2 BULLETIN 349, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
State to successfully produce raisins. This was in 1867, but it was 
not until 1873 that their raisin crops became an important factor in 
the market, when they amounted to nearly 6,000 boxes. In 1873 
Judge J. W. North planted the first Alexandria (J/uscat of) grapes 
at Riverside, and three years later raisin-grape growing had become 
general. R. G. Clark planted Muscats in El Cajon Valley in 1873, 
but most of the vineyards of that district were not planted until 1884 
to 1886. In the fall of 1873, 25 acres of Alexandria were planted 
in the Eisin vineyards near Fresno, and in 1875 the McPherson 
brothers made their first plantings near McPherson. The industry 
grew so that Robert McPherson, the largest grower, became at one 
time not only the largest packer and dealer in the district but the 
largest then in the State. In 1876 W.S. Chapman imported material 
of the best obtainable Muscat grapes for the Central California 
Colony in Fresno County, which, however, proved to be the same as 
those planted in 1873. In 1876 and 1877 T. C. White planted the 
Raisina vineyard with Gordo Blanco (muscatel), and in 1877 and 
1878 Miss M. F. Austin planted the same variety at the Hedge Row 
vineyard. Cuttings of Sultanina were received in 1878 by W. T. 
Thompson, of Yuba City, Cal., from Elwanger & Barry, Rochester, 
N. Y., and described by them as the Lady de Coverly, from Con- 
stantinople. The so-called Feher Szagos is said to have been found 
growing in California and was christened by a Hungarian, who 
claimed to recognize the variety as one he had known in his native 
land. The Butler vineyard, which was then one of the largest, was 
planted in 1879. Col. William Forsythe began raisin rowan: in 
1881 or 1882. 
In 1878 the entire State of California produced 120,000 pounds of 
raisins; in 1875, 220,000 pounds; in 1880, 1,500,000 pounds; and in 
1885, 9,400,000 pounds. In 1887 Fresno County produced 7,000,000 
pounds, and raisin growing was recognized to be its lence in- 
dustry. 
The figures in Table I, taken from the reports of the California 
State Board of Aig and the United States Department of 
Commerce, showing the California crop and the quantity and value 
of exports and imports, will prove interesting and serve to show the 
erowth of the industry. As the practice has been not to produce 
more than enough raisins to supply the demand, the difference be- 
tween the crop produced and the quantity exported will show the 
consumption of home-grown raisins in this country. It is also of 
interest to note, as shown in this table, that in general as the produc- 
tion of raisins in California has increased exports have increased 
and imports have correspondingly decreased. 

