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nitrate of soda per acre), and S (manured with dung, super- 

 phosphate, and 6 cwt. nitrate of soda per acre). F, the 

 plot which received chemical fertilisers only, including 10 

 cwt. of nitrate per acre, was placed by Mr. Chapman at the 

 head of his list for quality ; S, the dressing of which included 

 6 cwt. of nitrate per acre, came second ; while X, manured 

 with dung only, without any nitrate, yielding the same weight 

 of hops, came only sixth in value. On the factor's valuation 

 we get very similar results, S and F coming second and 

 third on the list for quality, while X (dung only) came 

 seventh. 



In a year of such general abundance of growth, and 

 consequently of such low average prices as have prevailed 

 for all hops, the money differences represented by differences 

 in the grade of quality are, of course, small as compared 

 with what they would be in a year of high prices. Never- 

 theless, small differences, from the growers' point of view, are 

 in such a year of even greater consequence than in scarcer 

 and dearer years. A difference of los. or 155. a hundred- 

 weight in value when hops are only realising 505. means a 

 great percentage difference in the money to be turned over. 

 Indeed, in a year of large yields, when purchasers are 

 standing off and growers are eager to realise, a difference in 

 quality which in another year would be regarded as slight 

 may make all the difference between a fairly ready market 

 and no market at all. 



The following table shows the acreage value of the crop 

 for each of the plots, based upon the actual weight obtained 

 per acre and upon the values relatively assigned to the 

 growths by Mr. Chapman, judging from the brewers' point 

 of view, and also by the hop-factors as representing the 



