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cost $5 per year. The annual expenses in the second and 

 subsequent years will average as follows: 



Annual charge on first cost §4.00 



Grubbing, two days' work at S1.50. 3.00 



Poles 85, and poling S^i days §5.75 10.75 



Sharpening pules (40c per 100, good for 3 yrs, SO), one year 2.00 



Plowing botli ways, IV2 days at $2 3.00 



Cultivating four iimes at 75e 3.00 



Hoeing twice, four days, at §1.50 6.00 



Tying up vines IVj days at §1.25 1-87 



Picking 80 boxes hops at 25c 20.00 



Board 28 pickers 168 meals at 10c 16.80 



Four box tenders two davs at §1 8.00 



Board box tenders, 24 meals at 10c 2.40 



Put hops on kiln, Two kilns at §1 2.00 



Man to dry, tw<j kilns at ,$1.50 3.00 



Wood 2V2 cords, 1 wm) kilns at §1.50 3.75 



Brimstone, two kilns -90 



Baling five bales at 30c, delivering 50c 2.00 



Sacking §1.25, stacking poles §1.50 2.75 



Total operating expenses §95.22 



Fixed charges : Depreciation §5.93, rent §3, taxes, 50c 9A3 



Aggregate (10.8c per lb. for 960 lbs.) §104.65 



COST OF HOPS ON THE PACIFIC COAST 



California— Dnniel Flint says a hop kiln for 50 acres 

 with all things complete will cost $3500 to $4000. High wire 

 trellis costs $80 to $90 per acre, 2000 roots $20. and Japanese 

 will contract to do for $10.25 per acre all the hand labor 

 on the crop until it is ready to harvest. Picking, curing and 

 baling costs him $2200 on 64 acres, and $1500 on 40 acres, an 

 average of about $35 per acre. 



Oregon, Washington Co. — E. C. Malloy submits a 

 statement of a nine-acre hop yard started in 1893 on land 

 worth $25 an acre, interest at 10 per cent, taxes 17 mills on 

 the dollar. No man ire is used, nor hoeing after the first 

 season; kiln is 25x25 ft, 20 ft studding, that cost $200, two fur- 

 naces and pipes $54. warehouse $125, total on building $379. 

 The harvesting equipment, picking and curing the first crop 

 cost $51. Plowing, setting out, cultivating and poles for the 

 first crop, produced the same year, $281, interest and taxes 

 $29. This makes an even $1200 for cost of first crop, or $133 

 an acre for a yield averaging 1300 lbs., which would have 

 to net lie por lb. to p-^-- all r^ese expenses and leave the 

 yard in good shape. 



For the next crop it cost $1.25 ner acre for cleaning up 

 yard. $11.25: $12 npr acre for setting poles, tying up hops 

 and cultivating. $108: harvestine. curing, baling, etc.. $472; 

 intprest. insurance, taxes, and depreciation on the whole 

 outfit. $107. This made thp second c-od cost $698. or over 

 ?77 ner acre, eoual to 6c per lb. on 1300 lbs. per acre. "To 

 further show the uncertainties of this business, especially 

 in this region, I want to say that instead of getting 11 and 6c 

 for those crops, I got 5% and 4c, while many others con- 



