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yiously contracted tonnage beknv 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, fs 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 originating railroads. 
