Show california raisin grape th raisin industry of promises to become very important and fairly remunerative The climate of the central and southern part of the state is most favorable for drying the fruit and there is the center of this enter prise the important factors in raishi in making ak g are a suitable variety of grape and a dry climate one not subject to dews logs fogs or rains for weeks while the fruit is drying though the region ot of california mentioned is not exempt from fogs and rains 74 they are infrequent and the necessity of protection to the drying fruit is sot not experienced often enough to make tint that feature of the work very burdensome the variety of grape from which the raisins are made frage is a t the e muscat of alex andria which is better known to most of our readers as the malaga grave grape of the shops which comes to us froal spain packed in cork dust in small casks A white grape makes a raisin of better color than a red or dark one though in europe both red and black varieties are used to some extent in santa clara clam county cal where the temperature at the drying season Is not iso ho high nor the air so dry as more southern countries the grape growers have resorted to the use or of dryers or evaporators and with success and the practice is extending many tons ol of raisins were made there in that manner last year the method is to expose to the fhe sun for a few days and then remove to the evaporator and finish up with a sow slow best beat |