76 QUALITY AND KEEPING OF HOPS. STATISTICS OF 



" The latest accounts from America state that previous esti- 

 mates of 140,000 bales- as the amount of the year's yield in 

 that country will not be realized, and that the quality is not 

 so good as last year's. Planters find that the hops have not 

 come down according to their expectation in many of the 

 States. Prices at present are about Is. 3d. to Is. 4<#. per Ib. 

 There will be a considerable surplus for exportation to Eng- 

 land and Germany, but nothing like the quantity, 50,000 

 bales, that were exported last year to England from New 

 York." 



QUANTITY OF HOPS CHAKGED AND AMOUNT OP DUTY PAID IN ENGLAND 

 for each Year from the Imposition of the Duty to its Repeal. 



TJie Number of Acres under Cultivation will be found on page 62. 



