Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — PHYLLOXERA DISAPPEARS. [ARTICLE]

PHYLLOXERA DISAPPEARS.

Nature Now Doe* What Men Have I.ong Tried In Vain to Do. Nature is doing for California vineyardists what they long and fruitlessly tried to do for themselves. It is reported from many localities that the phylloxera, the most serious pest that has ever attacked the vines, is dying out. The experts have tried every remedy to stay the progress of this pest, but without avail, and six years ago the vineyardists of the Sonotna and Napa valleys all their .vines and replanted the ground with resistant stock. The experts believed that all non-resistant vines were doomed to destruction by the phylloxera. But reports have recently come to the state inspector of orchard pests that a material falling off in the ravages of the pest has been noticed for some time. Vines once affected by it are now almost free. The inspector has begun a thorough investigation of the pleasing phenomena. He thinks some natural enemy of the pest has appeared or that some deadly disease has attacked the phylloxera and Is exterminating it. Whatever is the cause, the result will mean great gain for the viaeyardists.