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species has been made and remarkable successes have accompanied 

 our breeding investigations, resulting in self-fertile vines, the first 

 ■of their kind so far known, as well as a number of remarkably 

 promising crosses between Rotundifolia and Vinifera and American 

 Euvitis. Our pruning and training experiments bid fair to revolu- 

 tionize the methods heretofore practiced with Muscadines. 



In the Vinifera regions, we are making a comprehensive test of 

 resistant varieties of vines to determine their adaptability to the 

 different vineyard soils and climatic conditions; we are ascertain- 

 ing the congeniality of the Vinifera to different resistant stock 

 varieties; we are determining the varieties best adapted to differ- 

 ent localities and uses; all classes of grapes are being tested with 

 reference to their resistance to insects and diseases .which ha^•e 

 been doing serious injury to the vineyard, and if found necessary 

 will undertake to originate an entirely new class of grapes better 

 adapted to Pacific Coast conditions. These researches are well 

 under way and a number of important determinations have already 

 been made. 



Growth of the Industry. 



The recent growth of the industry has been remarkable as is 

 shown by the following figures : 



In 1901, 7,635 car loads; in 1914, 14,273 carloads of table grapes 

 -were shipped. In 1901, 31,050; in 1914, 49,685 cases of grapes 

 were canned; in 1901, 74,000,000 pounds; in 1914, 196,000,000 

 pounds of raisins were cured. In 1901, 1,688,500 gallons; in 1914, 

 6,765,119 gallons of grape brandy were produced. In 1901, 

 37,250,000, in 1914, 48,900,000 gallons of wine and unfermented 

 grape juice were made. In 1900, there were about 275,000 

 acres; in 1914, 450,000 acres in grapes. In 1900 value of crop 

 .about $14,090,000; in 1914, $41,500,000. In 1900, 1,300,750,000 

 pounds, in 1914, 2,750,000,000 pounds of grapes were produced. 

 This shows that in a little more than a decade the Viticultural 

 Industry of the United States has more than doubled itself and now 

 represents an investment of at least $300,000,000, giving employ- 

 ment to 150,000 persons and yielding an income for grapes and their 

 products of nearly 850,000,000 per annum. 



