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of hops and the estimation of the hop harvest in 1906, abstracted 

 from the 4 th Quarterly Volume of Statistics of German Empire. 



The rating of the 1361 hop-parishes, i. e. communities in which the 

 area cultivated with hops is at least 5 hectares, showed in the fields 

 of these parishes an area of 36459,5 hectares under cultivation, of which 

 in the current year 1070 hectares, and in the previous year 2342,9 hectares, 

 had been newly laid out. The older fields which only are decisive for the 

 harvest, had an area of 33046,6 hectares. The total harvest in the hop 

 parishes was estimated at 19825 700 kilos, or an average of 540 kilos against 

 740 in the previous year. 



On the strength of the position determined for the hop parishes with 

 the co-operation of experts in the hop cultivation, the expected harvest has 

 then been estimated for the hop gardens situated in parishes with less 

 than 5 hectares hop area, and for which no report on the prospect of the 

 harvest has been received. This supplementary estimate was only required for 

 2401 hectares, or 6,2 °/ of the total area. The final result is that for the total 

 area of 38861 hectares in September of this year a crop of 21 039300 kilos 

 was expected, distributed as follows: — 



in 1906 against 1905 



Virgin hops 43 6ooks.= 0,2 °/ i97 2ooks.= °>7 °/o ( (Field 



Fields of 1905 1 197 500 „ = 5,7°/ M34900 „ = 4>9 7o{ f IQ(U x 



Yield of f Very good 4328900 „ ==2O,6°/ 9339500 „ =31,9 °/ l ^ ^ 



Good 10345200 „ =49,2°/ 15527300 „ =53,1 °/ 



Medium 3506100 „ =i6,7°/ 2674100 „ = 9,1 °/ 



Belowmedium 1002300 „ = 4,7 °/ 34400 „ = 0,1 °/ 



I Small 615700,, = 2,9°/ 49 50o„ = o,2°/ 



The demand for hop oil last year was not particularly brisk, and 

 even the United Kingdom, which is otherwise one of the principal 

 consumers, showed itself very reserved. We have been unable to 

 discover whether the slow demand is accidental, or whether the con- 

 sumption itself has fallen off. 



Oil of Juniper Needles. In their communications on the oils 

 of some American conifers, R. E. Hanson and E. N. Babcock 1 ) also 

 give some particulars of the oil distilled in the beginning of May from 

 the leaves and branches of Juniperus communis L. from which the 

 berries had been removed. They obtained a bright - yellow oil in a 

 yield of 0,15 to o,i8°/ (d2oo 0,8531) which had a characteristic 

 juniper odour. 



In connection herewith we would mention a juniper oil distilled 

 from the berries and needles, which we recently received from 

 Russia. It behaved as follows: di 5 o 0,8675; a r> -j~ 8°46 / ; ester no. 1 1,4; 

 soluble in 6 and more vol. 90 per cent, alcohol, with slight turbidity. 



It differs from the ordinary distillate from juniper berries only by 

 the dextrorotation, and in this respect agrees with two Russian juniper 



the 



older 



fields 



with the 



remark 



*) Journ. Amer. Chem. Soc. 28 (1906), 1198; comp, also the present Report, 

 p. 84, and Gildemeister and Hoffmann, The Volatile Oils, p. 270. 



