732 = 466 
The Cultivation of Hops. 
by sulphur. 
worms. Fleas and jumpers are caught by shaking the hop-p( s 
violently, and holding boards covered with tar so that the insi s 
jump into it. Nothing has as yet been devised to check e 
ravages of the red spider ; but nature frequently does this y 
Mould or whit ' heavy showers of rain. Mould, occasioned by the fungus Spc • 
blight checked tJicca Castagnei, allied to the fungus that causes the vine-dise e 
known commonly as oidium, was formerly terribly injurious d 
hop-plants, but, like its ally, has been checked to a great exi t 
by the application of sulphur put on usually before the hops e 
in " burr" or bloom, with a machine called a sulphurator, dn x 
by a horse between the rows of plants, an illustration of wl i 
is given below (Fig. 4). Two separate applications of sulp r 
are usually made ; the first when the bine is just over the po , 
the second just before the " burr " or bloom appears. At t 
50 lbs. per acre is put on at each application, at a cost of al t 
^ , , . 15s. per acre each time. 
Sulphuring 
machines. 
Hop-harvest. 
The hop-harvest commences in the latter part of August 1 
lasts about three weeks. Hops are ready for picking when the s • 
biles are quite closed up, and the seeds are firm and dark-colou . 
Pickers come in great numbers from London to the hop-grow J 
districts of Kent and Sussex.* A Return made by the C « 
* There are permanent sheds erected on nearly all hop-farms for the 
pickers to sleep in. Some are extemporised with thatched hurdles. The sau: y 
