They do not trim out poor grapes from the bunches, because, as they assert, there are none; but I suspect this will have to be done for the very finest raisins, such as would tempt a reluctant buyer.

The bunches require from eighteen to twenty-four days of exposure in the sun to be cured.
During that time they are gently turned from time to time, and such as are earliest cured are at once removed to a raisin-house.
This is fitted with shelves, on which the raisins are laid about a foot thick, and here they are allowed to sweat a little.

If they sweat too much the sugar candies on the outside, and this deteriorates the quality of the raisin.

It is an object to keep the bloom on the berries.

They are kept in the raisin-house, I was told, five or six weeks, when they are dry enough to box.