floor of five feet, large enough to be covered by the canvas six feet wide. The cost of canvas is six and one-half cents a yard by the bale. The manner of using the canvas is very simple. The canvas cover, which is stationary, is attached to the wire and the higher posts. Every evening the cover is thrown over the trays, the front or lower edge is hooked by the aid of the rings over the pegs in the ground, and the trays thus securely sheltered. In the morning, when the sun is up, the cover is thrown back over the higher posts, and the trays fully exposed. The trouble to cover is not very great; two men can cover forty tons of grapes in half an hour, and generally it is considered that the picking-gang can cover the whole crop in half an hour’s time every evening, and it takes them as long to uncover in the morning. If well cared for and properly dried, and stored away in the autumn after the crop is all in, this canvas cover, with its posts, will last six or seven years, and if painted or oiled would probably last still longer. One yard of canvas can cover thirty pounds of grapes, and for the purpose of utilizing the full space, the trays are made two and one-half by three feet. Such is the process practiced in Orange county. If adopted elsewhere, it would enable many localities to produce good raisins, where the climatic conditions are such that no drying is now practicable. The process is not as good as the one employed in Malaga, but it has some advantages which make it very acceptable. It enables the grower to use trays, and it makes drying-floors unnecessary, and the spaces in the vineyard can be used without taking away room from the vines. On the other hand, the drying-floors of Malaga are warmer and more secure, and almost absolutely safe in case of rain. _Drying-floors._--While, in some parts of California, the first crop dries generally without any difficulty, in other parts rain and dew very frequently interfere with the drying of even the first crop. In many places where raisin-curing is not successful, the same could be practiced profitably if we would adopt the system of drying-floors used in Spain. Even in localities where the first-crop raisins dry well, the second crop is always exposed to more or less rain, and the raisin-grower annually loses large sums of money on account of not being able to hasten the drying of the second crop. But it is doubtful if the Malaga drying-floors will ever be found practical and come into general use with us. They take considerable space from the vineyard, and are very expensive, but they are very secure, and when once built are very profitable. A limited number of such floors would be very useful in every vineyard, especially for drying the second crop. At present no such floors exist in this State. The following description gives an idea of how they may be constructed: