Grape Products

Over-production, with the attendant losses caused by glutted markets,

is a factor which, like frosts and freezes, is ever in the mind of the

grape-grower. No season passes but that some of the grape regions of

the country suffer from over-production. Not uncommonly the grape

industry in a region is better off in a season when the crop is small

and prices high, than when the crop is large and prices low. In every

part o the country where grapes are grown, over-production has been a

great deterrent to viticulture; this, in spite of the fact that

grape-growers have availed themselves of the opportunity to

manufacture products from this fruit. Thus, wine and raisins are made

from the grape in California, and a large part of the harvest in the

East goes into wine, champagne and grape-juice. But the growth of

prohibition now threatens the wine and champagne industries of the

country, in fact may be said to have driven them to the wall, making

the need of new outlets in manufactured products a greater necessity.



Under these conditions, grape-growers must seek in every way to

enlarge the sale of the crop to manufacturers with the hope that thus,

together with more perfect distribution of his commodities, the

inroads made by prohibition on the industry may be offset and the

over-production of table-grapes be better prevented. With this brief

emphasis on the importance of manufactured products of the grape, we

approach the discussion of the several possible outlets to

over-production in this fruit.