180 HOPS. 



There would certainly be little difficulty in adding still 

 further to the list of experiments already cited ; but none 

 of them are of more than local value, and consequently 

 are inapplicable directly to other conditions. 



On summing up what has been said with regard to the 

 use of artificial manures for hops it will be evident, in the 

 first place, that the question is still far from a satisfactory 

 solution. Dr. Behrens appropriately says that Eemy,^ who 

 has devoted himself to the thankworthy but thankless task 

 of collecting the results of experiments in hop manuring, 

 only succeeded in confirming that the positive results 

 obtained bear no proportion at all to the expenditure of 

 mental and material adjuncts, especially labour, involved 

 in carrying out the experiments in question. 



Notwithstanding this poverty of results from such a 

 quantity of active endeavour, we should not be discouraged 

 from further attempts, more especially since there are, and 

 always will be, a number of growers who, for some reason 

 or other, are not in possession of sufficient stall maniu-e to 

 fully supply the requirements of their hop gardens without 

 robbing the remainder of their arable land ; and it is for 

 these growers in particular that the question of artificials 

 for hops is one of special interest and high importance. 

 And even if the results of previous manuring experiments 

 do not permit the deduction of any universal rules as to 

 the most advantageous method of dressing hop land, never- 

 theless they admit of the following conclusions being 

 drawn : — 



1. By the use of artificial manures the otherwise 

 customary dressing of stall manure can be dispensed with 

 for hops during one or more years without any fear of 



^ Remy, " Ueber die Brgebnisse der bisher in Deutsohland ausgefiihrten 

 Hopfendiingungsversuohe " (Results of German experiments in hop manuring) 

 Wochensch/rift filr Braiierei, 1897. 



