Racemus 5
Radiator 147
Rain 12, 32, 55, 61
Raisin Districts 10
Raisin Grapes 87
Raisin Packers 214
Raisins 5
Raisins, Import of 178
Raisin Vineyards 30, 38, 104
Raysins of Corauntz 23
Reasons 5
Red Currants 91
Redding 44
Redlands 48, 202, 203, 204
Red Raisins 176, 177
Red Spider 100
Retoria 16
Reversing 141
Reysin 5
Ringing the Branches 27, 123
Rinsing 150
Ripeness 135
Ripening 31, 33, 50
Riverside 39, 48, 134, 199, 200, 201
Roberts, Lewis 22
Ronda 12
Roof-stacking 143
Rooted Vines 106, 112, 179
Root-pruning 129
Rosedale 45
Rosine 5
Ross, Newton 51
Rotterdam Colony 182
Royal, Finest Dehesa 15
Saccharine 134
Salt 73
Salt River Valley 134
Samos 31
San Bernardino 39, 48
San Diego 55, 192
Sandy Soils 70
Sanger 45
San Joaquin Valley 44, 181
Santa Ana 14, 52, 55, 134, 145, 190
Santa Maura 24, 29
Scalding 19
Scales 154
Seabreezes 31
Secadero 19
Second Crop 136
Seedless Grapes 9, 90
Seepage 84
Selma 45, 214
Sequero 14
Shasta County 44
Sheep’s-foot 88, 130
Slanting the Trays 142
Smirna 9
Smyrna Raisins 10, 30, 176
Soils 12, 16, 25, 37, 41, 45, 49, 53, 56, 60, 67, 68, 69, 70
Solano 41
Solis 9, 10
Spades 131
Spring Frost 64
Spring Rain 60, 62
Stabler, B. G. 89
Stacking 142, 144
Stanchio 31
Stationers Company 6
Statistics 169
Stems 136
Stemming 151, 154, 158, 180
Stevens, W. E. 32, 35, 61
Stock for Grafting 121
Strentzel, Dr. J. 138
Subirrigation 83
Subsoil 70
Suckering 129
Sulphates 73
Sulphuring 47, 121, 131, 180
Sultana Raisins 6, 9, 10, 45, 135, 177
Summer Pruning 128
Sun-dried Raisins 9, 10
Surface Water 48
Sutro, Adolph 216
Sutro Library 216
Sutter County 43
Sweatboxes 148, 180
Sweat-house 153
Sweating 162
Sweetwater Valley 55, 59
Taking-up 143
Tehama County 44
Temperature 31, 48
Terral 18
Thermalito 44
Thinning the Grapes 123
Thompson Seedless 10, 43, 91
Tin Boxes 158
Tools 106, 130
Tray-catcher 140
Trays 20, 148, 156, 157
Trieste 29
Trifylla 30
Trimming 167
Trucks 131, 137, 157, 160
Tulare 45, 214
Turkish Raisins 92
Turning 140, 180
Tying-over 122
Tyra 31
Uncinula 93, 94
Uva Alexandria 11
Uva Apiariæ 7, 11
Uva Muscæ 11
Uva Passa 26
Uva Zibeba 11
Valencia raisins 9, 10, 15, 21, 175, 176
Varieties of Grapes 13, 35, 37
Velez Malaga 8
Venetians 6
Vergel 16
Villa Joyosa 15
Vine Plague 96
Vostizza 24, 29
Vourla 31, 176
Ward, C. T. 89
Weed-cutter 116
Weeks, George F. 216
Weighing 164
West, W. B. 216
White Corinths 45, 91
White, T. C. 38, 122, 156, 209, 210, 216
Wickson, E. J. 216
Winds 65
World’s Production 177
Yerly 31, 176
Yield 13, 55
Yolo 41
Yuba 43
Zante 23, 29
Zea 67
Additional Notes for 1890.
The first crop suffered considerably from mildew and climatic conditions
unfavorable to the setting of the grapes. The second crop, however, is
large and very good, and altogether the yield is a satisfactory one. The
prices have ruled higher than before and raisins in sweatboxes have been
contracted for readily at from 5½ to 6½ cents per pound or even higher.
Wine grapes dried here sold for 3 to 4 cents per pound, and Malaga and
Feherszagos raisins have brought from 4 to 5 cents. No such prosperous
year has before been experienced by the raisin men of this State, and
reports come in that many growers are realizing from $250 to $450 per
acre from vines in full bearing.
The weather all through the summer has been unusually temperate and thus
very favorable to the full development of the grapes, and so far the
drying weather has been very favorable for the proper curing of the
raisins. Many new packing houses have been established, and the crop is
being better cared for than in previous years. The health and general
condition of the vines is better than it was last year and the vine
plague is less virulent, and according to some reports even on the
retrograde. The demand for the raisin product has never been as large as
now and there will apparently be no surplus left over, as the demand is
rapidly increasing. The above refers especially to the central part of
the State, to Merced, Fresno, Tulare and Kern counties, where the
prosperous season will encourage increased planting. In Southern
California the crop will be fair both in quality and quantity. In El
Cajon valley it is reported as very good, and as being one-half larger
than last year. Prices here ruled to begin with at from 4½ to 5 cents
but rose rapidly to 5½ and 6 cents in sweatboxes.
The duty on raisins has this fall been raised from 2 cents to 2½ cents
per pound, which insures an additional profit to the raisin men.
* * * * *
_Rain-fall of 1889-90._--The rain-fall of 1889-90 in the Central and
Northern raisin districts of California was as follows:
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|Oct.|Nov.|Dec.|Jan.|Feb.|Mar.|Apr.|May.|Total.
------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+------
Fresno|3.10|1.43|3.80|2.16| .65| .92| .29| .25|12.60
Tulare|4.17| .43|2.60|2.75| .74| .81| .22| .20|11.92
Kern |2.04| .22|1.75|1.20| .16| .24| | .06| 5.67
Yolo |8.14|3.04|9.62|6.36|3.69|3.35|1.60|2.21|37.41
Yuba |5.87|3.73|9.01|4.44|4.65|6.71|1.85|2.55|38.81
======+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+======
The above figures are from the “tables of rainfall in the principal
agricultural counties” of California, compiled and published by Albert
Montpelier, Esq., Manager of the Grangers’ Bank, San Francisco, but no
report is made of the rain-fall in the counties of San Bernardino and
San Diego, and statistics of those counties are not at hand.
* * * * *
_Duty on Raisins._--The revised tariff of 1890 makes the duty on
imported raisins 2½ cents per pound, an increase of ½ cent on the old
schedule. Currants, Zante and others, are now on the free list and pay
no duty.
~RAISIN BOXES, RAISIN TRAYS, SWEAT BOXES.~