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Hop Cultivation. 
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tionshave averaged 193,943 cwt. 1 per annum during the last ten 
years. The chief exporting countries are Belgium and Holland, 
from which quantities of hops of inferior quality are sent. 
America comes next, and Germany next. 
The following table shows the quantities of hops exported from 
each country into Great Britain in 1891, and their value : — 
Hops Imported into Great Britain in 1891. 
Belgium and Holland . 
Cwt. 
. 77,1)92 
£ 
346,776 
United States of America . 
. 80.226 
426,068 
Germany .... 
. 17,199 
91,689 
France .... 
. 15,896 
94,813 
Russia .... 
301 
1,135 
Other foreign countries 
16 
11G 
Total 
. 191,627 
960,597 
In 1892 the quantity of hops imported into Great Britain 
was 187,507 cwt. Their value, and the details as to the 
countries from which they were exported, have not yet been 
published. 
It is estimated that the total amount of hops grown in 
England during the last ten years, ending 1892, is equal to 
4,852,381 cwt., or an annual average yield of 485,238 cwt. 
The quantity of hops required on an average for a year’s con- 
sumption in Great Britain is estimated at between 000,000 cwt. 
and 050,000 cwt. 2 
In order to show the extent of hop cultivation in the world, 
the figures published in 1892 by Messrs. Barth, German hop 
merchants, may be quoted. According to these, there are 
287,395 acres of hop land in the world, of which 229,895 acres 
are in Europe, 55,000 in America, and 2,500 in Australia. 
A further interesting estimate, issued by Messrs. Barth, 
shows that the total produce of the world’s hop land was 1 ,560,000 
cwt. in 1892, while the total consumption of hops for the same 
year is put at 1,624,000 cwt. 
The prices of hops fluctuate exceedingly, ranging from 21. ] 0s. 
to 5/. per cwt. in abundant seasons, to 20/., and even 30/. in 
those when the yield is very small. The average price of the 
last thirty years is about 7/., and if the average crop is reckoned 
at 7 cwt. per acre, there does not appear to be a large margin 
1 Against this must be set 8,91 7 cwt., the annual average amount of 
foreign hops exported from Great Britain during the past ten years. 
2 From the total available supplies of English and foreign hops imported 
into England, 127,920 cwt. of English and foreign hops exported from Great 
Britain during the last ten years must be deducted ; or 12,792 cwt. per annum. 
