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VITICULTURIST FOR VIC-
TORIA.
Among the passengers who arrived by
the mail steamer Oruba late on Sunday
night was M. Raymond Dubois, a French
Viticultural Expert, who has come to the
colony under engagement to the Victorian
Government to fill a position at the
Rutherglen Agricultural College similar to
that held at Roseworthy College by Pro-
fessor Perkins. M. Dubois is comparatively
a young man, who has had a thoroughly
practical and scientific training in wine-
making. He has gone through the three
years' course at the French Agricultural
College at Montpelier, and has taken the
diploma of the school. He owns some pro-
perty in Algeria, where he has been en-
gaged in winemaking. M. Dubois has not
visited Australia before, but he has read
publications on Australian winemaking,
and considers it is an advantage for a
viticulturist who has to advise upon vine
culture in Australia to have had ex-
perience in Algeria, since the
climatic conditions of the two
countries are similar. The drawback in
Algeria, he explains, was in connection
with the fermentation process. The newly
appointed expert was pleased to learn that
in this colony a system of maintaining an
even temperature in winemaking by passing
coled water through coils has been adopted.
With regard to the phylloxera, he considers
the only way to deal with the disease is to
uproot the vine. In Algeria this is done
by the Government authorities. Directly
a vineyard is seen to be infested the Go-
vernment has power to purchase the pro-
perty at a value estimated by experts. The
whole of the infested vines are then de-
stroyed. M. Dubois continues the voyage
to Melbourne.
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