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condition of grape culture in tlie United States at this time. It is found in 

 a work entitled, .1 Report Upon the Statistics of Grape Culture and 

 Wine Production in the United States for /SSo.' The report was com- 

 piled by Dr. William McMurtrie under the direction of the Commissioner 

 of Agriculture. 



Statistics are given for all of the states of the Union but a glance at 

 the tables shows that by this time viticulture had become a specialized 

 industry and that the areas devoted to it are more or less localized. The 

 main areas, with their acreage for 1880, may be set forth as follows: 



The Eastern region, comprising the States of Xew York and Pennsyl- 

 vania, 14,590 acres. 



The Middle region, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, 17,634 acres. 



The Western region, Kansas and Missouri, 10,918 acres. 



The Southern region, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina 

 and Georgia, 10,707 acres. 



The Pacific region, California, Arizona and New Mexico, 35,518 acres. 



Outside of these five regions there were in the United States, according to 

 McMurtrie's report, 12,316 acres. The total acreage for the United States 

 in 1880 was 101,683 ^cres; the production of wine was 23,453,827 gallons. 

 Unfortunately the total production of grapes is not given. 



The following data are taken from the agricultural statistics of 1890 and 

 show well the growth of viticulture in ten years though it is probable 

 that the figtires for 1880 were far too low. For the Eastern region, 

 51.000 acres; the Middle region, 42,633 acres; Western region, 17,306 acres; 

 Southern region, 17,092 acres; Pacific region, 213,230 acres; for the territory 

 outside of these divisions, 60,000 acres. Total area, 401,261 acres. 

 Excluding the acreage of the Pacific division we have 188,031 acres for 

 American grapes, assuming that all of the grapes grown on the Pacific 

 Coast belong to Vitis vinijcra. 



It is interesting to note that in 1890 four-fifths of the grapes grown in 

 the Eastern region, New York and Pennsylvania, were for table use and that 

 in round numbers the production for this purpose amounted to 60,687 tons, 

 requiring 5000 cars for transportation. Of grapes sold to wineries there 



* U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Special Report, N'o. 36. 1880. 



