To the Grape Growers of the South Shore of Lake Erie. 



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ating majority of Pennsylvania grape 

 growers, with premiums due and un- 

 paid to Ohio exhibitors, adopted a 

 resolution changing the name of the 

 organization to the Pennsylvania 

 State Grape Growers' Association ? 



Nor do the undersigned object to 

 associations whose jurisdiction is de- 

 termined by State lines. New York 

 has its " State Grape Growers' Asso- 

 ciation," which, thus far in its career, 

 has been an eminent success, and is 

 prosperous tcithout State aid. Ohio, 

 by the recent cottp cVctat at Cleveland, 

 has, without warning, had an associa- 

 tion ready made presented to it, which 

 hopes, vnth State aid, to become a 

 useful adjunct to gi'ape culture in that 

 State. State associations can mate- 

 rially advance the prosperity of the 

 grape growing interest, even though 

 a comparison of results in localities 

 widely apart in latitude, and possess- 

 ing but little in common as respects 

 soil, situation and climatic and at- 

 mospheric influences, will often fail 

 to prove instructive to grape growers 

 in all parts of the State. But, in the 

 existence of an association having a 

 jurisdiction co-extensive with grape 

 lands possessing the same general 

 geographical situation, with the same 

 soil and climate, there is an eminent 

 fitness. AVithin such natural bound- 

 aries, there is a unity of interest not 

 affected by the arbitrary division of 

 the country into States and countries ; 

 and a frequent interchange of views 

 by grape growers, thus situated, can- 

 not fail to be instructive and beneficial. 

 It was with these sentiments that 

 the grape growers, who assembled at 

 Erie, organized anew the Lake Shore 

 Grape Growers' Association. Much 



to their regret, there was but a single 

 representative of Ohio present — the 

 secretarj^ of the Ohio State Grape 

 Growers' Association — who found 

 fault because the new organization 

 had determined to adopt a name 

 which the association he represented 

 had discarded ; but the undersigned 

 express the sentiments of all their 

 associates when they say that, it is 

 their earnest wish to have the co-op- 

 eration of all grape growers on the 

 south shore of Lake Erie in the move- 

 ment, which has been so propitiously 

 inaugurated ; and they hope that, by 

 the next annual meeting, accessions 

 to the association from Ohio will be 

 had to enable her territory to be fully 

 represented in the body and in its 

 executive board. 



Already many letters have been 

 received from Ohio grape growers 

 expressing their sj^mjjathy in the 

 movement, and regretting their in- 

 ability to be present at the organi- 

 zation. Further correspondence is 

 invited, in the desire to once more 

 have an esprit de corps established 

 among those who can have but a com- 

 mon interest in this great and grow- 

 ing branch of American industry. 



In conclusion, the undersigned beg 

 leave to ask your attention to the 

 language of the preamble to the Con- 

 stitution of the new Lake Shore 

 Grape Growers' Association, which,, 

 having been unanimously adopted,, 

 may be justly considered as express- 

 ing the views and wishes of those who 

 were in attendance; and they desire 

 to give renewed assurances that, re- 

 gardless of what occurred at Cleve- 

 land, and the mortification which the 

 New York and Pennsylvania grape 



