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The other important vine districts are arranged in accordance 

 with number of stocks : — Malmesbury, Cape, Tulbagh, Oudtshoorn. 

 Piquetberg, Ladismith, Caledon, and Swellendam, the number of 

 plants in these varying from five million to two million each. 



The districts in which haanepoots form a large proportion of 

 the stand are Worcester, Robertson, and Oudtshoorn, with 6,578,150, 

 3,315,072, and 1,520,635 haanepoots respectively, while in the Paarl, 

 Stellenbosch, and all the other vine districts they form only a small 

 proportion of the whole. This is reflected in the product of 

 raisins already referred to, which are mostly produced in Worcester, 

 Robertson, Oudtshoorn, and Ladismith. 



Taking the Cape Colony as a whole, the vine stocks are classi- 

 fied : — 



Red Wine : Hermitage 

 Pontac 

 Muscadel 



White Wine : Stein 



Greengrape 

 French Grape 

 Haanepoot 

 Others 



The produce is entered as : — 



7,286,089 

 565,139 



6,815,415 



4,297,702 

 22,384,376 



8,297,308 

 17,493,974 

 10,753,184 



Grapes made into wine or brandy ... 5,809,609 baskets. 



Grapes not made into wine or brandy 467,316 „ 



Wine : Red ... 1,460,721.1 gallons. 



White ... 4,225,950' 



Brandy or Spirits ... 1,534,069! „ 



Vinegar ... 114,015' 



Raisins: Stalk ... 60,520 lbs. 



Loose ... 1,726,895 „ 



Sultanas ... 43,ii6 „ 



Currants ... 7,794 „ 



The oversea export of wine is entered at 73,655 gallons, value 

 j^ 1 8, 45 7, while to the other Colonies in the Customs union it is : — 



Wine: Hermitage ... £3,556 



Constantia ... 226 



Other kinds ... 47,495 



Spirits ... 39,703 



Making a total export of wines and spirits of £109,437 value. 



The import of wine is 65,862 gallons, valued at ;^47,59i. 



The grapes produced in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony, 

 Natal, and Rhodesia, are almost entirely used for local table use, 

 wine forming at present only a very small product. 



Vegetables. 



The area under vegetables in Cape Colony has already been 

 stated as 15,410 acres, and the distribution of this is shown in a 

 previous page. With such an area in crop, and with much more 



