1270 THE FRUIT INDUSTRY IN NEW YORK STATE 



by a reference to the foregoing statistics. The production in the 

 last five years was 13,460,575 gallons, an increase of 4,096,075 

 gallons over the five-year period immediately preceding, and of 

 6,347,275 gallons over the corresponding stretch of years 

 beginning with 1901. 



Likewise, the juice output for the 1906-1910 period registered 

 a gain of 2,251,200 gallons over the 1901-1905 period. 



These comparisons plainly indicate that there was a substan- 

 tially steady increase each season from 1905 up to and including 

 1914. In 1915 the juice production showed a dropping off of 

 about 2,300,000 gallons compared with that of the last preceding 

 season. It was the smallest production in the last ten years, due 

 to a heavy falling oif in consumption during the closing months 

 of 1914 and the greater part of 1915 by reason of industrial 

 depression, unfavorable weather, curtailment of foreign trade, 

 and other causes, and resulting in the juice-makers having left on 

 their hands a large surplus of juice products. 



In the early years of the history of the Chautauqua grape belt, 

 the juice produced was confined almost wholly to wine-making. 

 Then came the making of unfermented juice. As the demand 

 for the non-alcoholic juice increased with leaps and bounds, the 

 pioneer makers of this product proceeded to enlarge their output, 

 and new companies embarked in the business. In time, grape 

 juice far outstripped wine in the amount produced, as is shown 

 by the following comparative table covering the last five seasons: 



GALLONS PRODUCED 



Totals 2,888,040 10,573,171 



It will be noted that the production of unfermented juice in 

 the Chautauqua belt during the last five-year period was nearly 

 four times as great as the output of fermented juice or wine. 

 Moreover, it will be seen that while the production of wine fluc- 

 tuated greatly in the first four years of that period (1915 not 

 being considered, because of its abnormal condition), the output 



