358 ' GRAPE CULTURE AND 



Lake, 985 acres; Los Angeles, 17,000 acres; Marin, 493 acres; 

 Mariposa, 500 acres; Mendocino, 108 acres; Monterey, 500 

 acres; Napa, 14,431 acres; Nevada, 235 acres; Placer, 2,221 

 acres ; Sacramento, 6,465 acres ; San Benito, no acres ; San 

 Bernardino, 9,165 acres; San Joaquin, 1,739 acres ; San 

 Luis Obispo, 275 acres; San Mateo, 625 acres; Santa Bar- 

 bara, 527 acres ; Santa Clara, 9,423 acres ; Shasta, 147 acres ; 

 Siskiyou, 4 acres; Sonoma, 21,638 acres; Stanislaus, 498 

 acres; Sutter, 430 acres; Tehama, 4,972 acres; Trinity, 20 

 acres; Tulare, 1,229 acres ; Tuolumne, 890 acres ; Ventura, 

 800 acres; Yolo, 3,191 acres; Yuba, 165 acres. 



The Secretary of the State Viticultural Commission, Mr. 

 Clarence J. Wetmore, however, thinks this estimate altogether 

 too low, and estimates the number of acres, from information 

 received of the vineyard owners direct, at about 150,000. 

 The assesors have neglected in many cases to give the number 

 of acres for table, and market, and for wine. As far as re- 

 ported from about forty counties, there are 13,760 acres of 

 table grapes, and 59,036 acres of wine grapes. 



In this connection, the wine product of the State for the 

 past ten years will be of interest. It is as follows: 



In 1876, 3,750,000 gallons; 1877, 4,000,000 gallons; 

 1^78, 5,000,000 gallons; 1879, 5,000,000 gallons; 1880, 

 8,500,000 gallons ; 1881, 7,000,000 gallons; 1882, 10,000,- 

 ooo gallons; 1883, 8,500,000 gallons; 1884, 15,000,000 

 gallons; 1885, 9,000,000 gallons; 1886, 18,000,000 gallons. 



The crop of 1887 is estimated at about 16,000,000 gallons; 

 although there is a largely increased acreage, the crop was cut 

 short in many sections by frost and coulure, and still more so 

 by the prevailing hot weather and drying winds during the 

 vintage, which caused the grapes to dry up and yield much 

 less juice to the ton than in preceding vintages; from one hun- 

 dred and ten to one hundred and twenty gallons to the ton 

 being the average, against one hundred and forty to one hun- 



