GRAPE 



Marketing and Pioftts —The crop i^ mostlj marketed 

 fresh in the local oi near 1 \ nmkits is the uliniij 

 freight and express rate \ ill [ | ti 1 1 i 



turns on the % arietics m i 1 ! 



demonstrated that fane ( i \ II i 



easily be grown m the bt III I I II I iii I t 



manner in neat baskets, ai | ji ji i li 



There are a few establishi_ 1 \\\u u m the bouth, 

 which use Ives, Norton \ ii^iuia Hti))emont, LeNoir 

 and some of the Scuppernon„' and i thi r Muscadme va 

 rieties. The chief complaint of wine j^rowers is that 

 legislation brought about bj the prohibition movement is 

 adverse and often entirely prohibiti\ e In cousequent-e 

 some have bottled the luice fresh under some stenhzin^ 

 process, but the people aienot jet educated up to the 

 use of this escelleut healtlitul nourishing beverage, 

 yet the demand for it is growing, and may be largely 

 increased by enterprising makers. 



Reports collected from all parts of the South state the 

 profits all the way from nothing up to $150 per acre, 

 sometimes higher and it is clearlv evident that the in 

 telligence and enteiprise of the planter is tilt ( hief ele 

 ment in controlling pi ciflt Of cours licilitips soils 



[Ttv |,nirl,t .1 t I 1 



kins C rapes m I i 1 1 



about one cent i i 



pound baskets ( ii i ii | I i i i i i nt 



Diamond Nia^ai i 1\ mm 1 ml ili i i lil ^^tod 

 qualities and get from oU to jU cents pel basket the 

 season through with brisk sales and no grumbling 



It ma> be said, in conclusion, that the South piomises 

 everything to the wide awake intelligent Grape grower 

 for its capabilities are unlimited in the production in 

 quality and season when no other section competes 

 with it, and it has vast markets at home and in the 

 great cities just north of it. T. V. Munson. 



Grapes on the Pacific Slope. Tli.' i ;im'- lii.lu-trics of 

 California are estal)lishi-a ;,,-: : - i flu' viiiif- 



era species. There arr t-A. > -. : I [ . ■■ ■ m th.- state, 



677 



were mtro 



and a new i i I 



with moic s 



earnestly til i i i i 



ally and tli t ti I i i I ' „ 1 



cellar constiuctuu ui tli. ^ all \s lu 1 t thills all o\ ei 

 the state The pioduct increased more rapidly than the 

 demand for it, and the quality of much of it was ! 



V ^. 



fully impeached. Losses and disappointments were 

 again encountered, and the area of wine Grapes was 

 largely reduced by abandonment, by the advancement 

 of the phylloxera and by the inroads of a peculiar dis- 

 ease which has baffled effort i<' I i i.. ; its cause, 

 though thousands of acres hav. . ay by it. 



Even the lessened wine produr I i i , . .iite trade 

 issues to meet, which were i. r.cime by 



growers' cool'!, ■., I , r I; ; i; ' t , shrinking 



work aiUL 

 in Europe 



the centur 



bids fair t( 



The rais 



rapidity until 1891, when a pro 

 was reached and a decline o 

 production ensued. As events 



liven followed by 

 ,^li control of the 

 of tlie growers. 



they do no 

 ery few pack 



American varieties fort 

 for raisins. The only ; 



era yiueyards will bo upon American roots. 



Grape-growing upon a large scale began in California 

 very soon after the American occupation. In the fifties. 



fruit shipment. The area of Grapes in ( 'ali- 

 )0 is about 140,000 acres: one-seventh table 

 -sevenths raisin Grapes and four-sSvenths 

 i, as nearly as can be estimated. 



' !i:i- :i \'.:'i' r laMge of adaptation in Cali- 



iriiit. It endures all eleva- 



: !, : I I luit-growing is carried; it 



■ I r- 1 n:. I, . ■.nil. -y heat if amply supplied 



in the valleys and on 

 will bear well with sn 

 stumps and very ^Ikpt 

 all of the previous sea- 

 are given longer cane 

 high stake. 



