6o THE GRAPES OF NEW YORK. 



were 15,172 tons. The varieties most largely grown were, in order named, 

 Concord, Catawba, Delaware, and Niagara. 



In the Middle region, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, about half the grapes 

 grown were for table use and half for wine. By far the largest part of the 

 grapes grown in this region was in Ohio, only about one-fourth of the total 

 area being in the other two states. Between 1880 and 1890, viticulture 

 scarcely held its own in this division. The decrease in the value of the 

 product, competition with California, and, more particularly, ravages of 

 insects and fungi were the causes of the falling off in planting. In some 

 localities many vineyards were destroyed. The grapes sold for table use in 

 this region amounted to 50,337 tons; to wineries, 14,456 tons. 



So, too, in the Western region, Missouri and Kansas, but little progress 

 was made during this ten years and for the same reasons, though the devas- 

 tation in Missouri was caused chiefly by black-rot, which begun to be trouble- 

 some about 1875. The plantings in Missouri were largely for wine-making 

 but in Kansas, which contained 5542 of the 17,306 acres for this region, 

 about half of the crop was sold for table use. The grapes for table use in 

 this region amounted to 30,794 tons, for wineries, 8290 tons. 



The crop in the Southern region was about equally divided between wine 

 and table grapes, the production in 1889 amounting to 1,165,832 gallons of 

 wine and 14,539 tons of table grapes. The new plantings about equalled 

 the acreage destroyed so that in total area the region was about holding 

 its own. The chief market for the table grapes was in the North where 

 they were sold early in the season at prices ranging from fifteen to twenty- 

 five cents a pound. 



We are concerned with the Pacific region in that its grape products, 

 especially its wines, compete with those of eastern America. The growth 

 of viticulture in the Pacific region in the decade we are discussing was little 

 short of marvelous. In 1880 the acreage was 35,518 acres and in 1890, 

 213,230 acres — much greater than that of all the eastern regions, and the 

 production of grapes being more than proportionately greater because of the 

 greater productiveness of the vines. In this region 43,414 tons were sold 

 for table grapes; 173,037 tons for wine; 41,166 tons were made into 

 raisins and 23,252 tons used for dried grapes and other purposes than 



