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The irregularity of the foreign demand is as great, and occasioned by tlie 

 fact that the hop in England and the continent is even more uncertain than it 

 is here. 



The following table shows the number of acres, in hops, in the years named, 

 and the pounds produced. Tliose years only are given which exhibit the 

 gi-eatest extremes, but even where the annual production is more regular, it is 

 nevertheless very irregular. 



From 1841 to 1850 the yield was more regular, being about 896 pounds per 

 acre. 



. A crop so extreme in its annual product necessarily caused an irregular de- 

 mand on the part of Great Britain for foreign hops. Its imports are seen in the 



ollowing table. 



Import of Jiops hy Great Britain. 



* For ten mouths only. 



The exports of the United States show a like irregularity. They are as 

 follows : 



Exports of hops hy the United States. 



* Estimated at 200 pounds per bale, the returns being in bales. 



Here is a great fluctuation, and in 1S61 a most extraordinary export. The 

 entire crop of the United States, as returned by the census, was as follows : 

 1840, 1,238,502 pounds; 1850, 3,497,029 pounds, and in 1860, 11,010,012 

 •pounds. There must have been a mopt wonderful increase in 1860 and in 1861 

 of our hop crop, or else we exported in 1861 nearly the entire amount produced.* 



f'The estimated crop for 1862 is 16,000,000 pounds, and for 1863 and 1864, 13,000,000 

 pounds each year. 



