84 SOPS. 



but it must not be forgotten that under these circumstances 

 the price of red hops also rises, and for these the increase 

 is much more considerable than for the inferior sorts. The 

 endeavour of the brewer to employ the best raw materials 

 in the production of his beer is undoubtedly a weighty cir- 

 cumstance which should induce the grower to prefer the finer 

 varieties, and to only cultivate the coarser though more pro- 

 ductive sorts so far as economic conditions render this course 

 imperative. 



Thus, where hop cultivation is carried on extensively 

 on any one property, it may be occasionally advisable to 

 deviate from the general rule of growing none but early red 

 hops, for the following reasons. Hop cultivation entails Tnucb 

 trouble and labour, and in particular at picking time there 

 must be no lack of hands. Now, early hops are readj' to 

 gather in August, i.e., at a time when the farmer has other 

 crops to harvest ; and when early hops alone are grown and 

 there is a scarcity of labour, it may easily happen that they 

 cannot all be picked at the proper time. On this account it 

 is advisable to grow late sorts as well as early ones where 

 there is a shortness of hands, though no definite rule can 

 be laid down for the relative area of the two, this depending 

 on local circumstances entirely. In any case the earlier 

 sorts should receive the chief consideration, and should be 

 grown as extensively as those circumstances permit, the 

 later kinds being regarded as subsidiary. 



A good plan would be to plant a third of the total area 

 with the earliest Saaz (red) variety, a third with red Auscha. 

 or Schwetzingen hops, and the balance with Dauba or Eot- 

 tenburg tgreen) hops. With such an arrangement one could 

 manage with about one-third the number of hands required 

 when only one sort is grown, because the labour of harvest- 

 ing is thereby naturally distributed over a longer period, and 

 uniformly, from the middle of August to' the end of September. 



