68 QUALITY AND KEEPING OF HOPS. STATISTICS OF 



statistics of each parish in every hop-growing district, the 

 prohable result being as follows, viz. : 



Total 



68,500 i 



370,500 



Or equal to an old duty of 185,5007. 



" Now, as to the foreign crops, I hold a circular under date 

 14th September, issued by a leading brewers' house, in which 

 it states : ' Of the continental crops very little need be said ; 

 they are short everywhere, and in some parts in Bohemia, 

 for instance there is almost an entire failure. A good 

 general continental crop would probably yield, say about 

 1,000,000 to 1,200,000 cwt. ; the aggregate estimate of 

 this year's produce is 260,000 to 300,000 cwt. ; the esti- 

 mated annual consumption is set down at about from 

 550,000 to 600,000 cwt. ; the stock on hand, including 

 that with brewers, is assumed to be between 150,000 and 

 180,040 cwt. It is therefore not improbable that foreign 

 merchants will be buyers on our market, rather than sellers ; 

 and we may here note that already a considerable demand is 

 reported at New York for Bavaria, where prices of their 

 growth are far above ours.' 



"Having dealt with the home and foreign crops, let us 



