HOPS. 



economy, the farmer being able to breathe more freely from 

 that time forward. 



At a later date, owing to the rapid fall in the price of 

 hops in the year 1826, the troubles of the Bohemian hop- 

 grower again increased. However, in consequence of the 

 freeing of the land in 1849-53, a change in the entire 

 domain of agriculture made itself apparent ; and, as the 

 advances in agricultural science directed the industry into 

 new paths, and knowledge became more and more the 

 common property of mankind, so a better acquaintance 

 with the nature of the hop plant, its relation to soil and 

 climate, its nutrition, treatment and cultivation became the 

 object of earnest investigation, side by side with attempts 

 at improvement in the methods of growth and application ; 

 and finally, as the endeavours to carry out scientific results 

 into practice were crowned with success, the cultivation of 

 the hop began to flourish anew, and the area to extend 

 year by year. 



At the present time, as formerly, Bohemia is the true 

 centre of the Austrian hop industry. Hops are also grown 

 in Styria, Galicia, Upper Austria, Moravia and Carynthia, 

 which practically exhausts the list. 



The Styrian hops are accounted good, and those of 

 Galicia are highly esteemed in many quarters ; but those 

 produced in Upper Austria, Moravia and Carynthia are of 

 inferior quality. 



As regards the Kingdom of Hungary, the area under 

 hops in the districts of Hungary and Siebenbiirgen, where 

 the industry was not founded until 1865-75, is 363 

 hectares (897 acres). The Hungarian hop district Hes 

 along the Styrian frontier. In point of quality Sieben- 

 biirgen hops are very fair, and the county of Udvarhely 

 is noted for its good early hops. The first planter in 

 Hungary was Count Joseph von Lihen, but the cultivation 



