HOPSCOTCH 



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HOQUIAM 



most a thousand years this has been the chief 

 value of hops in the commercial world. 



Production in the United States. Hops are 

 grown principally in Europe and the United 



PRINCIPAL HOP-GROWING SECTIONS 



States. In the latter country the crop comes 

 most largely from Oregon, New York, Cali- 

 fornia and Washington, in the order named. 

 These four states grow 97 per cent of the entire 

 yield of the United States, amounting to 45,- 

 000,000 pounds, valued at over $7,800,000 to the 

 growers. Canada exports abov.t $25,000 worth 

 of hops to England every year, and supplies 

 nearly all of its home demands. 



Yield Per Acre, and Prices. The average 

 yield of hops is usually between 700 and 800 

 pounds per acre in the United States and about 

 500 pounds in Europe. On the Pacific Coast 

 the average is from 1,000 to 1,500 pounds per 

 acre, but yields of one ton per acre are often 

 secured. Oregon produces more than any other 

 state of the Union. 



The price fluctuates more than that of any 

 other crop. It has varied from 6 cents to $1.13 

 per pound, and often varies through half this 

 range in any period of ten years. The average 

 cost of production is estimated at from seven to 

 ten cents per pound. E.G.M. 



Consult publications on hop cultivation issued 

 by the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 which may be had on application ; Myrick's The 

 Hop, Its Culture and Cure. 



HOPSCOTCH, a children's game which re- 

 quires considerable agility and serves to de- 

 velop poise and muscular control. It is played 

 on a court chalked on the pavement or 

 scratched scotched on the ground. The court, 



which is about twenty-five feet long and five 

 or six feet wide, is divided into a number of 

 compartments, as shown in the illustration. As 

 most commonly played, the player stands at 

 taw, a short distance behind the court, and 

 tosses a flat pebble or bit of broken pottery 

 into the first division. Hopping into that di- 

 vision, he picks up the pebble and hops out 

 again. He then tosses the pebble into the left 

 half of the second compartment, hops through 

 the two compartments (1 and 2 in illustration), 

 picks up the pebble and hops out again. 



The pebble is next thrown into the right half 

 of the second compartment (3 in illustration), 



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HOPSCOTCH COURT 



and the player hops through 1, 2 and 3 and out 

 again. When he throws the pebble into 4, he 

 hops into 1, then straddles the line separating 

 2 and 3, and then hops into 4 and back again. 

 When he hops to 7 he straddles at 5 and 6, and 

 so on. The player who first gets the pebble 

 into 11 and hops through all compartments 

 without making a mistake wins the game. It is 

 counted an error to step on a line, to lose one's 

 balance, or to throw the pebble on a line or 

 outside the compartment aimed for. 



In another form of the game the pebble is 

 kicked outside the court instead of being 

 picked up. w.c. 



HOQUIAM, ho'kwiam, WASH., a city in 

 Chehalis County, on Gray's Harbor, ninety 

 miles by rail southwest of Tacoma. It has an 

 excellent harbor and is on the Chicago, Mil- 

 waukee & Saint Paul, the Northern Pacific and 

 the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Naviga- 

 tion Company systems. Hoquiam is near ex- 

 tensive tracts of pine, and it ships lumber and 

 lumber products, salmon, canned sea clams and 

 furs. There are large lumber and shingle mills 

 and shipyards here, and the city has a Carnegie 

 Library and a high school building. The com- 

 mission form of government was adopted in 

 1911. In 1910 the population was 8,171; in 

 1916 a Federal estimate gave it 11,666. The 

 area is about six square miles. 



