The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-02-25
COAST HOPS BEST
in WORLD
LEAD EVEN BOHEMIAN IN QUAIL.
ITY, THOUGH LESS WELL
KNOWN.
English Company Urges Growers on
Pacific Slope to Bring the High
Quality of Their Product to the At
tention Of Worlds Largest Buyers
by Publicity Program.

Seattle, Feb. 19.-Pointing out tina
Pacific coast hops are equal to or evel
superior in many respects to the bes
Bohemian hops, but that the coast pre-
duct does not command the prices the.
should, E. C. Horst Company, of Lon
don, hop growers and buyers, hav'
sent letters to hop growers on tn
Coast urging them to take united az
ton to bring the high quality of Coas
hops to the attention of buyers in al
parts of the world. This firm state
that some action of the kind recon-
mended is necess airy in view of To
fact that England may soon put dug
on hops, making it harder for te
Americans to market the surplus d.
less they can show their hops hae
some advantage over the hops frd
other countries. The letter follows
"The Coast hops of the crops of 1901
1906, 1907 and 1908 brought on an al
erage 8 cents higher prices on tn
English market than did the Englia
hops, but for the 1909 crop conditioS
are reversed, and Coast hops sell !
an average cents per pound less thu
the English. This makes differene
of 8 cents per pound as against te
Coast grower, which differences coui,
| in large measure, have been avoid
if the Coast growers co-operated ira
campaign of advertising the acttl
merits of the Coast hops.
eff hop prices were to stay for IT,
ture seasons where they are now, he
Coast hop growers would not needo
care further about prices, but the Bh
prices make the low ones, and Fe
have to prepare now to hold our DIN
when low prices return. In the rednt
siege of low prices the German I'D
Austrian hop growers increased be
production fully so per cent. DUNG
the same period that the Coast grfv-
ers decreased their production DER
| dAu, SOdSI 61OWH .
were blowing up their yards our b.
portations heavily increased, and be
importations were made at prices tt4t
would have kept the Coast growers
the business, and at profit. The b
average of Germany and ustriaE 4
today much higher than it ever Wis,
and the growers get 40 to so GETS
per pound for their hops. The fir.
eign hops owe their high prices to d
operation among the growers in caul
| ing their product to be well writtel
up and we'll advertised.
1.-THE reason Coast hops do not a
all times sell in the markets of tn
world at higher prices than other hop
| is that the growers take no interes
| in the matter thems elves, and the,
leave the making or breaking of tn,
reputation of Coast hops to the deal
ers, who, after all, care only for thei
own profit, regardless of the grower
and if the dealers can make NOR
profit in selling other hops, they nat
urally do not boom the Pacifics. II
fact, most Coast hops that are bough
by brewers in America are sold b,
dealers who sell foreign hops, which
they work on 5 cents and sometime
8 cents per pound profit, and Will,
they cannot make over cents on tn,
Coast hops, naturally they do all the,
can to sell the foreign hops in gu
home market.
"Of course, hop prices vary will
the extent of the crops grown in tn,
respective countries, but as the brew
ing value of hops does not depend
upon how many are grown in the var
ious countries, the Coast growers
ought to work together to put before
the brewers of the world at first han(
the merit of the Coast hops, and wher
Coast hops sell on their merits, the,
will always sell at an average higher
than any other hops.
"The principal brewing value O
hops, as claimed by the brewers them
selves, is the soft resin of the hop
and in these the Pacific coast hop.
hold the worlds record, some of tn.
Coast hops being richer therein thar
even the world-famed Bohemian hops
But the Bohemian hop growers, by di
rect and judicious advertising amons
the brewers, have established repu
tatlon that can be shaken by the Coas
growers, but only by the Coast grow
ers persistently putting before thu
brewers the facts pertaining to thu
excellent brewing value of the bes
Coast hops.
"Such campaign by Coast grower!
will need the cooperation of the grow
ers. 1t will involve only trifing ex
pense for obtaining analyses iron
high-class brewers chemists of bes
Coast hops, in comparison with bes
Bohemian, Bavarian, English and New
York state hops, and the publication
of the results in pamphlet form ant
distributing the same periodically t.
the 1000 important brewers of thu
world. The cooperation of the grow