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"At Hermann, Mo., about forty or fifty acres are in 

 vineyards; and in the vicinity of St. Louis, and some 

 other parts of the state, probably twenty or thirty acres 

 more; a few at Belleville, 111., and elsewhere in that 

 state. Near Reading, Pa., several vineyards are planted 

 and some excellent wines made. In North and South 

 Carolina, the Scuppernong wines have been made for 

 many years, but the number of acres in grape culture 

 is to the writer unknown. A few vinej^ards are in cul- 

 tivation in the vicinity of New York and Philadelphia 

 and Burlington, New Jersey; but more with a view to 

 supply the market with grapes than to make wine. 

 Efforts have been made in the interior of Kentucky, in 

 Tennessee, in western New York, and on the southern 

 shore and islands of Lake Erie, to cultivate the vine 

 for making wine, but sufficient time has not yet elapsed 

 for a fair trial." The United States census returns for 

 1840 gave the wine crop as 124,734 gallons. In 1850 

 it was 221,249 gallons. The census of 1890 returns a 

 total grape acreage in the United States of 401,261 

 acres. Of this area, 213,230 acres were in California, 

 and are, therefore, outside our present discussion, for 

 the Pacific slope grows the Old World wine grapes, not 

 the ameliorated natives. Nearly 200,000 acres, then, 

 were devoted to native -grape culture and these yielded 

 9,655,905 gallons of wine and 225,636 tons of table 

 grapes. Western New York, comprising the central 

 lakes, or Catawba districts, and the Chautauqua county 

 or Concord district is the heaviest producer of any 

 like area. In 1890, New York state produced 2,528,250 

 gallons of wine and 60,687 tons of table grapes; and 

 these figures are closely seconded by Ohio and Missouri. 

 In 1894, the grape acreage of western New York was 



