New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-03-08
FRhyCH BR1YDT ND UINE.

A LITTER FROM DIR. EDWARD IT, KNIGHT WH'
TRAVELLED wirH THE rHYiLoNFrt COMMISSION.
To me EdttOr Of The TrtbHre.
Sir; Your letter from France dated Feb
rnary : and entitled 1.-THE Win" Produce OF France
considers the wine crop and brandy production or
France "a II the latter depended on the former Inc
brandy drinkers need have no foars on this score
French brandy" 80 called Will alwa~s be prccuIab.e
at moderate prces so long the disteries Of the
United states aud Britain furnish the whskcy and TIC
beet Yields sugar Tho quantity Of spirits sent from
the United states ports to France IA very great, and -
nearly all becomes brandy in that pleasant climate
and ia shipped back French casks and bottles one
large Scotch distlcry sends its whole production To
Uayrr to be converted The firm Of Champonnos, ls has
erected in Franc for various owners more than 300
speaking from memory dstllrries for tho conversion
Of the bee JUICE alcohol for the brandy mnufac
turer. II any desires 10 cultivate the taste for
brandy" he be discouraged by any anticip1
ton Il The failure OF the supply one reason perhaps
that so Of the beet crop goes TO the Sill instead %
the vacuum-p3n that tine acoho1 process Ia simpler
and the apparatus ess costly than tho sugar process the
latter requiring for economical working, plant worth
not less ,iau 500 900 On smaller scale than this The
mcdenta, expenses have to 10 -aldlcd upon a smaller
production and the cost per pound OF the sugar Is IN
creased. The competition il very close
TIL, wine question Is a different one The phylloxcra
- steadily increasing the % t, rayages, and the
prospect is most serious. Wien IA France one Of the
United States Conmls-i ,ncr, to tie Paris Exposition
and member Of the jury was placed upon the stan ~
the Minister Of Agriculture ANA Commerce, and visited
the infected districts OF Bourgogne with The Pnyiioxera
Commission late letter iu TIE TKBCSE speaks OF
the auprarnncc Of the scourgc Du and Mersau't IN
the apartment cote dOr. This statement Is trhr IN
space occupied by the vines In the experimental garoeh
OF Dbon has been covered deep with quc4mr and Is
now "A barren hin white as snow. IN one direction
from tho cIiy OF ID Jon are number OF Infected
t4su AT n
prc,t exronse IVY the application of b.sulPhidc OF
carbon In luid icrm around the root'. The nozzle or
the syringe Is driven by the foot depth of twenty
inche, Into the soil ajaCon to the root, and then
plunsor elects u graduated quantity Of thn liquid Tine
smell "a very offensive and 10 Soma persons quite ifjurl
os hut me soldiers detailed 10 the work seemed to re-
gard # As all IN the days The spot absolutely
injected In treated large quantity per square metro
belt OF several hundred metres round 10 OuclaIi the
quantity ana much ger SURROUNDING area 10
lesser quantity per square metre. have among NY
pnIcra the exact figures, but cannot place ny hands
uuuu them Just now,
vines were dug up Immediately after the appl-
c,tOn OF the bi.ulphdc and the grabs anpeard 10 ne
ali lead The vine not appear TO he injured by me
Application The grnn Is minute green Cts1,uit I
readily d$cernbc without good lens. DuJ ltinhIlht
With great rapdiiy, and ATTACKS the root the hyil"'
nz out tG- zap and causng calosties anh wouudS
watch Iepdcr the root unit to sustain tho plant "Ach
Al Mersault lower down the p. l.. & W. X. r. tho same
means O-lug rmployrd to arrest the rGonrge' Inc
are issued by the Department cpch year ThONlhS me
progress u the Infection aud were spread upon me
tables at the conference held 30 DDun under me super
utrndrnce Project OF the Department totc dOF
Monsieur Eugene Ilseraud, The Inspector General "i
Agriculture Of France. la, charge OF The experiments,
nud has great hopes of the ~ the means adutd
10 rotate and Kill cut the grub. Ono great dhchitY
arises from the fact that the insect III ils
perfect winged stage Is very small ana
drlus with the wind to unknown di,taherr,'
Ioxer. was imported from tho United states and II N
claimed every centre OF Infection can BE- identified,
ana In eacn case Was result the importation of
Ala rlcan grape introduced for purpoacs O cG-
pertinent.
What with the phyONcra tho potato-bug, the wind
storms the plcufo pnGumuula and The wildcat 10 ucs,We
are Al present rather disturbing element To- Euope
for the phylIpIrr has also invaded Italy, spain and
Portugal and The " Watch upon the Rhine" viii hardly
arrest 70. lD"AhD II hNl'hl'
Seto- ork. March 3, 1879