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Prices are fixed once a week by the Malaga Raisin Exchange. They 

 vary enormously according to quality, as will be seen from the following 

 list of average prices per 22-lb. case during the 1905 season : — 



Much up-to-date information concerning the Malaga raisin trade is to 

 be found in the ^■aluable report of M. M. Minangoin & Couston — Les 

 Raisins Sees en Tnnisie — published by the Tunis Government for the 

 guidance of growers in the Regency. I am indebted to it for the prices 

 quoted above. 



This great variation in quality and therefore in price is an excellent 

 proof of the unique nature of the Malaga raisin industry. These high 

 grade dessert raisins are luxuries onlv to be produced in perfection by 

 the exercise of much care and skill, and under the exceptional climatic 

 •conditions obtaining in that district. 



Shipment of F'resh Grapes. 

 Considerable quantities of fresh grapes axe shipped from Malaga in 

 barrels packed in cork dust. They are grown in several villages in the 

 vicinity, such as Alhaurin and Coin, whence they are conveved to ^lalaga 

 fur shipment. 



Though the \-arieties grown and methods of culture are similar to 

 fhose in vogue at Almeria, which district will be the subject of my next 

 Report, it is as well to here note the different behaviour of sucli a stock 

 as A. R.G.I, when grafted with the Ohanez or Almeria grape and trained 

 on a high trellis. Under these circimistances, the growth of suckers 

 and failure of the graft, which growers of the short pruned Gordo com- 

 plain of, no longer occurs. This \igorous stock seems to find an outlet 

 for its surplus energy in the ample overhead training necessary to insure 

 the fruiting of this scion and for this as well as for several other strong 

 growers, A. R.G.I, is considered an excellent stock. 



The training of the vines differs sometimes from that usual near 

 Almeria, where the horizontal overhead trellis or Para is the rule. Several 

 growers near Malaga have tried growing the Ohanez on erect trellises, 

 such as those ^ve use for the Zante currant. They claim to be obtaining 

 satisfactory results with less initial expenditure than that necessary to 

 establish the elaborate overhead system. 



Other matters in connexion with the shipment of fresh grapes can 

 best be described in connexion with the Almeria Industry. 



In closing this brief description of the Malaga district I must thank 

 several of those to whom I am indebted for assistance and information. 

 From Mr. John G. Haggard and Mr. Thornton, H.B.M. Consul and 

 Vice-Consul respectivelv, I received most valuable assistance. To Don 

 Leopoldo de Salas y Amat, I am indebted for much valuable iiiformation 

 and kind help. His reports, as chief of the '• Comission Anti Filoxerica " 

 in the Province of Malaga, were of great use to me. To Mr. Frederick 

 Eaton, Dr. Visick, Don Enrique Nagel, Senor Molino de la Vega and 

 Mr. Johanes Fr. Nolting I wish to also tender mv sincere thanks. 



In reducinjf the .above prices to English standard the value of the peseta is taken at par, viz., 



2.^ pesetas to the £1. 



