THE HOP DICTIONARY 



Glossary of Technical Terms Pertaining to Hops 



and the Hop Trade, Including Hints on 



Curing and Other Practical Points 



K. K. WALTKR 



GROWERS who have not good equipment (facilities in one 

 locality may not suffice in another) and cannot get an experi- 

 enced and good dryer, should never contract their hops because 



CURING is difficult: the variety, nature, development of the 

 hop, and climatic and weather conditions playing an important 

 part. Each season they may differ, and often each day, and 

 even picking (morning and afternoon) must be differently ma- 

 nipulated. Proper knowledge of drying takes years to acquire 

 and cannot be learned in several seasons. 



HARVESTING, HANDLING, CONDITION Hops should be 

 well cultivated and cared for, be of good, bright, even color, well 

 matured but not over-ripe, cleanly picked and properly cured; 

 put up in sound condition and merchantable shape, in new mate- 

 rial and in correct and uniform bales. 



CONTRACTS call for choice goods, unless distinctly other- 

 wise specified; that is, an excellent article and only the best 

 grade. Usage has established that all contracts purchases and 

 sales are made "severally as to bales," and there is no averag- 

 ing to grade or sample, each bale stands on its own merits. 

 There is no averaging to a grade or sample, because buyers 

 often have absolutely no outlet for anything below the standard 

 bought on, and further, that below certain grades there is often 

 positively no market, and it is therefore impossible at times to 

 estimate the value of inferior goods. 



INSPECTION Buyer has the right of accepting each and 

 every bale equal to purchase, and the privilege of rejecting all 

 that class below. Changes in quality, due to difference in bulk, 

 wrapping, storage and general outward surroundings and con- 

 ditions, may take place in a few hours, and therefore samples 

 may not represent the distinct bales from which they were 

 taken. Example: A sample taken from hops, newly baled In 

 slack condition, wrapped in paper and mailed, might dry out, 

 and reach intending purchaser entirely changed, whereas a re- 

 drawn (a fresh sample) or a tryer sample, from the same bale, 

 would show such slackness and would therefore be reason to 

 reject. In other words, the identical bale, the original sample 

 from which reached the buyer wHh every indication of sound- 

 ness, would, due to large bulk, depending upon storage condi- 

 tions largely, either heat or sour. 



For the reason cited in foregoing example and other changes 

 that might occur, it is an accepted fact that samples, as a rule, 

 are unreliable as an indication of the condition (and therefore 



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