The daily sentinel., 1910-02-28

spect to the Rheingau to account for
all this-only scientific knowledge of
its wonderful natural resources, and
that knowledge correctly and scien-
tifically applied. The Rheingau might
not grow good cotton or rice, bu. 1t
does grow the finest wine grapes of
the world, and its people have learn
ed all about growing grapes and max
ing wine, that Is all of the secret
that and a correct knowledge of its
soils and the best use to which to put
them. | asked the vineyard inspector
of the region If there are not other
regions in Germany with the same
altitude, temperature. rainfall, slope
direction and drainage? He replied
the. there ~~as, but no other known
and proven wine region in the world
with the same soil. And the more
one studies this wonderful region and
talks to its proprietors and officials,
the more he finds that the one pre-
eminent, predominating feature of the
region-the thing that sets ii apart
from and above other regions, is the
peculiar features of its soil
A Rheingau wine grower-thor-
ough In his knowledge. as German
specialists are-told me that so far
'hNy hhoN VI Dul l"o TeRlOUS
in the world that have soils closely
similar to the Rheingau in latitude,
altitude. temperature and rainfall.
They, like the Rheingau, give up the
finest product of their kind known
In the world. One OF the regions is
the famed Vuelta Abajo tobacco
country of Cuba and the other COM
prises the fruit-growing mountain
valleys of red. chocolate, gray and
shale soils of Colorado. .H
II Colorado does actually contain
within its borders soils, even though
of limited areas, that for quality-pro-
ducing value compare with the won
derful Vuelta Abajo tobacco lands
and the famed Rheingau wine lands,
that is knowledge very good for Colo
rado to know-knowledge of more
value than the discovery of hun
dred mines. Rheingau soil samples
have been sent to Colorado to be
analyzed and compared with the fruit
soils of the Grand valley. Until the
comparative ANALYSES are made the
real similarities or differences of
chemical contents will not be known.
But to the eye, and the touch, the
soils are so similar none but an ex-
pert could tell the difference And
IL allowances are made for the fact
that the Rheingau soils have been
cultivated and mixed for a thousand
years, and the Grand valley soils were
never furrowed until a short quarter
of century ago. think the chemical
contents, those mysterious ingred-
tents mixed in natures great labora-
, tory and which account for the su-
perior excellence of both soils-will
be found TO be practically similar.
Some comparisons between the
Rheingau and the Grand valley, and
some OF the amazing resemblances
can be discovered by one not scien-
tist-the altitude. temperature and
rainfall constitute the chief prime
dffferences-and almost all the diff
ferences If the soil analyses prove
similar. And then one finds a series
or most striking similarities Like
the Grand valley soils, the Rheingau
soils rest upon shales and quartzites.
and, like some of the Grand valley
soils, some of them are simply. de-
composed and eroded shales and
quartzite. Like the shales of the
Grand valley. the underlying shales
of Rheingau dip away from the river
and into the hills-northerly, too, in
both cases. Like the Grand valley
the soils OF the Rheingau are extreme
ly variable. and the best and the
worst are near neighborsi to such an
extent that a soil map looks like a
Chinese puzzle. fH,-..t
Like the Grand valley fruit soils,
the very finest of the, Rheingas wine
soils are the rcd. chocolate-colored