The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-10

sample much better this year than last. and
there - likelihood OF . better price this year
than last. No sales have been as vet reported.
+ Meeker Is Offering Is cents without any
takers- Lsst week this company shipped four
carloads to London and two 70 New YORK of
their own crop.
1t has been said that Ezra Mesker has advised
the holding OF the crop by the growers. When
asked II this was true, he said: ~No. never did
tning OF that kind. as know enough to know
tnat know nothing about ii, and do not advise
growers 70 sell or hold. But when q grower has
mace up his mind and Is ready to sell, will be
reaoy 10 buy" When asked IN regard to the
London and New York market he replied shat
the London marke. was little higher, but he
va NOT ADVISED OF any change in the market Of
New York"
MI. Gear, OF Grand Ronde vs1ley, Oregon, was
sent here By his neighbors to investigate thor
oughly the methods used here to fght the YER
min, ana he went home well pleased with what
he saw.
In regard to the late cultivation of hops, Mr.
Meeker says that IL resards their ripening and
tnat IL ID good idea to cultivate part of the
yard later than the rest, so a. to have the yard
mature gradually, great convenience in the
harvesting Tor all concerned, as il may then ex.
send over three weeks or more and all hops can
then be picked at the same stage of maturity
without 20 much fuss and worry as when
Large yard ripens all at once and must be picked
AZ soon as possible In such case the first hops
picked will be little too green. and the last
picked q tribe too ripe; again. it necessitsses
large kiln room and . large working force,
which 10 difficult to manage, az they are unac-
Qualnfsd and stay such short time that they do
not get used to the ways of the ranch, while .
smaller force would, by staying longer and work
ing slower. An old gentleman--an old settler
several years ago had four-acre yard situated
In the town of Puyallup. There were very hard
unes that year, and the town was full Of pickers
from everywhere and all kinds OF people. The
old gentleman expected to put in q small mum.
Der OF pickers and consume several days in the
YARD. de announced TO his pickers the day he
would begin and before daylight the yard was
iuil OF pickers, great many Of them men. aud
the yard was stripped before 10 o'clock q. m. the
hrst day in spite of all the remonstrances the old
gentleman could bring TO bear upon them. A
lew boxes were provided aud these were filled.
Then every receptacle possible was filled, when
noies were scooped In the ground and these
niied The old gentleman went out of the hop
business Many growers make 1t rule to allow
no one to pick without permission from the
yard boss. Some pickers come aud work . day
and are gone. Many people consider hop yard
Tree and walk in and begin to pick without
leave or license. The largest hop grower here
once gave his yard foreman orders to allow no
one to pick without his permission, and the fore
man In his rounds one morning found the grow
ers daughter-in-law filing box. He asked her
Tor her card Of admission, which she could not
show and which she had aot gotten, thinking it
unnecessary, but she had to get her ticket of ad-
mission before the foreman would allow her to
pick.
Quite q number of ladies of Puyallup have
been at Kent picking, and not all have yet re-
turned. Mrs Ollie Meeker Mcdonald has been
over, but returned on account OF the storm. A
number OF the young ladies OF the Presby terrain
church picked day for the church In J. p.
Stewards yard, which WIS quite near. They
averaged box each.
There seems to be no disposition among the
growers to sell. c. w. Stewart has stored his
hops and insured them for year, and says he
VIII not sell them unless he can get something
for them. By selling at IL cents he would clear
1900, and he has not personally spent two
hours week in his hop yard William Shu-
man has his hops stored out In the woods and
will not sell yet for while, but is looking after
his vegetables to get something to live on in the
meantime.
Theories are fast being proven or exploded by
the hop growers C. w. Stewart, who probably
the past season has come in touch with more
hop growers than any other one person, has
laid up on the shelf of his memory great mass
OF information. To do effective work with the
sprayer, he says, the ground must be clean of
all suckers, and every shoot and leaf for at
least foot from the ground must be pruned
away, because the sprayer cannot reach the un-
der side Of the leaves lower than that, and II
Left without spraying the vsrmin thrive and as
cend the pole, keeping on the inside 20 much
that It 10 impossible 70 kill them and the Vine
cannot Be kept clean. Mr.. Stewart has eleven
acres in all He tried the above plan with four
acres. and found that part clean when the rest
OF the yard was not so clean. Next year he will
treat all the yard in this way, and he says
method, and by spraying all the new
shoots and leaves, a. this 10 the
place selected by the fly to deposit her young.
Mr.. Stewart thinks that there 10 no necessity OF
spraying after the hop 10 in bloom, al his four
acre yard was not sprayed for nine weeks before
picking, which was commenced September Is,
yet tho hops were clean and in good condition.
The greatest difficulty 10 in getting soap that
will kill. The firss obtained by E. Meeker &
Co, MI. Stewart said, was perfect, but since the
LIST Of July no good soap has been in the market
The second lot from T. Meeker 4 Co. was
analysed by pharmacist and found TO contain
80 per cent soap ana 20 per cent. water, the
same a. the FIRST, but for some reason 1t was not
good, and no one seems able to tell the reason
why. Mr.. Stewart used a. high as sixteen
pounds of soap to seventy-hve gallons of water.
and II did net succeed in killing these lice. X.
J. Silly, OF Marion, said he made ordinary soft
soap, which, after standing, had . surplus of
alkal. He added whale oil and sprayed with
this soap, twelve or fourteen pounds TO 100 gal
Ions OF water. He said the lice were not killed
Immediately, but died In day or two. He says
he 10 quito an expert at making ordinary soft
soap, but he could do nothing with the whale
oil alone, and could not find where the failure
lay Mr.. Stewart says that he wants good whale
oil soap another year. and that If firm would
manufacture and guarantee the same, and not
try to see how cheaply they can make it. but
how good, they would fnd ready sale. When
asked what his theory was in regard
to the long continued presence Of the
ny, he said 1t was probably due
to tho peculiar season and In some degree to not
discriminating the lice last year. 40 ia Conrad's
yard, where the hops were not picked last year
on account Of the presence OF the vermin, the
ny appeared four weeks earlier this year than In
yards where the vermin had been extermiuated
In degree. Most Of the growers did not rush
the picking this year, as they did last year, and
much better care was taken Of the vines, which,
with scarcely any exceptions. were cut from
four to six feet from the ground, and most Of
them bled freely. Then they were picked q
little before they were quite In the proper degree
OF maturity. Mr.. Stewart says that after the
middle OF October . yard may be cleaned with
impupity, but If yard has been kept clean all
summer 1t could be left till next spring and no
then could keep it clean.
Ono gentleman, who has been travelling good
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