The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-27

Hop Growers Are Busy Putting
Yards in Trim.
HoPLoUsEro BE DIFFERENTIATED
Mr. Campbell, Planter and Buyer, Re.
views the Market OF lsec-Psttsrso~,
OF Oiequa, Sells His Hops.


PuYALLur. March o6.-rSpeciall--Th
mop business is starting here in earnest.
There seems to be more activity than
usual and determination by the growers
to raise good crop in spite of the hop
louise, which, by the way, all growers so
lar as known are preparing to fight, and
preparing to night to externinate. No one
has been heard to say: If the vermin
come will do thus and so. "as they did last
year. and then. after the lice had made its
appearance. wait until they could SEQ
that they were doing damage before they
even prepared to fight them. The growers
seem to acknowledge now that the vermin
Is here, and here TO stay FOR time. and
that If crop is TO be raised preparations
must be made to fight the pest in the same
manner as the English grower.
Two good horsepower sprayers will b.
turned out this spring in Puyallup, both OF
which were out last spring, but have been
remodeled and perfected during the win
ter. One Is the roller sprayer. This
sprayer Is cubical in appearance, being
longer than it is wide, and has all the
machinery, pumps not excepted, inside
OF the reservoir, all of which will be kept
clean by the emulsion and free from sand.
Only two wheels, which carry the reser-
voir and the spray pipes, will be on the
outside of the reservoir.
All vegetation is backward this spring,
the hop roots rs we'll as everything else.
NJ. J. Meeker says these have not advanced
in growth beyond the January stage. Mr..
Meeker has eighteen acres which are
sandy and dry. already set out, but twelve
acres, in which he is to set out roots this
spring, is lower ground, and he will not
put IN the roots until later, perhaps not
before the middle of April.
Ezra NJ. Meeker is putting in between
twenty-five and thirty acres in Maplewood
In five-acre tracts and upwards. They
finished setting the poles there this week.
Mr.. Meeker has shipped $500 hop roots to
British Columbia and l0.oOO to Oregon.
He will himself receive about 500, 900 roots
from California, they being the Same
variety. but it was thought advisable to
have change of plants.
No work has been done in the ground on
Campbell & Sons ranch at Yakima, be-
cause of the backwardness of the season.
Two of the Campbells went over Thurs
day night to see if they could begin work
there. They have been improving the
tituc SItCe the purchase Vi Tic aklHlo
ranch in erecting buildings, stables, etc.
The hops on this ranch we're put out a
year ago. but not poled. but corn planted.
A good crop of the latter was raised, and
1t was said that if the yard had been poled
1t would have been possible to have Sc
cured a quarter of crop of hops. which is
something unusual east of the mountains.
Mr.. Campbell thinks he can begin work
next week, 0.0OO poles having already ar
rived, and the remaining 1900 will DO
there soon. Mr.. Campbell has been in the
hop business for the past fifteen years, and
he says:
The past year was the hardest year to contend
with, the hardest to come at the market and use
judgment 1t is hard to deal in hops when they
are dropping all the time. The samples were
not good to sell from, and were hard to match,
whom. in other years 1t is easy. In q crop OF 100
bales fifty may have matched and the rest not.
They were of mixed quality, no two crops
alike.
1t will be remembered that Just this
difficulty was predicted early last fall by
the Posr-INTELLIGENCER. When asked
the reason assigned for this difficulty, Mr..
Campbell replied:
lay II to the presence Of vermin ana tho poor
quality OF hops. In previous years ali the crops
throughout the fuyallup aud White river val
ieys were alike, one mans crop was like all
Others. One sale established a price. A ripper
hop is liked better in London than elsewhere.
In reviewing the market since the open
ing last fall Mr.. Campbell said:
This year the first opening of the market was
best for the growers. aud those who sold theil
hops then had received the best price obtain
able up TO date. and eight times out OF ten the
grower who sells his hops at the opening Of the
market comes ont the best man does best to
sell quick doubt II they recover what they
started at in the beginning, 20 or 81 cents
Campbell Il Son bought the crop Of A.
NJ. Patterson, of Olequa, which con-
sisted of $50 bales. for Is cents per pound,
for Noakes. Son, Collard & Co., of Lon
don. England. A special train is now
being prepared to take them To New York,
and they will be received on Monday.
These hops are choice. and are the best of
any left in the state at the present time,
and this was the largest purchase made
at one time from one grower. 1t took
just twenty-four hours and fifteen min
utes TO complete the purchase. At :i5
O'Clock Wednesday last the order was re-
ceived here by Mr.. Campbell. He took
the train Immediately for Olequa, and ut
4 o'clock wired his son, J. Harry Camp
bell, that the hops were bought, and he
cabled London by O'Clock and received
an answering cable az 80 on Thursday
morning.
The market this week, with the exeep-
ton of the above, has stood at Is cents
when three weeks ago it stood at Is cents
for choice.
George Rase bought this week Fred Cur
locks crop of some fifty and odd bales.
r. G. Merrill has his forty-acre tract al
ready pu, out at Independence, Polk
county, Or. This will be a treilis yard.
Five car loads of posts have been shipped
from Skookum Chuck, Wash, to Mr.. Mer-
riil's yard.
LONDON MARKET
Thomas Short, of London, make the follow
ing report on the state Of the English market:
The low prices lately ruling for English hops
and fair amount OF business has been done in
these.
Continental markets have recovered some
what, aud prices ara cent. and Tor some quail
ties, cents higher. The demand Tor these hops
here In slow.
states-There arc a good quantity on our mar.
ket, but ~ holders ideas are much higher than
buyers very lew parcels change hands.
Pacihc-Good mediums maintain their full
values, but for common qualities sellers are
willing to concsds To cent TO make busi-
ness.
Quotations; Kents, 2o0sesc; Sussex. lssD25c;
Bavarians and Burgundiss, 2l1l51ac; states. ~
gre, Pacihcs, aG21c.