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Hop Cultivation, 
Upon larger farms horse-machines are adopted. They are 
long tanks upon two wheels, fitted with strong pumps moved 
by the wheels, which force the liquid through rows of tubes 
having holes perforated in them, and adjusted so that the wash 
is sent up evenly over the plants. 
In a horse hop-washing machine lately patented by Mr. Muir- 
head, of Maidstone, rows of pipes, which can be easily adjusted, 
having chambered nozzles, are substituted for the perforated tubes 
FlG. 8. — A Hand Hop-washing Machine. 
arranged in rows. This machine will distribute from 100 to 
350 gallons per acre, being intended, as its name of “ Mistifier ” 
implies, to diffuse liquid in a dense mist. The ordinary horse 
hop-washing machines put on from 500 to 700 gallons per acre. 
There are two sizes of these machines, one requiring two horses 
and the other only one. 1 
The expense of washing with these machines is not much 
less than by hand ; but the advantage of them is that a large 
1 The cost of horse hop-washing machines is from 35 1. to 48/. 
