12 Successful Plantations 



of grapes near Douglasville, Georgia, on flat sandy land. In 

 two years they were bearing large crops of marketable grapes 

 and have borne regularly since. 



In nineteen hundred seventeen and eighteen the Southern 

 Junior College, at Ooltewah, Tennessee, planted several hundred 

 grapevines consisting of Concord, Ives, Lutie, Niagara, Winchel 

 and Norton. They are n^w producing profitable crops. 



On the ridge above Dry Fork near Nashville, Tennessee, are 

 sevearl vinevards of an acre or more each, in extent, mostly 

 Concords, that aie proving profitable. 



The vineyard at the Nashville Agricultural and Normal In- 

 stitute, near Madison, Tennessee, has been in bearing since 

 nineteen hundred fourteen. The crop in nineteen hundred six- 

 teen averaged eight tons per acre, and it did not fall below four 

 tons per acre until in nineteen hundred twenty when the vine- 

 yard suffered severely from drought. In nineteen hundred 

 twenty-one the grape crop was cut short by frost, but in nine- 

 teen hundred twenty-two the yield on all mature vines is aver- 

 aging about two tons to the acre. 



Small vineyards were visited at Jackson and Hazelhurst, 

 Mississippi, at Austel, Atlanta and Griffin, Georgia, at Hunts- 

 ville and McKinley, Alabama, and at Columbia and Johnson 

 City, South Carolina. All were producing grapes of good quality. 

 Reports have been received through Mr. Morrel, Agriculturist 

 for the Southern Railroad, and from Mr. Zimmerman, of Florida, 

 all agreeing that grapes are actually being produced in many 

 other parts of the South in sufficient quantities to show that 

 they are profitable. Figures obtained from A. C. Taite of Old 

 Fort, North Carolina, show that his father has made a clear 

 average profit of over three hundred dollars per acre on his vine- 

 yard for several years. 



