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of 19,150,464/. The value of the hops imported in the first ten 
years of this period was 8,507,871/., and for the second ten 
3 T ears, 6,652,593/. 
As a good deal of misconception exists with regard to the 
relative quantities of hops that are imported from the hop-pro- 
ducing countries, the following Table has been prepared, which 
proves that America, the chief bugbear of the English grower, 
is not the principal exporting country, and that Germany, though 
having an enormous acreage, has sent comparatively few hops 
here. 
The Principal Sou rces of Hops Imported into England hi the 
past Fifteen Years. 
Year 
America 
Germany 
Belgium and Holland 
Cwt. 
Value 
Cwt. 
Value 
Cwt. 
Va'ue 
£ 
£ 
£ 
1875 
42,405 
201,874 
91,752 
446,153 
118,155 
518,582 
1876 
67,752 
311,816 
40,761 
189,922 
56,084 
229,937 
1877 
llti,888 
577,650 
55,821 
256,804 
70,792 
310,625 
1878 
96,603 
351,711 
21,866 
83,233 
45,078 
152,853 
1879 
108,306 
496,886 
50,567 
237,618 
89,281 
424,890 
1880 
41,579 
209,665 
56,751 
249,372 
87,677 
388,833 
1881 
57,333 
274,470 
17,649 
90,026 
66,929 
301,311 
1882 
76,346 
579,064 
55,685 
521,928 
162,696 
1,518,900 
1883 
53,206 
493,570 
8,961 
78,648 
51,822 
386,876 
1881 
106,564 
727,454 
38,459 
231,375 
81,671 
472,767 
1885 
106,725 
422,003 
29,995 
115,692 
103,816 
359,515 
1886 
33,928 
108,213 
17,427 
55,261 
90,798 
244,052 
1887 
36,343 
111,086 
34,137 
95,659 
56,344 
158,020 
1888 
89,295 
346,313 
38,614 
138,896 
63,988 
211,869 
1889 
77,529 
272,115 
20,492 
72,214 
86,321 
287,664 
Belgium and Holland, according to this Table, stand first, 
with an annual average exportation of 82,076 cwt. during the 
past fifteen years. 1 America comes next, with 74,053 cwt. per 
annum; and then Germany, with 38,575 cwt. per annum. An 
average annual consignment of about 15,000 cwt. of hops has 
been sent from France to England during the same period, and 
a few hundredweights have come from Canada. Russia began 
first to export hops to England in 1882, and Australasia in 
1885 ; but their consignments are at present insignificant. 
Hop-growing in Australasia seems not to be profitable, as the 
acreage decreases. 
Exports of Hops from Great Britain. 
The exports of hops from Great Britain have averaged 
11,506 cwt. per annum in the last fifteen years. These are 
hops grown in this country. 
1 The hops imported from these countries are generally of a low class. 
