The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-07

Juice and too thin skinned to be shipped |
for table or dried. 1t is too sweet to
be used in grape juice, which is made
of sour grapes and depends on sugar tf |
give it body and sweetness. Moreover
other grape growers adequately handle |
the demand for grape juice, largely |
from New York vineyards. Grape juice |
made from wine grapes as an expert |
ment was pronounced too rich and !
sweet to suit popular taste. Grape sug
ar, another suggestion, has been de- |
elared impossible.
Private concerns are investigating
the prospects of non alcoholic winesi
from wine grapes Wines of this sort are
now made in large quantities in Italy,
according to representative of the
Anti-Saloon League. They do not
ferment, no matter how long they are
| kept. If this project should be sue
| cessful, and the products gain public
favor, the grape question would bel
| partly settled at least.
| Attention to side line grape prod
| uets, such as vinegar and potash, is
| recommended to the California grow
| ers. The department of agriculture
| states that the United States is ig-
| norant of nine-tenths of the uses to
| which grapes may be put. InEurope,
| the seed are used in making tapnin.
coloring matter, a coffee substitute and
soap and oil is extracted from them
Abundance of other materials in this
country does not tend TO make such
conservation popular, but considering
that the California grape crop averages
100000 tons, retaining the seed is a
project worth studying.
The government is now helping the
grape growers to take up the eul-
ture of other kinds of grapes. Hot
house grapes raised indoors in England
and Belgium and sold in this country
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 of grape
can be raised successfully there Mala.
ga grapes are only one variety not
grown in this country which the de
] 3artment Ct agriculture is urging upon
western grape growers as q practical
proposition. In a very few years, the
department. predicts, this country vii
produce all the Malaga cranes il needs
: | The main difficulty Is TO tide the grow
: ers over the next year or SO. The in
: reduction of new varieties of grape
!, % California soil may be highly sue
syarabi s'saea 1et vn ne @ ~
I, aot bear fruit for three years.
) The plan which seems most promis
! ing for the near future IS to~use on
= wine grapes for syrup. This schem
y has some drawbacks Wine grape
are not raised cheaply. and syrup mad
be Nights retail price is figured a
two dollars gallon. 1t cannot, there
fore. compete with cheaper syrups, an
= can succeed as a commodity only If
- market can be built up for it as a higl
I; grade syrup similar to maple sYrtI
81 Fruit Gamers will be urged to max
r use of it, as it is very sweet and til
:. Gamers already have machinery for il
= manufacture. It viii take several year
= 20 establish the market for grape sy1
up and make it popular. Still this I
.al the snost1 feasible use for the grape erol
=, 1t is the one advocated by governmeI
experts-and considered most favorabl
- by the growers, who are doubtful {
E. the suceess of any nlakeshift.
= As for the grain situation, over OF
ID hundretf million bushels of grain In,
been consumed each year in the pr
- duction of alcohol As all of the graf
thus used can be diverted into 9th
markets with little disturbance, the
viii be no apprecable loss to fau
ars who have been raising grain Il
the brewers and distillers. A mu,
smaller percentage Of the barley. ~
len and corn crops has gone into alcoh
ns than is generally supposed. Rye
FAR usually associated with whiskev fir
We land bread afterwards Yet nearly ha
led ref the rye produced in recent yea
S, has been milled into flour, while ON
Y. one-sixth has gone to distilleries. Or
. fourth Of the barley crop has be
lie used for alcohol The several millio
of bushels OF corn yearly dedicated
ale Baechus are a minute part of the Tn
ana ed States corn crop, which viii be a
For sorbed into the general corn market.
! q When. or if the nation goes dry. b;
- ley and rye VIII still be raised in Il
country. mainly for exports, feed, a
for use of our foreign populati,
sam Americans do not take kindly to /
Eve and barley Hour. Enforced use, of the
IL grains during the wheat shortage {
ICES not add TO their popularity In the G.
of barley, inferior flour was milled
Z. first, and by the time better graz
were produced, the American housew
was permanently preiudiccd. Norths
~ European peoples, especially Seandil
10 vians, Russians and Germans, create
Wv demand for rye and barley both in t
~ country and abroad.
S. Hops, which are grown in this COZ
VT try almost entirely for the brewing
- dustry, are more affected by the &C
ing dry regime than are the graf
Not even the hop growers know whe
er hop cultivation has future in
dry country That depends on fore
countries, particularly on Germany.
$50 Germany wins back her hop trade W
Ae' England, Japan, France and So
4. America, then the United States
f-ti growers will have almost no fore
. market for their product. If Germ;
is boyeotted, our hop industry
fiourish---maybe. Meantime, some