The Raisin Industry

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Author

Eisen, Gustavus A., 1847-1940

Title

The Raisin Industry A practical treatise on the raisin grapes, their history, culture and curing

Credits

Produced by MWS, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

SB: Agriculture: Plant culture

Subject

Viticulture -- California

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 54790

Release Date

May 26, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE RAISIN INDUSTRY.
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
4. 4.HISTORICAL. — RAISINS. — THE CURRANT. — MUSCATELS. — DEHESA RAISINS. — LEXIAS, OR LYE-DIPPED, AND OTHER RAISINS. — VARIOUS KINDS OF RAISINS.
5. 5.RAISIN DISTRICTS. — FOREIGN DISTRICTS. — RAISINS IN ANCIENT TIMES. — MODERN RAISIN DISTRICTS. — THE MALAGA DISTRICT. — VALENCIA AND DENIA. — CORINTH AND CURRANTS. — SMYRNA RAISINS. — ITALY AND ITALIAN RAISINS. — CHILE AND HUASCO RAISINS. — CALIFORNIA RAISIN DISTRICTS. — A GENERAL REVIEW. — YOLO AND SOLANO. — NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. — FRESNO AND SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. — SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY AND RIVERSIDE. — ORANGE COUNTY AND SANTA ANA. — SAN DIEGO AND EL CAJON. — OTHER RAISIN DISTRICTS.
6. 6.CLIMATIC CONDITIONS, SOILS, LOCATION AND IRRIGATION. — CLIMATIC CONDITIONS FAVORABLE AND UNFAVORABLE TO THE RAISIN INDUSTRY. — SOILS. — IRRIGATION.
7. 7.THE RAISIN GRAPES.
8. 8.DISEASES AND INSECT PESTS. — POWDERY MILDEW OR UNCINULA. — DOWNY MILDEW OR PERONOSPORA. — THE VINE PLAGUE. — LEAF-HOPPER ( Erythroneura comes ). — RED SPIDER. — CATERPILLARS. — BLACK-KNOT. — GRASSHOPPERS.
9. 9.THE RAISIN VINEYARD. — PLANTING. — PLOWING AND CULTIVATION. — GRAFTING THE MUSCAT ON OTHER STOCKS. — VARIOUS SUMMER WORK. — PRUNING. — VARIOUS VINEYARD TOOLS.
10. 10.DRYING AND CURING. — CALIFORNIA SUN-DRIED RAISINS. — CALIFORNIA LYE-DIPPED RAISINS.
11. 11.THE PACKING-HOUSE. — BUILDINGS AND MECHANICAL APPLIANCES. — LOOSE RAISINS. — LAYER RAISINS.
12. 12.STATISTICS OF IMPORTATION, PRODUCTION AND PRICES. — Production of Raisins in California from to 1889: — Number of Acres in Raisin Grapes in California in 1890: — California and Malaga Prices, Importations, etc., from 1871 to 1889: — Exports of Valencia Raisins from 1850 to 1889, according to English estimates: — Exports of Malaga Raisins from 1864 to 1889: — First Cost of Crop of Valencia Raisins, according to the “California Fruit Grower:” — Production and Distribution of Smyrna Raisins from 1844 to 1884, according to U. S. Consular Reports: — The World’s Raisin Production in 1889: — Statement Showing the Quantity and Value of Currants, Figs and Raisins Imported and Entered for Consumption in the United States from 1873 to 1878: — Statement Showing the Quantity and Value of Currants, Figs and Raisins Imported and Entered for Consumption in the United States, with Rates of Duty, etc., from 1879 to 1888: — Statement of Consumption of Currants and Raisins per Head of Total Population in 1884: — Prices Ruling in the California Raisin Districts:
13. 13.THROUGH THE CALIFORNIA RAISIN DISTRICTS. — THROUGH SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY TO FRESNO. — FROM LOS ANGELES TO SANTA ANA. — SANTA ANA TO SAN DIEGO. — EL CAJON. — RIVERSIDE. — REDLANDS. — AN HOUR IN A PACKING-HOUSE.
14. 14.RAISIN GROWERS AND THEIR VINEYARDS. — G. G. BRIGGS. — R. B. BLOWERS. — ROBERT McPHERSON. — T. C. WHITE. — MISS M. F. AUSTIN. — JOSEPH T. GOODMAN. — A. B. BUTLER. — WILLIAM FORSYTH. — A. D. BARLING. — FRANK H. BALL. — SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY RAISIN PACKERS, 1889.
15. 15.LITERATURE.
16. 16.INDEX
17. 17.Additional Notes for 1890.
18. 18.Transcriber’s Notes

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