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•Ihe RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
March 6, 1920 
Only Essex Shares 
Hudson’s Qualities 
They Show Why Essex Went 3037 Miles in SO Hours 
* A critical public has judged theEssex. 
In the year past it set a world’s sales 
record. 
More than $35,000,000 was paid for 
22,000 Essex cars now in service. 
That shows how men wanted what 
Essex offered. 
Now Essex proves the accuracy of 
motordom’s judgment. 
Let the official tests speak: 
On the Cincinnati Speedway a stock 
chassis Essex made a new world mark of 
3037 miles in 50 hours, under observa¬ 
tion of the American Automobile As¬ 
sociation. 
With other trials the same Essex ran 
a total of 5870 miles in 94 hours, 22 
minutes driving time, averaging over 
a mile a minute. 
Both Have This 
Motor Heat Control 
Still another Essex phaeton holds the 
world’s 24-hour road mark of 1061 miles. 
The Essex and Hudson are of course 
totally different types. 
But note the advantages Essex shares 
with Hudson. 
For instance, the radiator shutters by 
which efficient operating heat is main¬ 
tained in coldest weather. They mean 
everything to satisfactoiy winter driv¬ 
ing. Closed, they keep the heat in. 
No unsightly hood covers are needed. 
They give summer efficiency to gaso¬ 
line. They end hard starting. And in 
warm weather, opened, they give the 
maximum cooling. 
The Performance Leaders 
in Every Community 
The Essex, of course, does not cost as 
much as the Hudson, and though it is 
admittedly the runner-up in perform¬ 
ance, it can never be all the Super- 
Six is. 
In speed—in acceleration—in hill- 
dimbing—in endurance—no stock car 
ever matched Hudson’s famous records. 
In every community you will find the 
two cars most noted for performance 
are the Hudson Super-Six and Essex. 
Demand for both is so large that only 
by placing your order ahead can you in¬ 
sure delivery when you want it. 
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better crops with less labor with this 
Implement costing' ouiy tiys. 
Merry Garden 
Auto Cultivator 
Operates by a 2 h. p. motor. No pushing;, pull¬ 
ing, twisting or straining. Simply guide it. 
Controlled by levers on the adjustable handles. 
A child can run it. Goes between wide rows 
and straddles narrow ones. Cultivates the 
hardest sun-baked soil with ease. It produces 
better crops with less labor. Does the work of 
four men. Tra vels 120 to 200 feet per minute. 
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profits if only he had the capital to “swing things." 
We will help you to buy implements, livestock, feeds, seeds, 
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Executive Committee 
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California Wine Growers’ Troubles 
I enclose a clipping from a local paper 
which states that Congress is asked to 
appropriate money for experiments in 
helping the wine growers in California in 
changing from wine to table grapes. Can 
they not simply graft these vines over? 
Connecticut. s. B. I,. 
Approximately 175.000 acres of vine¬ 
yard in California are planted with wine 
varieties of the European typo of grape. 
The fruit of a large proportion of those 
varieties has not heretofore been market¬ 
able anywhere in the world for other pur¬ 
poses than the production of wine and 
brandy. These vineyards, which have 
been planted and developed by several 
thousand grape-growers, represent a large 
part of the capital which they have been 
able to accumulate during the past 20 to 
50 years of work. Many of these grow¬ 
ers have, in fact, specialized in wine-grape 
production to an extent which leaves 
them very largely dependent upon the pro¬ 
duct of their vineyards for the mainte¬ 
nance of their families. 
A very considerable proportion of this 
acreage consists of steep and more or less 
rocky hillside lands, for which no other 
productive use than grape-growing has 
been developed. It is known to be suit¬ 
able for the production of wine-grape va¬ 
rieties of high quality, and it is believed 
that table, raisin and currant grape va¬ 
rieties can he successfully grown, provided 
suitable resistant shocks are used upon 
which to graft these sorts to prevent the 
destruction of the vines by the destruc¬ 
tive Phylloxera (root louse) which if 
prevalent throughout most of that terri¬ 
tory, as it is now prevalent throughout 
much of the European vineyard territory. 
Both the University of California and 
the Bureau of Plant Industry have for a 
number of years been prosecuting investi¬ 
gations and experiments in an effort to 
solve some of the difficult and vital prob¬ 
lems of the Pacific Coast grape-growers. 
The earlier work was done with vaneiies 
chiefly used for wine and brandy produc¬ 
tion. which under conditions then existing 
constituted thb chief commercial outlet 
for the product. If this phass of »he 
grape industry is to be saved and the 
growers who developed it in good faith, 
and with every reason to expect that it 
would he permanent, are to be aided in 
readjusting their efforts to a basis which 
will conform to the now existing con¬ 
ditions, much of the resistant stock and 
grafting experimentation will have to be 
repeated, and that as quickly and thor¬ 
oughly as is possible. 
As the value of the vinevards affected 
is estimated at $35,000,000 to $40 000.000, 
the department has recommended to Con¬ 
gress that the co-operative experiment 
vineyards which have been maintained for 
many years, very largely at the expense 
of the landowners who are now going out 
of business and cannot maintain them 
longer, be acquired by the Government to 
insure the continuance of the experi¬ 
mental work under conditions which will 
make possible the securing of accurate 
results, and the establishing of the indus¬ 
try on a new and sound basis, if that be 
possible. 
One aspect which has developed during 
the past year is the outgrowth of the fact 
that during the past season some 4000 
carloads of fresh grapes from the wine 
vineyards were shipped to Eastern cities 
in the lug boxes in which the fruit is 
placed when picked from the vines, pre¬ 
sumably for domestic wine-making in 
Eastern cities. A very large gallor.age 
of sulphurized or otherwise sterilized un¬ 
fermented juice has been shipped East in 
casks, presumably for the same purpose, 
and many million gallons of similar juice 
are stored in California at the present 
time. The California representatives have 
pointed out iu Congress the menace to the 
public which a continuation of this con¬ 
dition involves, rendering desirable as 
prompt and as complete a readjustment 
of the industry from a beverage to a food 
basis as may be found practicable. 
S. B. J. should bear in mind that the 
grape varieties involved are entirely dif¬ 
ferent from those grown in the Eastern 
States, and that the simple grafting over 
of a few vines, which lie suggests, would 
not. at all meet the situation. Reduced 
to its lowest terms, the question is, can 
this large acreage of w ! ne grapes, (be 
product of which will not he marketable 
hereafter, be so changed, either by graft¬ 
ing or by replacement of vines, as to pre¬ 
vent the loss of $35,000,000 (o $40 000 000 
to several thousand grane-growers within 
a sufficiently short time to make it prac¬ 
ticable for them to continue to live on 
their land? Otherwise, a large propor¬ 
tion of them will need to abandon the 
homes which they established in the ex¬ 
pectation that they would afford them 
shelter during their declining years and 
seek such other employment as the times 
and the conditions permit. 
So far as I know, the situation is with¬ 
out precedent in the histo w of this or any 
other country, at least in modern times, 
and is one which in fairness to the Cali¬ 
fornia grape-growers r qui.vs immediate 
constructive action by Congress in the in¬ 
terest. of the general welfare undei co»- 
stitutional prohibition. M. A. taylob. 
Chief of Bureau of Plant Industry. 
