The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-23
METHODS OF BREWING
Report of Advisory Com mittee of U. s. Brewers
 Association

 tee of the United States Brewers as- sociation is devoted largely to the hearings before the Board of Food and Drug Inspection at Washington, and the report reproduces the brief of the committee answering the questions IS to methods of brewing and ingredi- ents. The committee says:
 '"The committee submitted a brief in answer to the questions of the Board of Food and Drug Inspection, which has Teen sent to our members and is made part of this report. The facts therein set forth regarding brew ing ingredients and methods speak for themselves; and the efforts of our op- ponents to make capital out of the discussion of the beer question have fallen flat. The brewing trade well comes wide publicity in regard to its product, and courts public inspection and supervision"
 The committee reports having taken up the question of trademarks and the rules of the federal food and drugs act, and says the brewers have all shown a ready disposition to ob- serve the law in the matter of their labels, but some of their advertise ments may be open to criticism. While saying that the act may not. specif- cally include advertisements, the com- mittee recommends that to observe the spirit of the law to save the people from deception the brewers scrutinize their advertising copy closely to pre- vent any possible misrepresentation Of their product.
 In reviewing the barley and hops crop situation, the committee reports in part as follows:
 'The committee has been endeavor- ing to secure reliable first hand infor- mation in regard to the production of barley, so that our members may be fully informed of the supply. A pre- liminary crop report has been issued, which will be supplemented by later information from time to time. It Is proposed to extend this service for the special benefit of our members. Your attention is called to the fact that for a number of years the produc- tion of barley and hops has been al- most stationary, while the beer sales have steadily increased. All pos- sible encouragement should be given to scientific farmers who devote their en- ergy and their money to the produc- tion of good crops according to up- to-date methods. The testimony of the barley growers who appeared at the recent beer hearing in Washington was, however, a revelation of ignor- ance and incapacity. The questions which were put to them by the Secre- tary of Agriculture stumped them completely. Apparently they did not know what kind of barley they were raising or ought to raise, or how much they got per acre, or how often they raised barley in successive years on the same soil. If these farmers were as Mr. Mauff claimed, the representa- tive barley growers of the best barley states, the barley business must be in sorry plight.
 .'In this connection mention should be made of the special barley com mittee, consisting of Messrs. B. A. Faust, l.. B. Schram and G. w. Lem beck, which has been appointed to CO., operate with the crop improvement committee of the various grain ex- changes and boards of trade. Under the direction of MT. Bert Ball, this crop improvement committee is ar ranging to send demonstration cars into the barley districts with experts from the agricultural experiment sta- tions to help barley farmers in getting better results, by the application Of the best methods of soil treatment, etc. The board of trustees of the United States Brewers association has ap- propriated $3,000 for the furtherance of this work.
 "The hop situation is also serious in view of the exhaustion of reserve stocks here, and abroad, and the short age in the foreign crops. The Ameri- can crop, which has just been har- vested, is ample for our home require ments, but does not leave much sur varies from year to year, according to the condition of the European crops but under any circumstances, we may expect to ship at least thirty to for ty thousand bales year to Great Britain. The average annual increase in the beer production of the United States calls for an additional supply of oh fo, ho1 nf hnnC each year. The stagnation in hop growing is due to an increase in the value of good hop lands, increase in labor cost, and especially to the fact that the average prices of the past five years have not made hop grow ing particularly attractive. The de- velopment of the dairy business in Central New York State, and of the fruit business in the State of Wash ingtOn, has increased the value of land in certain districts to a point where hop growing becomes unproitable, or to put it more explicitly, the farmer in the grazing districts of Central New he can out of hops. while the farmer in Yakima, for instance, can make more out of fruit than he can out of hops. The hop production has stead ily decreased in New York State and Washington, and it has increased very SlOWly, IT at all, III oregon ana Cal ifornia. The leading hop growers complain of the fact that many brew CTS will not pay sufficient prem ium to warrant them in specializing in the finest varieties, and that the practice of contracting ahead, instead of buying by sample, puts the high class grower at a disadvantage. It is hoped that the prizes for hops and barley which have been offered by the ]! United States Brewers association and 1 others at the International Brewers Congress will serve to stimulate the l production of hops and barley
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