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better than the Muscats. The Malaga raisins are also very heavy and 

 solid. I am satisfied that there will be a good demand for this raisin, 

 especially among consumers, who prefer a bunch raisin, but who 

 do not care to pay for the expensive packing which is necessary to 

 preserve the Muscat bunches. The Malaga raisin could be sold in bulk, 

 and still would not break up. The Malaga grape is grown in many 

 places in California, and is used principally as a table grape; it 

 has only been cured and dried into raisins in Fresno. According to 

 A. B. Butler, this grape is grown in Malaga for table purposes. 



Feher Szagos. Feher Szagos raisins have been in the market for 

 several years, and have brought in sweatboxes from three to three and 

 a half cents per pound. This grape is a heavy bearer and grower, 

 branches erect but slender, leaves glossy, entire, bunches medium to 

 small, pointed and solid. The berries are greenish amber, medium, 

 oval, pointed, with thin skin, and few and small seeds. The flesh is 

 not firm, but dries well, and when dried the raisin is very good, with 

 a peculiar flavor of its own. They are only used for cooking, but are 

 nevertheless rather good raisins to eat, and their seeds are so soft that 

 they are not objectionable. The bearing quality of the Feher Szagos 

 is very heavy, as much as sixteen tons of green grapes having been 

 raised to the acre, and from ten to twelve tons is a common yield. It 

 ripens with the Muscat, and the vine bears only one crop. At three 

 cents per pound, the Feher Szagos is a profitable grape. The native 

 home of this variety is Hungary or Southern Austria, the name 

 meaning, in Hungarian, White Jack. In Fresno it is grown quite 

 extensively, having originally been planted as a wine grape. As such 

 it is highly valued, producing an abundance of highly flavored sherry. 



Other Raisin Grapes. In Asia Minor, the Grecian Islands, Morea, 

 Italy, Spain and Morocco, there are grown a number of varieties of 

 grapes which are cured into raisins and sold as such. Many of these 

 are little, if any, better than our dried grapes, while others again are 

 superior, more resembling the regular raisins. Among the latter we 

 have the Spanish Black and Red, and the Smyrna and Turkish Black 

 and Red. Some of them belong to the Muscat family, probably resem- 

 bling Black and Red Muscats, but of these varieties we have no 

 particular information, and our growers will probably not lose much 

 by avoiding a more intimate acquaintance with them. 



