Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-09-06
CAaaGGRSaA AND NEVADA.
Crepe Culture VS.. Alfalfa Hais-

ktensiyely through the wine districts
ri the State, and was able to com
mare the difference between raising
cranes in California and alfalfa IN
| Nevada.
Ii there is any well to-do or pass
iblv vel! TOGO farmer in this State
who wants to sell his alfalfa ranch
and 20 to California to start vine
ward. the writer advises hita to read
this article first.
The California wine-maker has
several knotty problems to contend
with If he proposes to he successful.
Ia the first place, good grape land,
unimproved, ia 500 an acre, with
oak forests, underbrush aud chap
paral growing on 1t. In this state
il costs $3.50 TO clear. The average
grape crop is Jour tons TO the acre,
which bring from IS to $40 > ton.
Tie vineyard needs the most con-
slant care. There has to be a squad
Of men tilling, pruning or picking
the year round, and behind all a
man with a big check book paying
out money.
Contrast this with land in Nevada
worth So an acre. and costing but
IS per acre to clear, which produces
i've tons Of alfalfa to the acre worth
SO a ton and upwards, and whlc!.
requires scarcely any care at all
after the first plsntinS, and which
phyllozera, blight or mildew cannot
touch.
The California grape raiser grows
gray with anxiety watching his
grape crop. A new bug appears IN
the field and he faints away; vine
curls up and dies and he sends 1t at
once to Prof. Hllgard to be exam
| ined to see what new disease has
reached his ranch cloud IN the
sky which threatens a storm and
ths ruinaton OF his crop, sends
him into four or five kinds Of fits.
The heat is simply awful-ll6 in
the shade, aud lie cannot 20 over
his ground except altar shutdown,
| tearing to be overcome with the
heat. He must employ Chinese la
Dor or nothing, IS no white man
can lndure such temperature, and
then he is boycotted ana ieered by
his neighbours.
The V inc industry OF California
is Just now in bad state. Some
wine is selling at eight cents gal
lon, shipped to san Francisco and
sent East after being doctered, as
slmr.. of California pure wine.
r~o-thiIis of the wine shipped
from California is not fit to drink,
AMI some isn'5 fl; for hog swill.
Men have rushed into the bust
ness witheut capital or experience,
and not being able to keep their
wines until they lave sufficient age.
rush them into the hands OF the
unscrupulous middIemen of San
Francisco, who 's.retch" them
with authorizations and send them
East on rs per cent. profit.
It is common thing to say that
| California wines are not adulter-
ated because they are 30 cheap it is
not necessary. The wines however
are adulterated to give them the APP
pearance of age, and these
"strstchea" wines will soen give
California such bad repetatlcn in
the East that her wines will cease
10 be sold. The wiaemakers do
not seem to have the sense to COM
bine ard fight the middlemen.
Ii they built a ware house OF
their own in San Francisco and kept
their wines there until they were
old enough to ship East they could
get decent prices. The amount
they would save in one year weuld
erect the ware house and soon place
them out Of the clutches of the ras-
cally miadlemen.
Schrem of St. Helena, sells every
gallon of wine he makes at 81 gal
lon direct to the consumer. He is
an old winemaker from Germany
and understands his business.
Green winemakers sell their wine
for % cants n gallon to the middle