Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-07-23
THE wAsaINefoN HoP cRor


PUYALLUP CITIZEN, Juiy 20 Louis
Lschmund received telegram from
New York this week informing him
that the price ofhoIs have fallen cent
making them cents.
f. Meeker 4 Co. commenced spray
ing Saturday, and intend to go over
the yards once unless the lice increase
80 as to make it necessary to spray
agaiu.
The price of picking wsS fixed at 81
per box by the Yakima Hop Growers
association. 100 lbs Uf gre-n hops was
allowed for box. The privilege Of a.
lowing growers of yer.ing hops to pay
Sl.25 per box, II necessary, was granted.
Hops are in fine condition. Weather
Is very forcing. The rsin will brighten
the vines aod do them good.
The crop here is going TO be very
light on sn average. The msjoTity will
not yield more than 30 It's. to the acre,
while the best of yards will yield about
1850.
Buyers and growers who sre good
authority report Ice Increasing very
fast. O-e grower szys Le fDuud ii e
fiy On une hill, which when hatched
will make millions Of lice. He saws,
also, that where the lice were sffecting
ouly the main vine a few days ago,
t4ey are now working their way up on
the arms.
a. c. Campbell returned from Yak
ms and reports hops in fine condition.
Thinks the yield there will be about
!, 800 lbs. to the acre on an average. He
THINKS growers there will not be able
TO get enough Indian piekers. There
will be about IS 600 bales of hops 10
that district where in '92 there was
1bly 900 aud IN 'oS 1000.
Hops sre in bloom, but later and 8
lighter crop than last year. Mr.. Camp
bell d.'es not look forward to good
price on account Of the financial coudi-
ion 4 the country, although that is
some hing that cannot be corr, city
,dEsd at present.
TIE growers decided ihst the most
satisfactory rickers are Indians, aud
that they would make all sffort to Sc
cure them from Igdian communities in
Washington and Oregon. For instance,
YAKIMA, Wallis Wais. .Spe kane, Wasco,
Warm Springs, LspmaL aud other
places.
The opinion OF the growers in general
was that whites were Of very little
good in comparison" to Indians
To attract the Indians the growers
will give a grand barbecue ST the end
Of ;he season.
The condition Of thc crop at Buckley
east Of Puyallup, IS fine. Growers st
Osceols snd Enumc!aW sre spray ing
snd lots OF lice are reported, but the
vine is vigorous. Farmers are spraying
or trying 10 sYTsy, SIS the strike has
left them out of material Of which 10
compose the wash. We hear of no con
tracts being made. AT Kent the out
look for s heavy crop is not quite so
good IS il was s week ago; or rather
to put it sccRrately-everyone has
been too sanguine. Conditions have
not changed, but are just beginning
to lead to unexpected developments. II
hss been su extremely backward
spring. Rain in almost limitless
quantities created good deal Of un-
sasiness; but st length when the
heavens cleared away and "Old Sol"
poured down his fieTcest rays upon the
water soaked earth, and the vines be-
gan TO shoot out, It was felt tha; per-
haps after all the unfavoFableness Of
the spring might be overcome and that
8 good crop was yet assured.
Today, in this section, many Of the
yards hsye put on q sickly, yellowish
color which does not presage super
abundant crop. a number Of con
iicting theories have been advanced
As 10 The csuse Of this, p0t the most
plausible, IS the most common sense
theory is that the days have recently
been 50 hot aud the nights 50 cold that
the vines cannot stand the extremes
Of heat and cold and therefore turn
elbow