Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-16
FERMENTATION OF VINE.
Timely Information from the State Board
of Viticulture,

of Viticulture.
The State Board of Viticultural Commits
sioners have issued circular containing
hints upon fermentation of wine, which
will interest the winemakers who Will soon
begin gathering the product of their vine
yards. The Board says:
g For regions resembling in climatic in
fiuences the south of France and the claret
regions of Spain, our best selections for
common stocks of popular commercial red
wines will probably be produced from the
Mataro, Carignan and Grenache, which are
late ripeners and produce well with short
pruning. The Carignan should be doubted
for places liable to much fungod disease.
Some bad samples of mildew have appeared
in San Mateo county on young Carignans.
The warmer the climate and the richer
the musts Gin sugar., the shallower should
be the mass in fermentation. There is no
danger of getting it too shallow
Fermentation should be so perfected
before the warm spring weather sets in that
there will be little or nothing to fear from
those alterations which are caused by dis
eased ferments. To accomplish this the
first violent fermentation should be as thor
ough as possible, and the wine so protected
after it is drawn off as not to check the in
sensible INSTRUMENTATION. To aid in this,
wines should be blended when first drawn,
so that those having plenty of tannin and
potash salts may operate on those which
are deficient in such elements. This is es
peclally applicable to many Zinfandel
wines which have d surplus Of free tartarc
acid and deficiency of bitartrate of potash
and tannin. 1t is thought that Zinfandel
clarets may be improved by leaving them
on the pomace until they draw off clear If
Mataro wine well fermented from grapes
containing about n per cent. of sugar, can
be had TO blend with Iinfandel at the time
of racking the wine about December, both
may be improved in character, the Mataro
perfecting the Zinfande1 and checking the
tendency to diseased spring lamentations.
Some wine-makers are using from three
to i've pounds OF pure suiphate of lime
(gypsum) to the ton on Zinfandel grapes in
Observation-Disclosures on the grapes to ia
cilitate the extraction of potash, to set the
color and to clear the wine before spring
from Preventative principles. This is the
practice in the south of France, Spain and
Portugal with wines which do not become
clear easily, or which are liable 10 trouble
in transportation.
If Zinfandel grapes, When crushed,
| show too high degree Of sugar for claret,
they should either be mixed with grapes
containing less sugar, or water should be
added to reduce the density Anything
over twenty-five per cent. of sugar in Tin
fandel from the hillsides, or from lands
where the roots do not reach too much
moisture, should be considered dangerous
in fermentation, if unaided. Water assists
rich musts in fermentation remarkably
Shall Henley be Tried for Illegal Voting Z?
In y very spirited editorial the California
Spirit Of the Times calls upon District Attor-
ney Hilborn, of San Francisco, to have
Barclay Henley indicted and tried for lille
gal voting in the State of California while
citizen of Mexico. The Spirit Of the Times
says:
lie voted illegally on November 4, 1884.
at Santa Rosa, not being a citizen, and
| thereby was guilty of double violation of
the laws of the United States made and
provided in such eases; first, in his regis
tration as voter and second iii exercising
the elective franchise as a voter. He should
be arrested, indicted, tried. convicted and
punished for his offenses the same as if he
was the humblest person on the face of the
earth, and there should be no delay about
| it. In accordance with his own written
ayowal he became, in response to his own
! personal appHcauOni 4 natufaliZeu citizen
| Of Mexico took up his abode there, claim
| ing the protection of the French Emoassa-
dor in Mexico, and the French Consul
| General in this city, in the enjoyment of
! that self-imposed citizenship, and never yet
has absolved himself from its claim to his
allegiance. : Barclay Henley is an lille
gal voter. There is no middle course to
pursue in the matter, and Mr.. Hilborn
must take that one which will lead to the
punishment of every class of offenders,
| among which Mr.. Henley will be mum
bered. The position of Mr.. Henley does
not weigh as feathers weight in the scale
He is no more to be relieved of the disabili-
ties under which he labors because he is a
Congressman than the man of the meanest
position in life. 1t is the drawing of that
line in Courts of justice that leads to dis
| respect disregard and defiance of the law
, and its administrators, and finally culmi-
| mates in revolution, bringing in its train de-
struction, anarchy and confusion. We are
well aware that Mr.. Hilbon has the evil
dence in his possession to convict this man,
and if he does not bring him into Court on
| the defensive it will be an outrage upon the
rights and privileges of every honest voter,
who at all times upholds the & sancity and
purity of the ballot-box" Mr.. Hilborn, We
rest the case with you.