14 BULLETIN 952, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
8-ounce glasses, retailing at about 15 cents a glass. The price of dry 
apple pomace in January, 1921, was 24 cents a pound; on this basis 
grape pomace should cost about a cent less. Since the only other 
ingredient is sugar, it follows that the prices of the two finished 
products should be approximately the same. 
There should be no difficulty in marketing this jelly, since grape 
jelly is well hked, and the reason it does not fill a greater place in 
the dietary is largely on account of the high price. If, therefore, 
grape skins are utilized for this purpose it is evident that the jelly 
could be sold about as cheaply as apple jelly and yet return a satis- 
factory profit. The wholesale value of the total quantity of jelly 
capable of being manufactured from the grape skins available an- 
nually (3,300 tons) would be more than $2,000,000. 
The net profit in handling grape waste will vary according to the 
plan of utilization adopted. ‘These plans may be stated as follows: 
(1) To separate the seed from the wet pomace at each factory, sell the seed, 
and manufacture the jelly immediately from the wet skins. 
(2) To dry-the pomace, separate and sell the seed, and manufacture ‘ie , jelly 
from the dry skins during the season when the presses would otherwise be idle. 
(3) To dry the pomace, separate the seed and skins, and sell both. 
Plan No. 1.—Since 1 dozen glasses of jelly can be made from 
about 4 pounds of wet skins, 1,000 tons of grapes (producing 150 
tons of wet skins) would yield approximately 75,000 dozen 8-ounce 
glasses. Ata selling price of $1.50 a dozen the gross returns would 
be $112,500. The cost to manufacture this quantity of jelly (which 
will be given in detail! later) amounts to $87,000, leaving a net profit 
on the jelly of $25,500. A thousand tons of grapes produces about 
50 tons of seed, which would bring approximately $500. The total 
profit, therefore, in plan No. 1 would be $26,000. 
Plan No. 2—As in plan No. 1, the yield of jelly from 1,000 tons 
of grapes would be approximately 75,000 dozen glasses and ie eTross 
returns the same, $112,500. To the cost for manufacturing the Fela 
($87,000) must be added that. for drying and bagging the pomace 
(200 tons), which is approximately $1,800, making the total cost 
$88,000. The net profit on the jelly in this case would therefore be 
$23,700. Here again the seed would bring approximately $500, Goals 
ing a total mnie in plan No. 2 of $24, 200. 
Dune plan No. 2 is not quite as profitable as plan No. 1, it is 
far more “sine nedule. since it utilizes the presses during the winter 
months when otherwise they would be idle. 
Plan No, 3.—Here the pomace is dried and both seed and skins 
are sold, so that no cost for manufacture is involved. The dry 
skins, delivered at a utilization center (jelly factory), would bring 
about $24 a ton. This includes $9 a ton for drying and $5 a ton for 
hauling, leaving a net profit of $10 a ton, which on 75 tons of dried 
skins (150 tons of wet skins) would equal $750. To this must be 
