84 CULTIVATION AND PRODUCTION 



The degrees of quality in the foregoing table are indi- 

 cated by the following figures : 1 is first-rate ; 2, very good ; 

 3, good ; 4, middling ; 5, inferior. The decimals show the 

 approximation to the class below. 



Reducing these to English weights and measures we find 

 the statistics to be as follows : 



The total produce of hops in Wurtemberg was in 1873 

 73,733 cwt., and as about 25,000 cwt. are required for home 

 consumption, the quantity available for exportation was 

 48,000 cwt. 



Wurtemberg hops have a high reputation in neighbouring 

 countries, as is proved by the success of the Wurtemberg hop 

 growers at Huguenau, where out of seventeen exhibitors 

 thirteen received prizes. 



The principal hop-growing districts are those of Rotten- 

 burg, in the Black Forest, and the Neckarkreis. The harvest 

 of 1875, 5000 hectares laid down, was below the average of 

 twenty years ; tlie quality, however, was good, and though 

 reports of promising crops in England and America caused 

 sales to be made at the beginning of the season at the low 

 price of 61. per cwt.., on the failure of the foreign crops prices 

 rose to 14?. 10s., and remained at 12Z. 10s., which would give 

 a value for the whole crop of a little over 600,000?. sterling. 



