The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-31

1j.sH OBSERVERS" NOTES
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ths Coming season.

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~ the hop reason Of 1850 from the
standpoint, and will b. Of interest
rportance 70 growers on the Paci6c
HI q taken from the Kexfi1k o.
- a the best authorities On either
InsoDon Of 18sa, it says. viii occupy
out place among remarkable hop
The main features being the
whether the plantations would not
70 the attacks Of vermin and
shen tie happy results Of genial
that produced m average crop OF
sxoslient quality, followed by the
unlocked for besgariy prices 1t
he crop 30 rapidly paused into the
u buyers.
The pIanters' point of view II has
Z most disastrous year, for not only
compelled TO spend vast sums 70
IL aphis and mould in check. but
- vas successful in harvesting 3
1xeslIent crop. he eagerly solicited
66ors for his heps, sven at = daily de-
currency, 80 that at the end Of
4 VS. found that this most exceI-
1erop has nearly all passed into other
& . price far less than the cost Of
1cljon.
The buyers point OF view 1889 has
Z kiodous year; he has had three
inI Inducements for guidance: first
~ . needy PLANTER, . most anxious
M6dv seIier. then there Was an article
md quality TO deal with. and lastly.
stimulus through the country Of
Hcrnousiy revived trade. the working
king IN full employ, ct enhanced
Which means an increased con
I'm Of bsef and beer.
nDofhy has been expressed for the
ItnG farmers generally. all over the
I'm. but the patient hop planter with
nooonuarily larger capital for hts busi-
oortainly invites compassion from the
moss Of beer .inA much as the national
should be the product Of two raw
EiaIs that the home grower seems des-
% b compelled TO grow 81 . positive
3 himself and equally As positive
II q wealth TO the brewer.
E6t calling must IL b 70 the many
p1snters, Who got rid Of thsir growths
6oosly, TO lind that had they but waited
difference Of 50 per cent. in their
would hare resulted. Perhaps some
ppophsF viii arise and point out and
IN 70 those hop planting gentlemen
6ucnliarity In their minds composition
fbey refuse 70 sell when prices rule
nd On the contrary TO he msdly in
- rushing their produce at any price
p ynluss rule low. No doubt there IL .
5on q the phenomena, but II Is as yet
unoovsred. Looking hack to the past
! moaths II does seem inexplicabie how
11sss. In the face Of this vast increase
Esds. should have shown such
1ee anxiety 10 see their prop
70 into other peoples pos
IT : great loss to themselves.
IN enigma. hut eli riddles have . 70
and this fiasco can possibly Be- ex-
=. II may b thst In the three pre-
yeass IL September and October
showed how misplaced Il was 10 h0pe
November and December would hiring
Yer prices, or it may Be that among the
al growers of the Weald and SUSSEX the
- Of previous years had inpoverished
b sxchequer, and thus these early offers
- a~cccpted--in fact they had been
1ght before by refusing bids. But ii
excuses hold good among little men,
~ b 70 b said for the big Mid and East
ut plantersf Necessity did not make
~ hurry their produce on the market.
~ should men who for years have let
II erowths accumulate to be afterwards
h q lot, Be induced in this season to
III the market early with portions of the
9pA. accepting = price that now Gems
zlous from its smallnessf
- total clearance Of the years growth
! = early . period reminds one Of the
lS12. since which time nothing like
. present state Of the borough market
II heen seen. In that year the cause of
"a Sudden extraordinary demand and rise
! peices was due to the failure of the
|aeu1can crop. Home buyers had been
"a clevsrly kept in the dark AS to this
1zsse; In fact, large imports were ex-
zed. which kept prices in the borough
"a 70 . low level. but when IL leaked out
when the Yankee said white he meant
~, and that instead OF selling he meant
-s@s, things became unusually lively in
through. The home crop was IL ls72a
q ARG one and Of good quality. II fol-
- The short crop Of 1871. and like the
MI stats Of trade the country business
pod. and values increased by leaps
bounds.
tAn b about the same position the trade
= os--the demand seems likely 10 out.
~ supply no matter whether foreign
ssetish. and prices harden every week.
Snai wonder that buyers look back upon
nm . different view to that which the
saed grower does. He. poor fellow. has
. omforsed with the old comforting as
- mat he has got . capital opening
Esnosner year. This Is a dead u
esnerai clearance of all dates of hops
nis0 takes place, and i, looks rs II
w Dc The case-why. then when Sep
lis comes round, this old England
- via be as bare of hops as she was
Spesmeer. isSs. Perhaps some COM
- WI arise on the reduction Of the
-shsch is f~ortanase--the remedy
an every year even If you grub old
s-fof bear IN mind that when a blight
0Ome u Is the young ground that
In the storm. and il Il rroxtnv hons