MYHORK (i RAPES 



VITI8 



VINIFKRA 



Trad* 



therefore become an established industry. On id,, mountains and table 

 hinds, on the other hand, it is grown with complete suceess. An account 

 of an interesting experiment at present being conducted in Mysore by 

 an Australian (Mr. M. Paul), is given u, th, Indian AartcvUurui (Jan. I. 

 1907). Mr. Paul appears to consider the Mysore climate an absolutely 

 id.-.il one for the vine, mid he hopes in a few years to place on the 

 Indian market some twenty varieties of the finest grapes grown in 

 Australia, and equal to any produced on the Con- The 



cuttings imported from Australia were kept partly on tW NiL-m hilU 

 and partly in a small nursery at Bangalore, but have now to a large extent 

 leeu planted out, and are said to } doing very well. In a year it is 

 asserted by Mr. Paul, that he will have a good show of grape- 

 years his little Bangalore vinevard \\ill produce some tons. These 

 ii rapes, he considers, will sell at a few annas a pound, and he declares 

 that they will be equal to grapes sold in London at five or six shillings 

 a pound. [C/. Cameron, For. Trees of Mysore and Coorg, 1894, 74-5 ; 

 Rice, Mysore Gaz., 1897, i., 83 ; Repts. Qovi, Bot, Hard., Bangahre.] 



Uses. It is chiefly as a fruit that grapes are cultivated on the table- 

 land of India. But they are at the same time largely eaten in a dried 

 state as raisins or currants, and at one time constituted a fairly inqiortant 

 article of food with the people of Kanawar. The industry of drying grapes 

 is not practised, however, to any very great extent anywhere in India. 

 According to Dutt (Mat. Med. Hind., HMHI. 138) raisins have for many 

 centuries been employed medicinally by the Hindus, and he adds that 

 they enter into the composition of numerous demulcent and expectorant 

 medicines in use at the present time. The other products manufactured 

 from the grape are wine, brandy and vinegar (see pp. 1 109, 1 1 10). 



[Cf. Blyth, Foods, Compos, and Anal., 1903. 442-69 ; Leach. Food Inipeet, 

 and Anal., 1905, 554-60; Journ. Soc. Chem. Jndutt ; Yearbook of Pharmacy; 

 Journ. Soc. Arts, etc. ; Kept, on Viticul. Work during 1887-93; Agri. Exper. Stal.. 

 California, 1896; also Bull., 1900, No. 130; 1905, No. 167; 1906, N !*pt. 



Agri. Victoria, Bull., 1902, No. 2 ; 1905, No. 22 ; U.S. Dept. Agri., Farmer' Bull.. 

 1903, No. 175; Hosie, Rept. on Prov. of Stu'ch'uan, 1904, 20-2.] 



TRADE. In the internal trade returns, wines are classed along with Trade. 

 spirits (see p. 1047). The foreign trade consists chiefly of imports and 

 re-exports. The exports of Indian produce are quite unimportant, and 

 when compared with the immense population, the imports also are re- 

 markably small. The following table shows the foreign imports of wines 

 of all sorts for the five years 1902-7 : 



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From these figures it will be noted that the imports do not anew much 

 tendency to increase. The chief supplying countries and the shares taken 

 bv the various provinces may be exemplified bv the following analysis of 

 the trade of 1906-7. Of the total quantity (329,342 gallons) imported in 



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