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signed their hops on advances of 2 to 2y^c per 11>. and never 

 got another cent." 



OiuxioM A Polk Co. Report — For the first plowing 

 in spring, one man and two horses will plow four acres 

 a day, at $2 per day, which is 50c per acre. One man 

 and one horse will cultivate down *ive acres a day at $1.50 

 per day, or 30c per acre. Cross plowing will cost the same 

 a'^ first plowing, and cross leveling the same as first culti- 

 Drying hops, including wood and sulphur, Ic; pressing in- 

 over five acres a day at a cost of 4Uc per acre; three addi- 

 tional cultivatings will cost the same each. Smoothing, or 

 clod smashing, both ways, one man and one horse, five acres, 

 or ten acres one way, will cost 30c por acre. It takes 12 lbs. 

 of 10-ply cotton twine for an acre, at 12c per lb. Putting oi; 

 twine, one man, five acres one way, costs 40c per acre twined 

 both ways. Land is worth $75 an acre, interest 8 per cent., 

 taxes $1.50 per acre, repairs and depreciation on tooi'^- !?1.25. 

 Three sprayings will require 18 lbs. quassia chips $1.08, 3G 

 lbs. whale-oil soap $1.80, labor $2, repairs 37c, total $5.25. 

 This gives us for one acre: 



rnltivatinqr as rvbove S3. no 



HaiiliuK 40c, and .setting stakes i?2 '.i.40 



New stakes SI. •'>0, twine and twining .$1.84 '.i-M 



Ilofing and snrouting liills 3.00 



Training vines four times C.OO 



I 'i lining surplns vines 2.00 



Clt-aning yard in fall 1-25 



Interest and taxes "J^-^ 



Spraying three limes - — 5.25 



Total (about 2^/30 per lb. for 1,500 lbs. of cured hops) §34.74 



Picking at 40c per box will cost about 3c per lb., and 

 yard help (including delivering hops at kiln) VgC more, 

 vating. With dis'k harrow, one man and two horses will go 

 eluding hop cloth, five yards to the bale, at 8c, %c; insur- 

 ance, interest and repairs on plant, warehouse storage, etc.. 

 Ic, making a total of harvesting expenses of o^Ac a pound. 

 The crop will therefore cost the grower about 8c per lb. 

 These figures are not the itemized expenses of any one 

 grower in any particular year, but will cover thf average 

 cost for the last throp yoars n89fi-7 "^^ of thosp who own 

 and work thoir own hop yards. *T do not think mat anv ono 

 man's itemized expenses for any onp year is a safe basis 

 from which to draw conclusions, as my hops have not cost 

 me exactly the samp a^iy two years." 



OnFOOx. Yamhill Co.. .T. W. F.— My hop gardpn contains 

 20..17 acrp'V valued at 5125 n^^r acrp. Thp hills arp eight 

 fppt apart each way, a total of 12 915 hills. Th^ poles 

 arp fir and cost on thp vard two cents apiece, or $258.30. The 

 kiln is an octagonalbniidinfr. 28 ft. each way in thp clpar.with 

 storproom combined 20x'>4 ft: with furnace, piping and prps<^. 

 It cost $910: 150 sacks $30, five measuring boxes of cedar, hold- 



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