578 
Management of Hops. 
perly and well;, but more particularly on the supply and demand. 
I will therefore state as near as I can the average prices for well- 
cut poles of a growth from 12 to 14 years : — 
16 fc t 
1-i feet 
12 feet 
10 iret 
Poles. 
Poles. 
Poles. 
Poles. 
Poles. 
£. s. d. 
£. 5. d. 
£. s, d. 
£. s. (/. 
£ . s, d. 
Chesiiiit ..... 
2 8 0 
2 0 0 
1 10 0 
1 0 0 
0 8 0 
2 5 0 
2 0 0 
1 14 0 
1 2 0 
0 10 0 
Asli, willow, and maple 
2 0 0 
1 11 0 
1 8 0 
Oak, bircli, beech, &c. . 
1 10 0 
1 6 0 
1 0 0 
Mixed ash, willow, &c.,l 
with oak, birch, beech, > 
1 16 0 
1 10 0 
1 4 0 
0 10 0 
0 7 0 
As all articles have an intrinsic value, and the price will be in 
proportion to it, so it is with hop-poles, that the annual cost to 
the planter will be about the same whatever sort or length he 
buys (although, as in most things, the best is the cheapest), 
taking a term of 20 years together, as the following table will 
show : — 
A Table showing about the Annual Cost of keeping a Ground supplied 
wilh Poles, taknig the prices of the asii, willow, and maple, the mixed 
12 and 10 feet poles, as shown in a foregoing Table : — 
18-feet poles, 3O0O on au acre, will require, lo keep it su|)iilied, 400 new 
])oles, ut 40s. ......... 
Value of 400 poles taken out, at 12s. ...... 
Net cost 
IG-feet poles, 3000 on an acre, will require 500 new poles, at 'Ms, 
500 poles taken out, at 10^, . . . . . . 
1 l-fect poles, 3000 on an acre, will require GOO new poles, at 28s. 
000 poles taken out, at fcs. , . . . . . . 
12-feet ])oles, 3600 on an acre, will require 1000 new pules, at IGs. 
1000 poles taken out, at 4«. ...... 
V. 
s. 
(/. 
8 
0 
0 
2 
8 
0 
5 
12 
0 
8 
10 
0 
3 
10 
0 
G 
0 
0 
8 
8 
0 
2 
8 
0 
6 
0 
0 
8 
0 
0 
2 
0 
0 
£C 
0 
0 
To the above annual cost of 6/. per acre must be added the 
carriage of poles home ; sharping and shaving those that require it, 
will be about 71. per acre annual expenditure for poles, leaving 
the poles in about the same state, and of the same value, as when 
the hop-ground was taken ; or if the planter has furnished a new- 
planted ground with all new poles, no new ones will be required 
for the next year, and but few for several years of the large 
sorts of jioles, but the average annual cost will be about the same, 
calculating the depreciation of the value of them. 
