44 BULLETIN 861, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 7. — Carloadings of grapes in Ohio. 
1916 
1917 
191S 
1919 
I me 
1917 
191S 
1919 
Ashtabula Co., Sept.-Oct.: 
\mbov 

1 
3 
9 
3 
1 


12 




6 



1 
3 

Lake Co., Sept.-Xov.: 
Madison 
19 
51 
104 
18 
48 
39 
2 
11 
12 
10 
Perrv 
32 
31 
Lake Co. total 
Lorain Co., Sept.-Oct.: 
Savbrook 
174 
105 
25 
73 
Ashtabula Co. total. 
16 
13 
6 
4 
21 
16 
13 
Cuyahoga Co.. Sept -Nov.: 
Dover 
31 
43 
o 

j Ottawa Co., Sept.-Oct.: 
1 


1 
2 

2 
6 

1 
4 


Erie Co.. Oct.: 
Berlin HfiigMx 
2 
2 
9 
4 
1 
23 

3 
5 
1 
12 
Gypsum 
Port Clinton 

6 
Cevlon. . .T 
Put in Bav 

Ottawa Co. total. . . . 
Ohio State total 
2 
10 
5 
_ 
Erie Co. total 
13 
28 
5 
IS 
25S 
215 
54 
10S 
Geauga Co., Oct.: 
Chardon 
1 

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Acreage abb 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. 
Xo 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 axd 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- 
