. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). It has been fa- ^; ists for fully PART I—IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. A. SHELLING OR RATTLING (pages 413 tO 440). Many grape growers of Chautauqua county have this year lost a considerable portion of their grapes on account of the berries dropping to the ground before they were fully mature. This con- dition is commonly known as the " shelling " or the "rattling" of the grapes. Its unusual prevalence and the severity of the attacks in some v
. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). It has been fa- ^; ists for fully PART I—IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. A. SHELLING OR RATTLING (pages 413 tO 440). Many grape growers of Chautauqua county have this year lost a considerable portion of their grapes on account of the berries dropping to the ground before they were fully mature. This con- dition is commonly known as the " shelling " or the "rattling" of the grapes. Its unusual prevalence and the severity of the attacks in some vineyards have caused the vineyardists much uneasiness regarding the losses caused and the possible extent to which the trouble may affect the vines in the future. During the past fall it has appeared more or less seriously throughout the region of the Chautauqua grape belt, and some portions of central New York have not entirely escaped its presence. The trouble is not a new one. miliar to observing vineyard- twenty-five years, and it is probable that it has existed even longer. It is the sever- ity of the attack which has this fall affected the vines that has made the Chautauqua vineyardists in particular anx- ious regarding the cause of the trouble and the remedies which may be' applied to prevent its reappearance. Description.—The shelling of grapes takes place in the follow- ing manner. As the season of ripening approaches, certain ber- ries of the affected clusters fall to the ground on account of the inability of the main fibres and other connecting tissue of the fruit-stems to sustain their weight. Figure i represents a normal separation of the berry from the stem as commonly pulled off; Fig. 2 shows the manner in which this separation takes place in the case of shelling. The end of the stem is even, as if cut with a Fig. I.—Normal separation of berry from the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been di
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