This 128-page book provides quick and easy facts to answer/respond to federal prohibition arguments as presented by various temperance organizations, including the Anti-Saloon League, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and other forces who believed that Prohibition was necessary in America.
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Examine three types of harvest tools found in The Wine History Project of San Luis Obispo County collection.
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Our Wine History Project library will provide lifelong learning possibilities, connecting you with a variety of resources and tools that have oodles of viticulture information relating to the wine history in the San Luis Obispo County community.
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From the late 1800s until the 1950s, grapes were sent to local markets mostly by wooden baskets, boxes or crates. A method was needed to legibly label crates and barrels. Here we look at tool to do just that.
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A division in the wine industry became evident; some “chemists” rejected the grafting solution that was determined to solve the destruction. They persisted with the use of pesticides and chemicals for the vineyards. I’m going to discuss in this article tools that were utilized to dust or spray those pesticides and chemicals on vineyards.
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