The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-23
HOP PICKING IN PROGRESS.
Pickers Complain OF Poor Wages-The
Weather Unfavorabie for RiUening.

PuYALLup, Sept. 2l-[speciai Hans
Paulson, of Elhi; Gardelii, of Sumner;
Willis Boatman, ID. NJ. Ross, Bow
man Annis and r. Granger, of Elhi,
aud Whitseli Bros. of 0rting, are EN-
ploying Indians as pickers. John Boat
man has sixteen Japs
The picking at the Kent yards will
probably last into October. They are now
loading for shipment.
Z. Meeker & Co. have bought the yard
belonging TO the Puget Sound Dressed
Beef and Packing Company at II cents,
and LIS piekers began picking last Thurs
day morning.
Considerable complaint is heard on the
street in regard to the pickers being CON-
PEELED to pick clean, so that il takes good
picker TO earn 81 day. They say a much
cleaner box is required this year than
last; that is, it must be freer Of leaves and
stems. 1t Is said New York box holds
seven and one-haif bushels and from 30 to
10 cents is paid. In Oregon the boxes
hold nine bushels and 50 cents is paid.
Here the boxes hold thirteen bushels and
81 is paid, but they are required to be
picked clean. A wall comes from Yakima
that only 81 is paid for box holding
eighteen bushels and that it takes an In
terminabie time to fill them, as the hops
will settle fiat
1t is thought that this week will finish
the best picking. William shuman is
picking his hops on the island this week
and next week will pick the Bal! yard.
J. V. Meeker thinks the hop crop will be
10 per cent. and perhaps 40 per cent, less
than was estimated earlier in the season,
which was ton TO the acre. and he now
estimates the yield 10 average 1. 400 pounds
to the acre. The quality is good. Mr..
Meeksr's hops sampled very fine. in fact.
better than for years past. The hops are
ripening very slowly. This makes il slow
business picking. as The pickers are laid off
frequently; they average one and one-haif
boxes apiece. Nermin are not troubling.
Mr.. Meeker will not be through before
October TO-
DIR. Spinning vas in last week from the
Stuck. lie has thirty-six acres and has
begun picking being troubled very little
with verinin. When asked how much his
piekers made, he reported THAI an in,pe-
cgnious. nimb.e-hRgered woman would
make s. per day. ghjle lazy, eassy man
would oaly make Sis
The hop yards in Oregon look well this
fall. the bulk Of the crop being raised in
the vicinity of Independence. The hon
poles used are round and two or three
inches in diameter. Every yard noticed
showed all lengths Of poles. whereas in
Washington it is the custom 10 use sp!it
cedar poles and all OF the same length.
which gives q much better appearance 10
the yard. AZ Lebanon, some distance up
the river from Independence. the hop in
uusiFy Is iast beginning. there being about
ieb acres "A snail tracts already bearing.
and there will be al increase next year Of
seventy-hve acres. On August - the
ward 81 Jacob Honck was visited, near
Lebanon. TIE soft is sandy loan. The
hops aid not look as fine and heavy as
oars &c Ia the valleys, bat they were very
clean OF vermia- Mr.. Hogck said he
~0ald net have a tai crop. due. be
thought, 10 the latencss OF the season last
spring. II 1t Should prove true. as Prof.
Riley. q Washington City, observes. that
a hsSh slate OF humidity causes an in
crease Of vefmin. Judging from short
ssay IN The Willamette valley dur
sac the latter parE of the SUM.
insE TIE central part az Western
oregon VII never tie troubled With
the bop lice. as The country is So Cat as 70
Ses tae Nnose benefit ot the sun. ana il
sAaf n Ga both sides with mountains. liz
L fsFy Naya and very dry, and practical
eKperaShee 50 far proves that Is il not
neAFiF So good . country FOR the propaga-
ton o! The 6op aphis as Washington. At
lebanon another industry was toand. j.
y l-auSsrson. dealer ia eaSoarA bark.
uFegoa grape root, atsassia wood. hons and
wcoi. has shipped this season III tons Of
sasaoara BARK from the mountains az
Oregon and Washington, twenty -sevea
tons going - Leadon, tire tons 20 Am.