_Labels._--I cannot finish this part without adding some words about our labels. It is of importance that our labels and colored lithographs should be appropriate. The time has come when our raisins should stand upon their own merits, and should be designated with appropriate names. I should wish to see only California names used, California layers instead of London layers, California scenes instead of foreign scenes, which give no idea of our conditions, and which do not help to advertise our State and its resources. Whatever our labels may represent, they should be distinctly Californian. Another point which is but seldom observed on these labels is the shape and color of our raisin grapes. The latter are often represented on the labels, but their shape is seldom observed. Nowhere have we seen on them a true Gordo Blanco or a true Muscat of Alexandria represented, the grapes there pictured being impossible as raisin grapes, or even well-known wine or table grapes, out of which no raisins could be made. The packer has a right to protest against such misrepresentations of our fair grapes, especially as the lithographer could just as readily and just as cheaply have followed the originals. A beautiful label is well worth its price. As a work of art, it is seldom thrown away, but is carefully kept and made to adorn the walls of many a humble home, in which the name and fame of our State will soon be a household word. Let these labels go out by the million yearly to tell of our climate and of our soil, and of the land where the luscious raisins are produced, with the same care as apples or garden stuff in countries less favored by nature. STATISTICS OF IMPORTATION, PRODUCTION AND PRICES. _Production of Raisins in California from to 1889:_ Twenty- pound boxes. 1873 6,000 1874 9,000 1875 11,000 1876 19,000 1877 32,000 1878 48,000 1879 65,000 1880 75,000 1881 90,000 1882 115,000 1883 140,000 1884 175,000 1885 500,000 1886 700,000 1887 800,000 1888 963,000 1889 1,000,000 The California crop, from 1885 to 1889, was divided between the various raisin districts of the State about as follows: