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course, not only will the actual extirpation of the plague be within the 
bounds of possibility, te there will be the certainty, supposing only 
the minimum results tained, of so thoroughly checking its advance, 
that the future annual expentitste charged upon the country will be 
but a small fraction of the pecuniary interests protecte ted. Such outlay 
will be a sort of premium of insurance a 
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arly inc 
. Stock of sche scit not less than 3,000,000/. sterling. And it may be 
f r pointed out that the market value of landed property in the 
wine-producing dum depends not so much on the number of morgen 
. m$ upon the number of vines it will carry. 
: ** Add to all this that the struggle will be all the more easy of main- 
` tenance, since the Phylloxera Service has been i in every respect well 
e reliable. All these circumstances combined admit o 
being carried on henceforth with great economy, and at the same time 
uoc the been conditions for securing efficiency. 
“Bei rstood, Sever, that if the method pursued is to give all 
the erate of which it is capable, there must be the eed to apply = 
with a free hand in every. case sae ere es is esnin necessary. Ther 
must be no hesitation in applying, s it were, the actual cautery to the 
wound, and in enlarging the estivi zones, especially in the direction 
of the boundaries of the phylloxerie i inv 
regular routine, the head of the staff should find means of oe a 
still more exact serutiny of all suspected localities, as well as of the 
vines in the neighbourhood of those that have been pronounced affected: 
“T have been pleased to observe that this is being done, and that 
= Peringuey’s instructions were perfectly understood. It is scarcely 
to say that it is of the greatest importance that the visitation 
of the vineyards should take place each year, as is the rule elsewhere, 
before the swarming season of the Phylloxera, and the same precaution 
holds good with regard to measures of eradication. 
“ Turning to another aspect of the question, the permission to replant 
a Sonat dt vineyard after the lapse of a specifie = time, is a matter of 
` great moment. e length of this period will, of course, vary accor ding 
to sieut den specially with regard to the distitióe from other vine- 
yards, the aspect, the situation, and the sort of culture which has 
followed the eradication. I think that, in general, the replanting "a 
be 
. planted is situated not less than 10 to 12 kilometres (6 or 7 miles) fron 
the nearest phylloxerized area. "To this end I think it would be well 
if the Government had nurseries of the best sorts of vine plants esta- 
blished in perfectly uninfected localities, and were to arrange that these - 
plants be delivered on stated conditions to such propr rietors as might - 5 
vU. — to me that, with this combination s pease: the end & 
aimed at may be attained in a manner advantageous to the win - 
and in accordance with the best interests of the oum and for this it. 
