Transcription

4

From documentary evidence it would appear that one million and a quarter

of acres of vineyard have been destroyed by this disease in France, and that a much larger areas has been injured. No remedial measures adopted there have been attended with absolute success, except the submersion by water; this is only practicable in low-lying level localities adjacent to rivers, and is impossible to be carried out in the infested vineyards in New South Wales.
 

Your Committee, in view of the fact that the disease is confined to a small

area, and has not spread rapidly within that area, and also, seeing that it has been efficiently checked in Victoria, looks with hope upon the possibility of completely stamping it out within its present comparatively narrow limits.

They recommend that the vines in all the vineyards known to be infected

should be destroyed by treating the soil with liberal doses of bisulphide of carbon, and then by rooting up, to the depth of some 18 inches, the vines and their roots and burning them. The lands so treated should not be allowed to be cultivated as vineyards, until proven to be free from disease.

Your Committee now beg to lay before your Honorable House the Bill

as amended and approved by them.

                                                    W.H. SUTTOR,

No. 2 Committee Room,                                                        Chairman.

Sydney, 22nd September, 1886. 

 

––––––––––––––––––––––

Current Status: 
Ready for review