1330 THE FRUIT INDUSTRY IN NEW YORK STATE 



almost every one hoping the other fellow's crop would be lighter 

 the next year. All saw their hopes 1 realized. 



All will want to know what this fruit is bringing in cash to 

 the growers and the consequent effect on the value of local real 

 estate. The figures have not been completed for the crop of 1915. 

 For the year 1914, however, the value of the crop was about 

 $2,600,000, and the figures will not vary greatly from that for 

 the past year. 



Nothing has been said about the wine and grape-juice factories 

 which have been built in this vicinity by reason of the grape 

 crop, as they are taken up in articles on pages 1246 and 1268. 

 As to the price of land here, conservative men put it from two to 

 three hundred per cent increase, many farms having been sold for 

 much more than that. By reason of climatic conditions grapes 

 will never be grown except on a very limited area, since they are 

 too costly a proposition if late spring frosts are likely to take place. 

 For that reason we flo not forsee that there will ever be much 

 danger of an overproduction. 



Men who have traveled widely for years are unanimous in their 

 opinion that there is no more beautiful region in existence than 

 on the shores of Lake Erie, and when the October air is filled 

 with the perfume of the ripened grape, the health-giving qual^ 

 ities of which have been known since the days when our Savior 

 drank of the fruit of the vine, we feel that this is the land of 

 opportunity. 



