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as 1,000 to 4,000 cwt., whilst the consumption amounts to 

 12,000 cwt. 



Denmark is also unimportant as a hop-growing country, 

 there being only 260 hectares (650 acres) under this crop. 

 The production amounts to 2,000 to 3,000 cwt., and the con- 

 sumption to 12,755 cwt. 



Sweden and Norway. — Production in 1897, 5,100 cwt. ; 

 consumption, 15,415 cwt. 



Switzerland. — According to the Viennese brewing journal, 

 Gambrinus, 1,550 cwt. of hops were produced and 9,485 cwt. 

 consumed in 1897. 



United States. — The area under hops is about 56,200 

 acres. New York State is the principal centre of the 

 industry, and, according to Eamm, no less than 37,000 acres 

 of hop land were in cultivation there in 1889. Of the other 

 eastern States, Wisconsin, with, however, only 1,000 acres, is 

 the only other hop district. On the west coast hops are 

 grown on a large scale in California, Oregon and 

 Washington. 



American hops are mainly derived from English cuttings. 

 In quality they are mostly inferior and often bad, according to 

 Continental standards. The annual crop is between 300,000 

 and 500,000 cwt., and the consumption about 480,000 cwt. 

 (1897). The surplus, which in previous years was con- 

 siderable, is exported to Europe, England being the chief 

 buyer. 



Estimates of the acreage and cropping of American 

 hop gardens are generally inaccurate and unreliable. The 

 following report forwarded to the author by the late Dr. Max 

 Bitter von Proskowetz, Austro-Hungarian Consul at Chicago, 

 considerably modifies the currently accepted conditions of 

 the American hop-growing industry. 



