The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-20
hops MOVING FREELY,
nut 20 Cents IL the Best Priee-Tl
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Sermin Question.
PUrALLUr, Dec. 1o.-fSpeeiaI The hop busi-
ness ID moving. Ross Brothers have consigned
their crop of $1,000 pounds to Isaac Pincus.
a. Z. Campbell bought last week 800 bales OF
"asningtons in small lots from different SEC
tions, one lot coming from the Cowlitx
The crops of J. II. Thompson, w. Vase, C. W.
stewart, 4. L. Samson and q portion OF Lloyd d
spinning's are included in the 500 bales
eeTsnty-six bales were purchased of E. c. Aer-
riiL These hops we're shipped Saturday by Mr..
Campbell to Soakes. Son, Collard 4 Co, of Lon.
oon, from Puyallup. with the exception of sixty
bales There were seven car loads. L. Meeker
q Co. bought forty-one bales OF choice hops at
ABOUT ID cents per pound from Mr. Kirkland, of
Lake Tspps.
J. P. Stewart sold TO william J. Thompson, Of
the arm of Thompson. Pratt q Co. grocery deal
ers In Tacoma, sufficient hop roots to set out
twenty acres, which will be Put out in the
Yakima country.
The London market il about the same
l. Meeker 10 busily engaged in collecting and
arranging the different points regarding the
culture OF the hop, and especially the causes of
the success OF q few hop growers the past season
In their treatment of the vermtn. Any grower
VINO this year can produce a choice sample OF
nops can give some valuable information
which Will help other growers to raise good
crop next year, or If . good CROP was raised this
year It may lessen the cost next year.
In discussing soaps, Mr.. Meeker said IL soap
could be made for ~ cents per pound that
would be effective it would save him between
*5,oVo snd $500, and he is beginning to think
tlat the soap is simply vehicle to convey the
poison OF the quassia to the insect, and that
soap ls soap, whether made OF whale, dogfsh or
any other oil Still, some other growers think
the soap should be made OF either whale or fish
OIL. They cannot explain the reason, except
that the more abominab!e the smell the better
IL seems to externinate the pests.
On the 18th 1913 bales of Oregons were pur-
chased by E. Mseker & Co., and on the 14th LAG
oaies Oregons. at Is and % cents; and POI bales,
also OF Oregons, making the weeks purchase 1O0
oaies. On the 18th lots of IS, 81, IL and Sc bales
were bought. One thousand four hundred bales
were sold in London last week and /, 100 bales
bought.
G. c. Campbell received on Saturday lots of 30
bales from Harmon, 81 from Willard, 25 from
Leach, Is from ]. c. Taylor ond q from a Cor
man, all from orting, and q bales from Jenue-
man. Nearly ali of these will be consigned to
london, advances having been made upon
them. After shipping the seven cars Saturday
Mr. Campbell has already hops enough on hand
to MI four cars more. Mr.. Campbell is buying
for the London firm OF Noakes, son, Collard &
Co, and for Charles GruIn. Son, Brainsrd d Co..
of Waterylie, n Y.
NJ. J. Meeker is adding thirty acres to his yard
OF thirty acres this winter, a small portion of
which is now being cleared. Mr. Meeker ex-
poets to have the hops set and polled py Feb
ruary Z
N. ]. Meeker and W. A. Templeton are in Ore
gon receiving 1000 bales OF hops for f. Meeker
& Co.
In Oregon today sixty-four bales were bought
by +. Meeker & Co at Is cents. The Oregon
market is quiet It is estimated that l2,coo to
$1,000 bales have been sold in oregon and only
about 5000 left.