THIRSTY U.S.A.
CONSUMPTION 6t WINE Ml) .';■:■'■■ '■" . BEER.; ;, -■• "••■ j ' More wine was niadt, and pr#gtunal>3y more consumed* in "dry" United States in 1921 than in. any one previous year of the -'wet" United. States historyl. More wine will-be ma,d&'and consumed in 1922 than in 1921 (says ah attiel* toy Samuel Hopkins Aclaths in "Leslie's Weekly," New York, dated 3rd June, 1922), The actual consumption of wine itt UvS.A. last year it. estimated to.have reached a total of 100,000,000 callons, an increase of 33 per eent./oVer tn« previous, highest figure. The girape-eibwing biisiness is therefore "booming,' ana 86,000 acres of new vineyards.were added to the Califoroian plantings in 1921., .. The amount of beer manufactured in U.S.A. can be gauged, from figures sup : , jilied by hop-g?6wera. The artidle, referred to redkons that 10,000,000 barrels of heavy beer were "home-niade" iri the States last .year., "We are becoming; perhaps have already becomq,- a nation of horn*, brewers and home yinfcerßj," says th« authorlof the article. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 4
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161THIRSTY U.S.A. Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 4
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