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80 TWENTY-NINTH FRUIT-GROWERS' CONVENTION. 



MK. FIDEL. The Santa Cruz Mountains. It does not .seem to 

 spread around the originally infected vines. It seems to jump. 



PROF. PIERCE. Yes, the California vine disease seems to strike a 

 vineyard in a sporadic manner, without any regularity. It does not 

 spread the way phylloxera does, but the action of that disease has been 

 so thoroughly described in publications that I have omitted describing 

 it in this case. I did not think it necessary. There are a number of 

 fungous diseases which cause vines to die. We have one that is a 

 native of this country, and one that has been introduced from France, 

 but which has not become widely distributed as yet. The native disease 

 is common, but I do not find many vines suffering from it. A great 

 many fruit trees have died from it. It is a parasitic fungus, that is, 

 the kind I am speaking of. Of course vines die from a great manv 

 causes, but the parasitic fungus causes the roots to rot. It is liable to 

 spread and is usually found on old oak trees when you dig them out, 

 and if you put in vines it will kill them off. It spreads from one vine 

 to the other just the same as the phylloxera. 



MR. McINTOSH. Has any progress been made in southern Califor- 

 nia in replanting vineyards after they have been killed by the Anaheim 

 disease? 



PROF. PIERCE. Very little. In the southern part of the State a 

 few growers have planted Lenoir vines. Those vines are all right, and 

 some of the other more resistant types are in pretty good condition at 

 present, but most of the vines which they have planted have been of 

 weak stock and nearly all of them have succumbed to the disease, in 

 some cases the third and fourth planting. 



THE RAISIN OUTLOOK. 



By T. C. white, of Feesxo. 



The raisin outlook, as it appears to me, is anything but encouraging 

 to the raisin-growers of California, for two reasons: (1) There are from 

 ten to twenty per cent of the growers who are not members of the 

 California Raisin-Growers' Association; and, (2) There is an apparent 

 overproduction, which seems to be increasing from year to year, as 

 newly planted vineyards come into bearing. 



The first reason is, perhaps, the most serious, for if the growers were 

 all members of the Association the second reason would to a large extent 

 be obviated. If all of the growers were in the Association, so that we 

 could present a solid front to the trade, set a fair and reasonable price 

 upon our product, supply the consumptive demand with as many goods 

 as it requires, and, should there be a surplus, dispose of it to the distil- 

 leries and for other purposes at highest obtainable prices, the loss pro- 

 rated among all of the growers would be a mere- bagatelle and the net 



