Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-04

tons, retaining thes seed is project worth
studying.
The government is now helping the grape
growers to take up the culture of other kinds
of grapes. Hothouse grapes raised indoors in
England and Belgium and sold in this coun-
try for two and three dollars pound, can be
raised out-of-doors in California and placed
on the market at lower price In fact,
practically any variety or grape can be raised
successfully there. Malaga grapes are only
one variety not grown in this country which
the department of Agriculture is urging upon
western graTo growers as practical propo-
sitior,. In very few years, the department
predicts, this country will produce all the
Malaga grapes it needs. The main difficulty
is to tide the growers over the next year or
so. The introduction of varieties of
grapes to California soil may be highly sue
cessful eventually, but under the most favor
able circumstances the vines will not bear
fruit for three years.
The plan which seems most promising for
the near future is to our wine grapes for
syrup similar to maple syrup. Fruit Gamers
will be urged to make use of it, as it is very
sweet, and the Gamers already have machin-
cry for it's manufacture. 1t will take sever,
al years to establish the market for grape
syrup and make it popular. Still, this is the
most feasible use for the grape crop. 1t is
the one advocated by government experts and
considered most favoraby by the growers,
who are doubtful of the success of any make
shift
| AS for the grain situation, over one hun
dred million bushels of grain have been con-
sumed each year in production of alcohol. AS
all of the grain thus used can be diverted
| into other markets with little disturbance,
| there will be no appreciate loss to farmers
who have been raising grain for the brewers
and distillers. A much smaller percentage or
the barley, rye, and corn crops has gone into
alcohol than is generally supposed. Rye is
usually associated with whisky first and
| Vo+ Wv hoJr nF% hA
produced in recent years has Jeen milled into
| -four, while only one-sixth has gone to dis
| tilleres. One-fourth Of the barley crop has
been used for alcohol The several millions
of bushels of corn yearly dedicated to Bac-
chus are minute part of the United States
corn crop, which will be absorbed into the
general corn market.
When, or if, the nation goes dry, barley
and rye will still be raised in this country.
mainly for exports, feed, and for use OF our
foreign population. americans do not take
kindly to rye and barley -four. Enforced use
of the grains during the wheat shortage did
not add to their popularity. In the case or
barley, inferior flour was milled at first, a. "
by the time better grades were produced, the
| American housewife was permanently preJu-
diced Northern European peoples, especially
Scandinavians, Russians, and Germans,
create the demand for rye and barley both in
this country and abroad.
Hops, which are grown in this country al
most entirely for the brewing industry, are
more affected by the coming dry regime than
are the grains. Not even the hop growers
know whether hop cultivation has future
in dry country. That depends on foreign
countries, particularly Germany If
Garmeny wins back her hop trade with
England Japan, France, and South America,
then the United States hop growers will have
almost no foreign market for their product
If Germany is boycotted, our hop industry
will fourish-maybe. Meantime, some hop
growers enlarge their farms with wise air.
and others cautiously go out of business.