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all drawn out for the cellar ; there was the vineyard itself, -which 

 would be in full bearing next year, and the place would be ready 

 for the teaching of scholars from the beginning to the end of 

 viticulture. The question was, were the Government, after 

 having laid out £2,000 on the place, going to leave it to become 

 a white elephant, or were they going to get it into such order a's 

 to make it of value to the Viticultural Board? If schools were to 

 be established there should be one to show all the others how to 

 manage. He would move — " That in the opinion of this Confer- 

 ence the G-overnment should be urged to proceed with the cellar 

 at Rutherglen." 



The President of the Rutherglen Association supported the 

 motion. There was an urgent necessity for having the school 

 established. In the matter of having the American stock the 

 school would be of advantage in making experiments in reference 

 to the different kinds of resisting stocks to suit the various 

 kinds of grape. That would be the place where those 

 experiments ought to be tried. It was in the schools where 

 those tilings should be done, and then the information dis- 

 seminated among all the wine-growers. The schools would be 

 the places to get the practical experience of others, and that 

 was a thing the want of which had been a serious drawback 

 to the industry. If the schools had been established years 

 ago the vignerons would have been fui-ther ahead than they 

 were now. Then the schools would be the places where it would 

 1)6 known where to find the proper kinds of grapes. Sometimes 

 on going to one man's vineyard he would say he has one kind of 

 grape, and then when another vineyard was visited the same grape 

 wns quite different, but at the schools people could go and get the 

 true varieties. 



Mr. West thought that this was virtually work for the new 

 Board. Principles had been laid down for the guidance of the 

 Board, and one of those was the establishment of an experimental 

 station, and he thought the matter could be left to the Board. 

 Having organized the new body it might safely be left to them to 

 carry out the work. 



Mr. P. DE Castella said, as a member of the old Board, he 

 had been three times to Eutherglen to see the school, and he sup- 

 posed if he went a fourth time it would be still in the same 

 position. The idea now was to save a year. Last year there was 

 only £30 taken, and this year it was £40. The school was there 

 liow, and the old Board was ready to do the work, and it was a 

 pity to lose another season. 



' Mr. West presumed that the old Board carried on till the new 

 Board was appointed. 



Mr. Gaughet asked whether the old Board were to get no 

 credit for what it had done. They wanted to point out that the 



