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As soon as the vines are high enough to reach the poles, they 

 are to be brought in contact and tied, and the plow or cultivator 

 must be employed to keep down weeds and loosen the soil. 



The process of trimming will last for some time, that no sur- 

 plus shoots may be allowed to take up the strength of the soil. 

 Two vines are sufficient for one pole. 



Passing over the process of picking, drying, and baleing, which 

 would require a rather extended notice, we only add that the 

 yield per acre extends from 500 to 1,500 lbs. According to the 

 character of the soil, culture, and season. 



Probably a fair average yield would be about 800 lbs. per acre. 

 If, however, the hop is properly cultivated, and if it escape those 

 casualties to which it is more or less subject, as grubs, rust, the 

 fly, or violent hail, the yield is generally larger than 800 lbs. 

 This, at the prices of the last and present year, renders it a very 

 profitable business. Hops this year have sold for 32c. to 35c. 

 Indeed it w^ould be profitable at one half the prices of the last 

 season. 



The expense of cultivation, after the drying kiln is prepared, 

 will not greatly exceed the expense of corn cultivation, save that 

 it requires rather more manure. 



Stable or barn-yard manure is deemed the best, and of this 

 large quantities may be made by farmers, with little expense. 



F. 



January^ 1855. 



Prof. Mapes — The increased use of hops, and consequent in- 

 crease of price, has rendered their culture and mode of preserva- 

 tion of the highest importance. It may not be known to some of 

 our readers, that the leaves of the hop have no valuable property. 



The lupulin alone contains all the soluble portion of the hop. 

 This term lupulin is given io the pollen ox fari7ia fecundi^ \\\\ich. 

 may be separated by machinery, and we cannot understand why 

 this has not been done. 



