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Raisin Industry Increases 



The California raisin crop is now 

 about three times as large as that of 

 Spain, according to a recent publication 

 of the United States Department of Ag- 

 ricultvire. About 60 per cent of this 

 crop is grown in Fresno County alone. 

 Last year it is estimated that the entire 

 California crop amounted to SoOjXMJ.OOO 

 pounds. This unquestionably could be 

 greatly increased if the demand war- 

 ranted iL As a matter of fact, however, 

 it is the practice to produce only 

 enough raisins to supply the existing 

 demand. In this connection it is inter- 

 esting to note that as the domestic crop 

 has increased, the importations of rai- 

 sins have correspondingly decreased. In 

 18&5 the imports amounted to over 38,- 

 •XiO,(XK) pounds: in 1915 thev were less 

 than 3,000,000. 



In the early days of the industry high 

 prices were realized, the average from 

 1889 to 1893 being about 5 cents a 

 pound. Prices then began to fall, how- 

 ever, until in 1897 raisins were quoted 

 as low as ^4 of a cent a pound. The 

 growers then perceived that in order to 

 make the industry profitable coopera- 



tion was necessar>-. The first associa- 

 tion disbanded after a career of approx- 

 imately six years. Another attempt also 

 proved a failure, and it was not until 

 1912 that a really successful organiza- 

 tion was formed. An active effort is 

 being made by this organization to 

 bring raisins into more general use. 



Bulletin No. 349 of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, "The Raisin 

 lndustr>%" has now been published. 

 This bulletin gives much information 

 on the raisin industry, the kind of soil 

 required, the various methods of prun- 

 ing, the varieties and methods of har- 

 vesting and packing. It points out also 

 that as the raisin vines are not resistant 

 to the Phylloxera, in order to make 

 permanent, durable vineyards they 

 should be grown on Phylloxera-resist- 

 ant stalks. 



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 grower allows his soil to be at all 

 cloddy, which is very likely to be the 

 case where there is clay in the soil. 

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 rollers following each other; in some 

 cases an efficient seeder attachment 

 goes with the pulverizer which is 

 found very efficient among grain farm- 

 ers and for crops such as clover, alfalfa, 

 etc., where the seeds are small and not 

 sown very deep. These do much better 

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 tries which are known as semi-humid 

 or hmnid climates. By thoroughly pul- 

 verizing the soU and rolling the sur- 

 face, very dry climates have been suc- 

 cessful in conserving the moisture and 

 have been able to produce very fine 

 crops, while without such methods 



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