Hop Production in Washington and Oregon. 245 



calf-skins, hide cuttings or parings, and glue stock the 

 product of neat cattle shipped from or the product of the 

 countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and South 

 America, except those which have been dry salted or 

 arsenic cured, or lime dried after a soaking for forty days in a 

 strong solution of lime, and except abattoir hides the product 

 of Sweden, Xorway, and Great Britain* in all cases where the 

 invoices are not accompanied by proper certificates of disin- 

 fection. As consular officers have been instructed to refuse 

 authentication of invoices of hides not properly disinfected, 

 the disinfection in the United States, or storage of such hides 

 in general order warehouse, will not be permitted, as the 

 passage of diseased hides through the country, or their 

 storage with other goods, would tend to disseminate cattle 

 disease in the United States.'"'' 



In a recent number of the United States Crop Reporter it 



Valley. According to a commercial estimate, which was con- 

 sidered reliable by the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, the production of Washington in 1894 and 1805 was 

 49,000 bales and 28,800 bales, and that of Oregon 63,000 and 

 99,500 bales respectively. In 1896, however, it fell to a lower 

 figure than for many previous years, but since that date 

 considerable progress has been made. Low prices, and more 

 especially the ravages of the hop-plant louse, were the chief 

 causes of the depression, but success in combating the pest^ 

 together with rising prices, has given new life to the industry, 

 and led to an extension in the area cultivated ; and the 

 production of Washington in 1900 was estimated to amount 

 to 33,254 bales and in Oregon to 81,200 bales. 



* Moist hides imported from these three countries are admitted without 

 disinfection into the United States upon the production of certificates that they are 

 the product of such countries, and stripped from perfectly healthy cattle in those 

 countries. {See Journal of the Board of Agriadinie, Vol. V. 3 March, 1899, 



Hop Production 

 in Washington 

 and Oregon 



is stated that the production of hops in 

 Washington is largely confined to the 

 western half of the State, while in Oregon 

 it is practically limited to the Willamette 



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