A great many California women are investing in raisin vineyards. The favorite plan is an incorporation to secure the land. Stock is issued, and assessments levied upon it. The expense of land, water, planting, and culture can be very closely calculated beforehand, and quarterly assessments are made until the vineyard is in bearing. So far, every enterprise of this kind has been a success. Tracts of one or two hundred acres costing from fifty to sixty dollars an acre, are preferred by these associations. Most of the women who take stock are teachers or stenographers, with two or three thousand dollars savings. They can make more, after the fifth year, than by any other equally safe investment. Raisin-grape vineyards are the favorite form of investment for such associations. They do not as yet attempt wine-making, or general fruit-growing. A prune or fig or almond orchard might be as easy to manage as a raisin vineyard, but the system by which raisins can always be sold in the sweating boxes to packing companies, greatly lessens the care and expense. - Charles H. Shinn.