The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-31
TOO LATE TO BEGIN SPRAYING.
Those Who Have Delayed Until Now
Will Lose Their Hops.

Those Who Have Delayed Until Now
Will Lose Their Hops.
PUYALLUP, July 30-[SpeciaI. The past
| week has been fine growing weather and
| the hops are responding. Some show the
| burr half an inch in diameter, while
| others do not show the flower at
all. The growth of the hop is very
| uneven this year, the most advanced being
still fully two weeks behind the usual ad-
! vancement at this season of the year. The
| hop aphis shows itself everywhere and
seems TO be more uniformly dispersed
| through the yards than last year. AS was
| prophesied. number of growers waited
until too late to secure sprayer, or, if Sc
cured, too late TO effect much good, as the
| lice enter the burr as soon as the hop BIOS
SONS and it is impossible to reach them
| there and there they stay until the hop de-
Gays and they die. A number of grow ers
at Centralia and on the Stuck would Ii Ike
TO secure machines, but the manufacturers
have not decided as yet whether it is best
| to turn out any more machines this sea-
! son or not. They fear it will hurt the
name of the sprayer. as any machine, no
matter how good and effective, will or can
| do little or no good from now on if no
| spraying has been done previously.
w. c. Mccullough was over Thursday
from Christopher wanting very much to
invest in roller sprayer and the materi-
ais for the emulsion, but found it difficult
to secure anything in that line, as the
| sprayers are all gone and the quaisia chips
are nearly all gone. Mr.. McColough's ex-
perience with his seventeen acres and his
fathers four acres last year was that the
lice were not troublesome until late. He
did not attempt to spray until just before
the hops were ready to pick. The lice ap-
peared very bad, and the four acres were
| picked too early, so as to save them from
the lice, and cut very carelessly, conse-
quently the hops were of very little ac-
count and the roots rotted in the ground,
| so that half Of the four acres had to be re-
set this spring, while the seventeen acres
were stripped of all leaves a month and
two weeks before picking time up for eight
or ten feet, and the hops were allowed to
fully mature and two pole pullers secured,
who worked in concert. The vines were
cut five Or six feet from the ground and
gently unwound, and the pole was then
pulled. This left no leaves on the vine re-
naming attached to the root, but the
seventeen acres apparently suffered no
detriment, all of the hops being among
| the best raised in the state, with
the exception OF seven bales
| picked in the southeast corner
| of the yard. These were picked last and
were extremely heavy, although only one
| vine had been allowed to grow. These
| were picked by themselves and sold for
| red hops, being so infested with lice as to
| bring only Is cents. Mr.. Mccullough sue
| ceeded 50 well last year in escaping the
| lice that he thought to do the same this
| year, but he is of the opinion now that I'M
| less he sprays his crop will be lost 1t is
| lost, let him spray as much as he likes
| now.
| The hop-growers are beginning to feel
very much encouraged. especially those
! who have been working for the past three
| months, as there is likelihood of there
| being short hop crop the world over. A
| cablegram from London states that the
weather in England is unfavorable for
| hops, and although the vines were looking
| well the recent rainy, cold weather is very
| bad for them, and because of this hops
| have raised l cent in New York. Recent
| advices from New York are to the effect
that that state will produce about three
| fourths OF last years crop, or 100000 bales,
| this being due to the backward and I'M
| favorable season. Ezra Meeker states that
| it is too early to estimate the English
crop or our crop here. Everything is I'M
| certain here, but it will be less than last
| year. No vermin has appeared in New
| York state. 1t is about time for the
! winged aphis to leave, but it was observed
| on the 10Th inst.
| G. NJ. Golf, of Centralia, has fifty acres
| Of hops and had made up his mind that if
| the lice appeared this year he would pillow
up his yard, but last spring when he saw
| the roller sprayer work he Immediately
ordered one and mas kept it going and has
| succeeded SO we'll with it that he is going
to put out more hops next year.
| Hart Il Hughes have fifty acres of hops
at Slaughter and probably will lose them
all through procrastination. They are
now looking very industriously for the
| spraying materials, nut they are next to
impossible to find, although there are sew
eral firms interested in hop supplies.
| A little idea may be gained of the mag
| nitude OF the business and the amounts of
money handled in the hop industry, this
money all coming from abroad, either
! from London or the far East, by one firm
reporting a $4,000 business tor the past
| three months and two months more of
| work yet. People usually thin
there is not such a great amount of
money used in connection with the hop
industry except during the fall months
| while hop picking is going on and directly
after, when the transfers are made. Before
Puyailup had any bank it used
to be very hard to secure change
| enough. as the silver dollar was
in great demand and the merchants
who usually bought the hop tickets, COM
monty worth 81, that being paid per box,
was obliged to make a trip to Tacoma
| every two or three days to exchange their
gold for silver, which they brought up in
| specie bags, two men always going to-
gether in buggy for safety, as the wagon
! road runs parallel with the railroad and
the railroad during this season presenting
| almost continuous line of hop-plckers,
| tramps and vagabonds. They were
obliged 10 go with team. as their time
| was precious and the railroad service was
very poor then.
| Her Ten Comm and ments."
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