44 BULLETIN" 861, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table 7. — Carloadings of grapes in Ohio. 



Ashtabula Co., Sept.-Oct. 



Amboy 



Ashtabula 



Conneaut 



Geneva 



Saybrook 



Ashtabula Co. total 



Cuyahoga Co., Sept.-Nov.: 

 Dover 



Erie Co., Oct.: 



Berlin Heights 



Ceylon 



Vermillion 



Erie Co. total. 



Geauga Co., Oct.: 



Chardon 



1916 



1917 



1918 



1919 







1 











1 















3 











1 



9 



12 



6 



3 



3 















16 



13 



6 



4 



31 



43 











2 



4 



2 



5 



2 



1 







1 



9 



23 



3 



12 



13 



28 



5 



18 



1 















Lake Co., Sept.-Nov.: 



Madison 



Perry 



Unionville 



Lake Co. total... 



Lorain Co., Sept.-Oct.: 

 Avon 



Ottawa Co., Sept.-Oct, 



Danbury 



Gypsum 



Port Clin ton 



Putin Bay 



Ottawa Co. total 



Ohio State total. 



1910 



19 

 51 



104 



258 



1917 



215 



1918 



25 



1919 



Acreage and Varieties. 



Taking the State as a whole, the Concord occupies the bulk of 

 the acreage, but in all the lake counties, particularly Erie and San- 

 dusky, the Catawba is relatively very important. The proportion of 

 the Delaware and the Niagara, particularly in Cuyahoga and Lorain 

 Counties, is also larger than in most other commercial sections. 



No figures are available as to the acreage or average yield, but 

 two facts are apparent: (1) That the acreage has been materially 

 reduced by the combined effects of the recent severe winters and the 

 ravages of the rootworm, which is particularly destructive in many 

 parts of the State ; and (2) that the average yield is much lower than 

 in other commercial sections, due principally to the large, partially 

 abandoned, acreage and also in part to the large proportion of va- 

 rieties, such as the Catawba, the Delaware, and the Niagara, which 

 are relatively light yielders. 



At one time grape growing assumed considerable importance in the 

 southern part of the State along the Ohio River, but these vineyards 

 have long ceased to figure in commercial shipments. 



Methods of Sale and Market Outlets. 



As might be expected in a State where such a large proportion of 

 the stock has been consumed by wine and juice factories, the contract 

 type of sale predominates. As a general rule, these factories have 

 not bought their required tonnage at the market price, as in New 

 York and Michigan, but at a price agreed to early in the season, 

 before the grapes matured. These establishments entered the market 

 at picking time only when a short crop year cut down their pre- 



