Excerpt from The California Vine Disease: A Preliminary Report of Investigations The requirements of the United States for raisins and for wine are in advance of the amount which California can at present produce. This is more especially true of the demand for raisins. The raisin crop of 1890 is given as pounds. The imports for the year ending June 30, 1890, are given in the report of the Treasury Department as pounds. The present demand for raisins, therefore, is more than double the home supply. This is not the limit of the growth of this industry, for the consumption per capita of raisins in the United States is much below the amount liable to be consumed in the future; and an immediate and abundant supply of this healthful product will result in a large increase in consumption. The increase of population will constantly call for an increased production; and it may be said that the demands of the country are much in excess of the domestic supply, and that the acreage of raisin grapes might be largely increased with safety. This does not take into account our growing ability to compete for trade in Canadian or other foreign markets.
The wine supply of the United States is more nearly equal to the demand than is the supply of raisins. About gallons of wine and its products were imported in 1890, while the Californian output was gallons. The importation Should be largely cut off in the future by the Californian product. It is also probable that the in crease in the wine trade due to the normal growth in consumption will more and more gravitate to California for the better class of wines, rather than remain in the East, where only native grapes are grown, or go to foreign vine growers. At present between and gallons of wine are produced from the American varieties of grapes.
The market for Californian-grown table grapes is large and is capable of great expansion. The total crop of table grapes in the United States for 1890 was over tons, of which only tons were produced in California. It can hardly be questioned that much more of this total consumption will eventually be supplied by California vine-growers. Importations will also be largely replaced with California-grown fruit.
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The wine supply of the United States is more nearly equal to the demand than is the supply of raisins. About gallons of wine and its products were imported in 1890, while the Californian output was gallons. The importation Should be largely cut off in the future by the Californian product. It is also probable that the in crease in the wine trade due to the normal growth in consumption will more and more gravitate to California for the better class of wines, rather than remain in the East, where only native grapes are grown, or go to foreign vine growers. At present between and gallons of wine are produced from the American varieties of grapes.
The market for Californian-grown table grapes is large and is capable of great expansion. The total crop of table grapes in the United States for 1890 was over tons, of which only tons were produced in California. It can hardly be questioned that much more of this total consumption will eventually be supplied by California vine-growers. Importations will also be largely replaced with California-grown fruit.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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