252 HOPS. 



In view of the cheapness of wood pulp, hop bine cannot 

 be expected to attain any importance as a paper-making 

 material, the more so because the paper it furnishes cannot 

 be bleached and is therefore only suitable for packing.^ 



Spent hops from the brewery are either thrown on the 

 manure heap or worked up into compost. According to 

 Weiske ^ they contain — 



Per cent. 



but the same experimentalist states that their content of 

 digestible constituents is relatively low, only 



Per cent. 



4-46 of protein, 



3-24 of fat (extractible by ether), and 

 26-15 of non-nitrogenous extractives 



being digestible out of 100 parts of the dry substance. 

 Furthermore, the bitter flavour of spent hops renders them 

 unacceptable to cattle. 



A very fine and appetising salad is afforded by the young 

 shoots cut off in spring. The shoots look like small asparagus, 

 which they also resemble in flavour and mode of preparation. 

 As they are produced in large quantities at a time when fresh 

 vegetables are scarce, it would seem advisable to send them 

 to market on a large scale. Up to the present time their use 

 for this purpose has been confined to the hop districts and 

 immediate neighbourhoods, and too little attention has been 

 bestowed on finding a wider circle of consumption. 



Fruwirth states that in France and Belgium hop cuttings 

 taken in the winter are embedded in warm manure heaps 



' Wiener landw. Zeitung, 1897. 



^ Thausing, Theorie und Praxis der Bierfabrication, Leipzig, 1893. 



