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Many people make their living and gain wealth by cultivating the raisin grapes, and many people search for books to study the methods of cultivation, pruning, fixing, and packing while waiting for their vines to bear. This work on the raisin industry answers all the questions one has concerning raisin cultivation. The writer provides every detail related to raisins in the book. He starts by delivering a brief history and moves forward to describe the condition in which raisins thrive, the diseases that may affect the cultivation, their cures, etc. This treatise is of great interest to any individual wanting to start raisin cultivation or those who have succeeded in the field. Contents include: Historical Raisin Districts Climatic Conditions, Soils, Location and Irrigation The Raisin Grapes Diseases and Insect Pests The Raisin Vineyard Drying and Curing The Packing-house Statistics of Importation, Production and Prices Through the California Raisin Districts Raisin-growers and Their Vineyards
THE book about Raisins, grapes, and all their amazing history in America!Seriously, read this book, it has an enthralling amount of information, history, narratives of specific farmers and farms, and historical data on turn of the century American farming.
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Excerpt from The Raisin Industry: A Practical Treatise on the Raisin Grapes, Their History, Culture and Curing Of late years the raisin industry has been prominently before the horticulturists of California. Many people now make their living and acquire wealth by the cultivation of the raisin grapes, and many are now studying the methods of cultivation, pruning, curing and packing while waiting for their vines to bear. The literature of the raisin industry is a very scant one, and, with the exception of a few notices in works of travel, or in treatises on general fruit culture, we find not a single book in which this important and interesting industry is made the special subject of study and...
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