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CULTIVATION AND PRODUCTION 



Exports of hops from Austria : 



In EOUMANIA the hop is not yet submitted to any system 

 of regular culture, but the wild hops which grow in the 

 woods are collected and used as a legume, and also in the 

 manufacture of beer. 



SWEDEN. The hop grows spontaneously, and has done for 

 centuries in a wild state, in many parts of Sweden, as far as 

 Jemtland, and it is cultivated in Northbothnia (66), at 

 from 36 to 50 miles from the coast. The most common sorts 

 are an early kind, a late variety, and the best and most 

 sought after a variety with red bine and large reddish-brown 

 cones. Many foreign sorts have, however, been introduced 

 and tried of late years. 



HOLLAND. The following figures give the statistics of hop 

 production in the Netherlands, as far as I have been able to 

 ascertain it : 



