LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



A section of hop pickers starting their work. Frontispiece 



Fig. Page. 



1. Three-hundred acre hop field nearly ready to pick . . 10 



2. Commencement of pole stack 12 



3. New York hop yard 14 



4. Hop harvest in New York state 17 



5. Southern Oregon hop yard, ready U pick ... 20 



6. Hop yard two miles long at Horstvllle, Cal. ... 24 



7. Branch of male hop vine 26 



8. Female vine, showing flowers ...... 27 



9. Branch of female hops 28 



10. Grains of lupulin 29 



11. Female cluster newly set 30 



12. Single female flower 30 



13. Cross-sectional longitudinal view of female hop . . 31 



14. Various shapes of hops 33 



15. Kentish hops 34 



16. Kentish cluster hops 37 



17. Fuggles, Kent 40 



18. Bates's brewers, Kent 43 



19. Rear view of 12 kilns, Pleasanton, Cal .... 46 



20. Climbing tendril of hop vine 48 



21. Largest hop kiln in the world under one cover . . 53 



22. Hop harvest in Madison Co., N. Y 55 



23. Partly picked hop yard, Cal 57 



24. Hop fields near Cooperstown, N. Y 60 



25. Tank for dipping hop poles to prevent rot ... 62 



26. Hop pickers in Washington 66 



27. Picking hops in Kent, Eng 68 



28. Picking hops 70 



29. Irrigating hops 75 



30. Yard on the short pole system 78 



31. Training hoos in Kent ..." 81 



32. Horizontal hop yard, N. Y 82 



33. Otsego grub hoe 84 



34. Twine pole 85 



35. Kentish wire trellis 86 



36. Kentish hop yards 87 



37. Hop root stock 88 



38. Hop vine stock for transplanting 90 



39. Hop stock 91 



40. Tools for making holes for setting poles .... 92 



41. Forms of hop knives 94 



42. Plants untrimmed and trimmed 95 



43. Yard pegged out for planting 96 



44. American grub hooks 98 



45. Foreign hop tools 100 



46. Tying knot 101 



47. Hop garden in Kent 102 



48. Picking hops grown on strings and trellis, Cal. . . 104 



49. Orchard cultivator 106 



50. Pleasanton trellis, side and end views .... 107 



51. Starting out to "string" a wire trellis .... 108 



52. Trellis system used at Pleasanton 110 



53. One-horse shovel plow Ill 



54. Indian hop pickers at dinner, Cal 112 



55. Spraying outfit, British Columbia hop yard ... 114 



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