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stable manure may be applied to the vineyard in autumn and ploughed 

 and cultivated under in the spring. In large vineyards, where it is not 

 feasible to use the stable manure, some green crop may be grown between 

 the vines and turned under. For this purpose the Cow Pea maybe sown, 

 after thorough cultivation earlier in the season, in drills between the rows 

 late in June, giving the ground a light harrowing, just as the Cow Peas are 

 coming through, in order to break the crust that forms and to leave the 

 surface -soil in fine tilth, so that it will not bake. In the spring the crop is 

 ploughed in, care being taken not to work the land too deeply, close to the 

 vines, in order to avoid cutting off too many roots. 



Then follows a census of the number of vines, 8,540,819 ; pounds of 

 Grapes, 13,783,055 ; gallons of wine, 122,382 ; value of Grapes, wine, &c, 

 $314,807 in the Stat3 of Missouri, with the quantity in each county. 



C. H. H. 



Grape 'Muscat Salomon.' By B. and T. Salomon (Bev. Hort. 

 p. 406, Oct. 1, 1904 ; coloured plate). — Chasselas Dore x Muscat de 

 Saumur. Highly recommended. — C. T. 1). 



Grape Root-worm. By M. V. Slingerland and J. Craig (U.S.A. 

 Exp. Stn. New York, Bull. 208, xii/1902; U figs.).— The grub of a 

 # beetle, Fidia viticidia, Walsh, has wrought great havoc in Chautauqua, 

 seriously injuring about 100 acres of vineyards in that famous Grape belt. 

 Figures of the injuries done to the leaves by the beetles, and to the rots 

 by the grubs, of the eggs, grubs, pupa?, and perfect insects, are given. 

 The eggs are laid in summer under the loose bark of the vines ; they are 

 soon hatched, and the grubs make their way to the soil, where they feed on 

 the roots during mild w r eather until June, when they pupate in earthen 

 cells for about a fortnight. 



The measures suggested against the attack are to plant resistent stocks 

 if such can be found (experiments along this line are in progress), and to 

 invigorate injured vineyards by generous feeding and judicious cultivation. 

 Thorough stirring of the soil in June and July is considered the best 

 means of checking the evil, for then the pup* are turned out of their cells 

 and must perish ; the young grubs also are, to a large extent, prevented 

 from reaching the roots. The beetles may be poisoned as they feed on 

 the leaves by spraying ; but as the beetles lay their first batch of eggs 

 very scon after emerging from the pupa, this method doos not seem so 

 successful as with some insects ; or they may be jarred from the vines 

 on to sheets, and so caught. — F. J. C. 



Grasses of Southern Missouri, Economic Notes on some of 



the. By S. A. Hoover (U.S.A. St. Bd. Ayr. Missouri, vol. Hi., n. 8, 

 1903 ; illustrated). — A descriptive list of some of the best-known grasses 

 in Missouri, both cultivated and wild. 



Of the latter the author has found more than ninety species in South- 

 West Missouri. 



Some of these, as Little Barley (Hordeum pusillum), Kentucky Blue 

 Grass (Poa pratensis L.), Side Oats (Boutaloua racemosa Lag.), are use- 

 ful as pasture. Others, as Johnson Grass (Andropogon halejjense 

 Scribner) and Broom Sedge (Andropogon virginicus L.), are troublesome 



