MARKETING EASTERN GRAPES. 45 



viously contracted tonnage below their requirements. No small de- 

 gree of dissatisfaction. is felt among many of the growers over these 

 methods. • 



The table-stock industry is being developed at present. Several 

 movements are under way toward the formation of cooperative asso- 

 ciations among the growers. These are deterred somewhat by the 

 laws of the State, which limit the development of this type of organi- 

 zation to straight stock companies. An association organized on this 

 basis in the Dover section has conducted the selling for its members 

 very successfully, usually holding the grapes until late in the season 

 and then selling to wine or juice factories. Large amounts of the 

 stock are hauled in wagons and trucks to the Cleveland market, which 

 is a heavy grape consumer. In fact, nearly all the large cities of the 

 State receive some of their supplies from near-by growers, who sell 

 direct to jobbers on the " street." 



The distribution of Ohio shipments, most of which originate in the 

 Unionville section, is extremely narrow. In 1918 shipments went to 

 only seven different cities in Ohio, though 1 car each went to three 

 neighboring cities situated in Indiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. 



THE MIDDLE WEST. 



Location of Producing Sections. 



In several scattered sections of the middle western territory, grape 

 growing is a specialized industry, but nowhere does it assume the 

 importance that it reaches in New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, or 

 Ohio. In the Missouri Valley section, which comprises those parts 

 of Buchanan County, Mo., Doniphan County, Kans., Pottawattamie 

 County, Iowa, and Douglas County, Nebr., adjacent to the river, 

 the grape industry of the Middle West reaches its highest commer- 

 cial development, with the Ozark section of Washington County, 

 Ark., and Newton County, Mo., and the independent sections of Lee 

 County, Iowa, and Taney County, Mo., next in order of importance. 

 Grapes are grown to some extent in practically all parts of the Mid- 

 dle West, but in few sections, other than those named above, does the 

 industry assume much more than garden proportions. 



Table 8 shows the loading of full cars at the various stations 

 throughout this territory as reported to the Bureau of Markets by 

 the various originatine: railroads. 



