REPORTS OF AUXILIARY SOCIETIES. 381 



Gallons. 



Goodrich 48,000 



Davison 40,000 



Flushing 21,000 



Kichfield - 22,000 



Fenton 40,000 



Total 487,000 



To produce this ocean of cider it required the crushing of 170,666 bushels of 

 apples. The product is quoted at six cents per gallon, which makes a total 

 value of 629,220. 



Bringing these values together, they are as follows: 



Marketable apples - . . $43,035 



Evaporated 8,310 



Apple jelly 3.700 



Apple butter 250 



Vinegar 600 



Cider 29,220 



Total ..$85,115 



The value of the apple crop and apple products in 1885 was $73,675 ; in 1884 

 it was $50,208 ; in 188 '■i it was $104,995. But that year shipping apples brought 

 75 cents per bushel. There are reported from various points the production of 

 2,000 gallons of sorghum syrup the present season, which has a market value 

 of 50 cents to the gallon or $1,000 all told. 



PLUMS. 



Of this fruit the product was unusually large and shipments were made as 

 follows: 



Bushels. 



Flint 1,450 



Clio 400 



On line of D. G. H. & M. K. R 500 



Total. 2,350 



The average price per bushel was 65 cents, making a total value of $1,527.50. 



GRAPES. 



There is one large vineyard just outside the northern limits of the city of 

 about ten acres. There is another just at the southern limits of the city of 

 about five acres, or more properly speaking two of two and a half acres each. 

 In Fenton township there is the celebrated Pine Lake vineyard of about ten 

 acres. In this city Mr. Leonard Wesson, treasurer of the Genesee county hor- 

 ticultural society, has a small but very thoroughly cultivated and productive 

 vineyard. There are numerous smaller cultivators of grapes, while a great many 



