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Fifty Years of Hop Farming. 
canvas. Planters are particular to get bright, heavy qualities 
of "pocketing' - to preserve the hops, that the pockets may 
look well. 
Fig. 6. — A Hop-pressing Machine. 
Hops were originally packed by men jumping in the bag? 
and pockets suspended in mid-air from the cooling-iloors. Thi* 
was a very laborious and thirsty operation. It has been utterly 
superseded by pressing-machines, whose even action prevents 
the disintegration of the cones, and puts the hops together 
