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cultivation. Means should also be provided for enabling 

 the poorer growers to visit these exhibitions. 



7. Strenuous endeavours must be made to root out the 

 class of unscrupulous middlemen. In this task the growers, 

 consumers and respectable merchants should combine. 

 Institutes for guaranteeing the origin of hops are also 

 necessary in the interests of both grower and brewer ; and, 

 wherever possible, growers should unite to form, sale 

 associations. State assistance being given (as in Germany) 

 where funds are too scanty for this purpose. The State- 

 is also intervening in Russia to aid the local hop industry. 



8. An eye should be kept upon the favourable adjust- 

 ment of imports and freight tariffs applying to hops. 



9. Another means of furthering not merely the hop 

 industry, but agriculture generally, would be a thorough 

 readjustment of the conditions of agricultural credit, and 

 the establishment of Associations. This would relieve the 

 former from many difficulties, and the necessity for com-^ 

 pulsory sales would be rendered less frequent. 



The German Hop Growers' Association has done good 

 service to the industry in that country, and its example 

 is worthy of imitation in other countries. 



