200 HOTS. 



the produce of these, so to speak, virgin soils has been 

 coihpared, without more ado, with that' of poled gardens 

 thirty years old or over, and more or less exhausted. 



Furthermore, the high productivity of new plantations 

 induces good growers to manure freely so as to obtain 

 a good return in the next year, whereas the older gardens 

 are often treated in a stepmotherly fashion. These two 

 circumstances combined have led to the idea that the hops 

 are rendered more fruitful by being trained on wires. 



Notwithstanding an unusual luxuriance of foliage, 

 Zelinka ^ derived great benefit from the Haupt frame 

 system (modified' to 20 ft.), and harvested about 1,200 lb. 

 of dry, handsome and uniformly shaped cones per acre, the 

 quantity and quality being perfectly satisfactory. 



A further proof that a well-chosen frame system will 

 produce hops not inferior to those grown on poles is af- 

 forded by the results displayed at the Bavarian Hop and 

 Barley Show held at Niirnberg in 1897, and reported by 

 Dr. C. Kraus in the Zeitschrift filr das gesammte Brauwesen. 

 Nearly all the prize hops on this occasion were from wired 

 gardens, all the first prize winners exclusively so. This 

 shows that no depreciation of the crop will follow the 

 adoption of a carefully, selected frame system, unsatisfactory 

 results being mostly due to the employment of an ill-judged 

 height of frame. The question then naturally arises as to 

 the proper height to be given to the frames. In this con- 

 nection Zelinka, an adherent of the medium frame, expresses 

 the opinion that "in case the growth is too luxuriant and the 

 garden is not in a very damp or low situation, the necessity 

 for erecting excessively high frames can be overcome by 

 allovnng the first 25, to 30 inches of the bine to hang down 



^E. Zelinka, "Die CuUur des Hopfens auf Drahtgerilsten" (Hop-growing 

 on wire frames), Wiener landdb. Zeitung, 1896. 



