284 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Ocr., 1902. 
Vegetable Pathology. 
A NEW DISEASE IN BANANAS. 
The Bulletin of ? Union Syndicale des Agriculteurs d’ Egypte has just 
announced a disease (called “A Vermicular Banana Disease in Egypt’) which 
rages with severity amongst the bananas of this country (Egypt), and which 
has only just been discovered. 
This disease is characterised by the crinkled appearance of the leaves at 
their extremities ; by the presence, in the sap of the plant and in the fruit of 
micro-organisms (nemator worms), and lastly by the presence of the same worm 
in the soil surrounding the roots. The plant is first affected in its greener 
parts, in the leaves and fruit, which latter are either small or dried-up ; then 
the root is attacked in its turn. 
This disease, which, in Egypt, attacks especially the variety known as the 
Jamaica banana, and for which, so far, no remedy has been found, is probably 
the same which raged on the island of Trinidad, and which appears to have 
there caused great damage in 1896.—Journal d’ Agriculture Tropicale. 
[This disease has long since been investigated by Mr. H. Tryon, Entomolo- 
gist and Vegetable Pathologist to the Department of Agriculture.—Ed. Q.4.J.] 
THE WINE PRODUCTION OF THE WORLD. 
The Lyons Viticultural Moniteur, France, has collected the statistics of the 
world’s wine production for 1901. A summary which has been furnished by 
the American Consul at Lyons to the State Department of Agriculture at 
Washington, is published in Station, Farm, and Home. 
This summary shows the French production to have been 1,530,223,200 
gallons, a diminution of 247,869,600 gallons compared with 1900. The 
production of 1901 is 475,200,000 gallons above the average for the ten 
preceding years. 
There has been an increase in the area devoted to viticulture of 12,093 
acres in the last year, which gives a total area of 4,288,037 acres. 
After France, the great producers of wine in the world are Italy, with 
1,013,760,000 gallons in 1901; Spain, with 520,080,000; and Portugal, with 
155,760,000 gallons. In Austria the crop was estimated at116,160,000 gallons, 
in Roumania at 87,120,000, in Russia at 76,560,000 gallons, in Bulgaria at 
73,920,000, in Germany at 60,720,000, in Turkey (Gncluding Cyprus) at 
50,160,000, in Switzerland at 31,680,000, and in Servia at 23,760,000 gallons. 
Chili harvested in 1901 87,120,G00 gallons; the Argentine Republic, 
55,440,000; the United States, 39,600,000; Peru, 36,960,000; Brazil, 12,672,000; 
Uruguay, 2,376,000; Mexico, 924,000; Bolivia, 660,000 gallons. 
Aside from Algeria and Tunis, which produce respectively 146,440,800 
and 4,488,000 gallons, the vine is not seriously cultivated in Africa, except in 
the islands owned by Portugal (Madeira giving in a normal year 7,920,000 
gallons), and at the Cape, which produces 3,168,000 gallons. 
Australia produced 8,316,000 gallons. 
Asia, which is the cradle of the vine, occupies a low place in the statistics, 
perhaps because Asiatic religions do not sanction the drinking of wine. Outside 
of Asia Minor the vine is not cultivated, save in Persia, where 765,600 gallons 
were produced in 1901. In China an Austrian company has embarked in the 
lanting of vineyards. They occupy a vast territory, and several places are in 
ull bearing. “According to a French consul, the grapes are large and 
numerous, but they rot when the rains come, and ripen too fast when the sun 
shines. The wine, too, is inferior, and must be mixed with that of Europe 
before being fit to drink. 
There is a general crisis for winegrowers, because of an over-production 
in the entire world. 
