Hop Production in the United States. 495 



agricultural education in that country, that the British 

 farmer who does not understand how a profit can be made 

 out of Swedish butter at present prices must look for an 

 explanation. 



Hop Production in the United States. 



The Board have received from the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture an intimation that no official estimate of 

 the production of hops in that country has been made since 

 that published in one of the Reports of the Census of 1890. In 

 a circular issued on the i8th January last, Mr. John Hyde, 

 the Statistician of the Department at Washington, repro- 

 duces the following particulars as to the acreage and pro- 

 duction of hops in the United States, as given in the census 

 of 1890. The aggregate production of hops in 1889 for 

 seventeen States, upon 50,212 acres, was 39,171,270 lbs. 

 The area and production in the five leading States were 

 as follows : — 



States. 



Acres. 



Lbs. 



New York . - . - 



36,670 



20,063,029 



Washington - - - - 





8,313,280 



California - - . - 



3>974 , 



6,547,338 



Oregon . . . . 



3,130 



3,613,726 



Wisconsin . . . . 



967 



428,547 



The Census Bulletin No. 143 gave the yield of crops 

 in 1890 as 36,872,854 lbs., then worth ;£2, 300,000, the 

 average yield per acre being, in California 1,648 lbs., in 

 Washington 1,626 lbs.; in Oregon, 1,155 lbs.; in New York, 

 547 lbs.; in Wisconsin, 443 lbs.; and in the whole United 

 States 780 lbs. The average prices therein stated were, for 

 1889, about 5d. per lb., and for 1890 about is. 3d. per lb., 

 the first-named year being one of over-production. 



The circular of January last quotes the following later 

 estimates from an unofficial source. 



The Annual Review of The California Fruit Grower of 



