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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 $1.50 3.00 



Poles $5, and poling 3% days $5.75 1075 



Sharpening poles (40c per 100, good for 3 yrs, $6), one year 2.00 



Plowing both ways, iy 2 days at $2 3.00 



Cultivating four times at 75c 3.00 



Hoeing twice, four days, at $1.50 6.00 



Tying up vines 1V 2 days at $1.25 1.87 



Picking 80 boxes hops at 25c 20.00 



Board 28 pickers 168 meals at lOc 16.80 



Four box tenders two days at $1 8.00 



Board box tenders, 24 meals at lOc 2.40 



Put hops on kiln, two kilns at $1 2.00 



Man to dry, two kilns at $1.50 3.00 



Wood 2V 2 cords, two 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 9.43 



Aggregate (10.8c per Ib. for 960 Ibs.) "$ToT65 



COST OF HOPS ON THE PACIFIC COAST 



CALIFORNIA Daniel 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 are 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 Ibs., which would have 

 to net lie per Ib. to pay all t^ese expenses and leave the 

 yard in sood shape. 



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

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

 and cultivating, $108: harvesting, curing, baling, etc., $472: 

 interest, insurance, taxes, and depreciation on the whole 

 outfit, $107. This made the second c:*op cost $698, or over 

 $77 per acre, equal to 6c per Ib. on 1300 Ibs. per acre. "To 

 further show the uncertainties of this business, especiallv 

 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- 



