50 BULLETIN" 861, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
As far as the American grape industry goes, the Northwest is 
self-sufficing, -as very few shipments from the outside go into this 
section and practically all of the stock produced in Washington, 
Idaho, and Oregon is consumed within the borders of those States. 
As in other important American grape-growing sections, the Con- 
cord is the leading variety, but the Niagara, Delaware, Goethe, and 
Catawba are also found, the Catawba extending southward into 
California. Because the large city markets in this section are far 
removed from any other section which ships American grapes, out- 
side competition is eliminated and the local stock moves easily at 
satisfactory prices. 
The great bulk of the shipments consist of table stock, which is 
usually shipped in 4-quart Climax baskets, but a juice factory located 
at Kennewick, Wash., offers an outlet for much local stock and also 
receives carlot shipments. 
MARKET PREFERENCE. 
It is a well-recognized fact that different markets often have wide 
divergent preferences both as to container and as to varieties of the 
stock they demand, and as the shipment of table grapes will un- 
doubtedly be increased by the suspension of wine manufacture, the 
preferences of various markets become an important subject to grow- 
ers and shippers. This preference is usually the result of custom, 
in that the trade and the consumer have become accustomed to 
purchase certain varieties in certain-sized containers and will not 
purchase stock with which they are not familiar, except at a dis- 
count. Whether the quantity of bulk stock used in the consuming 
centers will continue to bear the same relation to the movement of 
table stock that it has in the past, is highly problematical. 
Chicago is, next to New York, probably the heaviest individual 
receiver of eastern grapes, and the bulk stock passing through this 
market has nearly equaled the amount of table stock. By far the 
heaviest receipts upon this market are of Michigan stock, much of 
which is shipped in by water. Undoubtedly the fact that Michigan 
uses 4-quart baskets almost exclusively for table stock has led to a 
marked preference for that type of container, so that the 2-quart 
package is in very poor demand on this market and sells much below 
the usual proportionate price of these two sizes in other cities. The 
standard blue varieties, the Champion 5 the Moore, and the Concord, 
are the favorites, in season, the first named selling at the usual 
marked discount when in competition with other varieties. The 
Delaware and the Niagara meet a good but very limited demand 
and command a slight premium when in light supply, which is 
quickly wiped out by the arrival of a*ny considerable quantity. This 
