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Sundries Three cultivating* $11.38, tliree sulphurings $2.16, 

 string for trellis $8.22, new poles and wire $2.40, new imple- 

 ments and repairs to old ones $3.60, blacksmith's bill $1.68, 

 rent and rates $14.58, proportion of supervision $4.86, hire 

 of oast $2.40 51.28 



Total up to harvest time (about 6% cts per Ib.) $112.53 



Harvesting and marketing costs 30s per cwt., or within a frac- 

 tion of 6y 2 c per Ib, including picking and curing and getting 

 to market (coal, brimstone, pockets, binmen, tallymen, cart- 

 age to oasts and station, freight, insurance, commission and 

 sampling), a total of 106.72 



Aggregate cost of a yield of 15 cwt. per acre (or 1,680 IDs. at an 



average cost of a trifle over 13 cents per Ib.) $219.25 



COST OF HOPS IN NEW YORK STATE, U. S. A. 

 NET PROFITS OF $150 PER ACRE The late William 

 Brooks of Cooperstown, New York, furnished a remarkable 

 statement to the New England r lunestead i.i 1885, in which 

 he placed the cost of production at lOc per Ib. He always 

 gave his yard the best possible care and soki his hops at 

 the market price when baled. He bought his farm of 100 

 acres in 1863 for $3000. It had five acres in hops, to which 

 he added two more acres in 1866. From these seven acres, 

 he received $38,180 for the 21 hop crops, 1863-'84, or an aver- 

 age of $23(57 per year, equal to $339 per acre per year. But this 

 was during a period when hops averaged higher than of late 

 years. But the fact that the crop yielded an average of 1300 

 Ibs. per. acre all these years, or nearly double the product 

 on neighboring yards, where cost per pound was as much or 

 more, shows what can be done. His net profits must have 

 averaged for the 21 years over $150 per acre. Mr. Brooks 

 furnished details of his last 10 crops as follows: 



NEW YORK STATE COST OF GROWING HOPS 



OTSEGO COUNTY. N. Y. W. H. G.'s 10-acre hop field 

 cost $75 an acre, hills 8x8 ft, or 675 per acre; cedar poles at 

 12c, delivered, cost $810 for the yard. The kiln and store- 

 room is 50x24, and cost, including furnace, press, and other 

 fixtures, $1600. The sacks for green hops, boxes for picking, 

 etc., cost $40. The cultivators, hillers, grub hooks, bars for 

 pole-setting, etc., cost $50. The pickers boarded themselves 

 and at 40c per box were paid $206 for the 515 boxes; five box- 

 tenders at $1 each for 15 days, $75; expense of collecting and 



