344 Fifty Years of Hop Farming. 
An account of the exports of hops in each year from 1875, 
with their value, is given below : 
Exports of Hops from Great Britain. 
Year 
Cwt. 
Year 
Cwt. 
£ 
£ 
1875 
13,140 
86,691 
1883 
8,787 
90,462 
1876 
20,305 
144,736 
1884 
8,913 
55,234 
1877 
13,508 
88,635 
1885 
7,094 
40,410 
1878 
12,520 
57,220 
1886 
19,142 
70,752 
1879 
7,153 
43,771 
1887 
12,515 
49,994 
1880 
9,018 
52,647 
1888 
8,289 
48,382 
1881 
13,727 
81,078 
1889 
10,293 
51,012 
1882 
8,186 
81,534 
Total . 
172,590 
1,042,558 
Besides these, during the same period 171,962 cwt. of hops 
grown in foreign and colonial countries have been re-shipped 
from Great Britain, equal to an annual average quantity of 
11,464 cwt. The total value of the hops grown in foreign and 
colonial countries and exported from Great Britain since 
1874 'is 782,51 11. 
Australasia and India have taken the greater part of the 
home-produced hops exported from Great Britain. 
Cost of Production. 
The expenses of producing hops have been materially in- 
creased since 1840 : but they are not so great as they were ten 
years back. Labour is not so expensive, manures are not so 
dear, and rents have been reduced, while poles are cheaper. 
Towards the end of the last century the cost of hop-production, 
as given by Arthur Young, 1 was 31Z. 10s. per acre, made up as 
follows : — 
£ J. d. 
Rent 3 0 0 
Tithe 0 10 0 
Rates 0 10 0 
Labour of all sorts 10 0 0 
Manure 4 0 0 
Dutv, about 5 0 0 
Poles 300 
Drj 'ing, packing, &c 2 0 0 
Interest on outlay and cost . . . .10 0 
Interest of capital . . . . . . 2 10 0 
£31 10 0 
1 Annals of Agriculture. 15y Arthur Young, Esq., F.R.S. Vol. II., p. 166. 
