur- 

 ally enough, the whole matter was referred to the Department of Agriculture, 

 which had advised the growers to use the Bordeaux mixture for mildew, and 

 which would, therefore, be in a measure responsible for any consequent misfor- 

 tune to those who had followed its advice. Samples of the affected grapes, 

 which had been seized by the New York authorities, were subjected to an official 

 analysis, and the result set the whole matter at rest, so far as any danger result- 

 ant from spraying with copper is concerned, and shows how over-fastidious the 

 health officers of New York City were in the execution of their duties. It was 

 found that so weak was the solution of copper, and so little was the percentage 

 which remained upon the skins of the grapes after spraying, that a person would 

 require to eat at one time a ton of grapes, eight times sprayed with the mixture, 

 before he would take into his system enough to constitute a single poisonous dose ! 



John M. Samuels, who has been appointed Chief of the Bureau of Horti- 

 culture of the World's Coiumbian Exposition, is a Kentuckian, and was born in 

 1 848. His father was a nurseryman, and when the son became of age, he set up 



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