CHAPTER XIV 

 GRAPE PRODUCTS 



OVER-PRODUCTION, with the attendant losses caused by 

 glutted markets, is a factor which, like frosts and freezes, is 

 ever in the mind of the grape-grower. No season passes but 

 that some of the grape regions of the country suffer from over- 

 production. Not uncommonly the grape industry in a region 

 is better off in a season when the crop is small and prices high, 

 than when the crop is large and prices low. In every part of 

 the country where grapes are grown, over-production has been 

 a great deterrent to viticulture ; this, in spite of the fact that 

 grape-growers have availed themselves of the opportunity to 

 manufacture products from this fruit. Thus, wine and raisins 

 are made from the grape in California, and a large part of the 

 harvest in the East goes into wine, champagne and grape-juice. 

 But the growth of prohibition now threatens the wine and 

 champagne industries of the country, in fact may be said to 

 have driven them to the wall, making the need of new outlets 

 in manufactured products a greater necessity. 



Under these conditions, grape-growers must seek in every 

 way to enlarge the sale of the crop to manufacturers with the 

 hope that thus, together with more perfect distribution of his 

 commodities, the inroads made by prohibition on the industry 

 may be offset and the over-production of table-grapes be 

 better prevented. With this brief emphasis on the importance 

 of manufactured products of the grape, we approach the dis- 



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