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gradually spreading, though the drying is still done without 

 artificial heat in the sun instead of kilns. Nuremberg is 

 the chief market for hops for all Germany, and from 60 to 

 70 million marks ( J Ib.) of hops are sold there every year. 



The following was an estimate of the foreign production of 

 hops made four^or five years ago, in cwts. : 



BAVARIA. Centnerg 



Spalt, town district 2,100 



Spalt, rural district 16,000 



Kindengen and Heidak 7,000 



Holledau 25,000 



Hersbnick and neighbourhood 12,000 



Altdorf 9,000 



Lauf 6,000 



Sultzbach 8,000 



Aisch and Zeimgrund 20,000 



Bamberg and Forchheim 12,000 



Franken and Wasserburg 6,500 



Total 133,600 



To which had to be added 



Centners. 



Saatz, town 1,500 



Saatz, district 20,000 



Auscha 25,000 



Dauba grunLmd 30 , 000 



Other districts 8,500 



Total for Bohemia 85,000 



Upper Austria 9,000 



Prussian Poland 18,000 



Altmark and Brunswick 20,000 



Baden 13,000 



Wurtemberg 25,000 



Total Germany 303,600 



France 40,000 



Belgium 80,000 



Total Continent 423,600 



The United States of America 50 , 000 



Total crop of foreign hops . . . . 473 , 600 



