The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-07-03
HOP ACREAGE
IS INCREASING
But Exact Figures Regarding the
Pacific Coast Situation Are
Hard to Ascertain
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ARE
PRODUCING LESS YEARLY
And American Growers Are Find
ing an Increased Demand for
Export and Better Figures the
Past Three Years

Whether there have been increased
hop paintings on the Pacific coast, ia
ken as a whole lis matter that the
authorities have as yet been unable to
ascertain to their own satisfaction
There has, as is well known, been
some increased acreage in the Yaki-
ma valley but there is no belief that
this means, necessarily, an increased
production for the old acreage will
not bear so heavily as it did last year
and the new acreage will not bear
heavily this year The following from
the department of agriculture al
Washington is the latest obtainable
information on the subject:
Increasing the Acreage
Following the great world scarcity
of hops as a result of the unusually
small foreign crop in 1911, the hop
growers of the Pacific coast have
shown tendency to greatly increase
the acreage devoted to hop produc-
ton. Whether this actually has re-
suited in increased planting is as yet
uncertain the estimates placing the
additional area devoted to hop grow
Ing in Washington, Oregon and Cali
fornia at anywhere from $500 to 49,
900 acres. The latter figure is likely
too large. Two correspondents of the
Department of Agriculture place the
increase at about the former figure
while press reports give the higher
figure. 1t is said that a large num-
Der of people on the Pacific coast who
planned to plant hops this year did
NO do ,f Il; rfl,
of roots and the difficulty of obtain.
ing wire, poles and other supplies.
Area Under Cultivation
According to the United States
census, the area planted to hops If
New York state was aT,532 acres ir
1899 and 1903 acres in 1909. Ii
Washington the figures for the same
lyears We're 5,296 and 2,433, respec.
| lively. In Oregon the acreage increas.
ed from 15,433 in 1899 to 21,770 In
1909, and in California from $3.50 tC
1891 in the same period. In Austria.
| Hungary the area devoted to hof
raising has fallen from $500 acres
in 1908 to 51,919 acres in 1911; ii
Germany it dropped from $3.50
acres to 65,S45 acres in the same time
and in England from 3S,921 acres t.
| 33,056 acres. The yield per acre ha.
also declined in those countries.
Increased Foreign Demand
American growers of hops are find.
| ing an increasing foreign demand, the
exports for the past three calendar
years having been as follows
1909-S,95 1888 pounds; value, ST..
$4,000; average per pound, Ice,
+ 1910-12,T4S,617 pounds; value $2,.
306,796; average per pound, 1Sc.
| 1911A14.104,4O4 pounds; value $4,.
T25S,431; average per pound, 39c.
True, back IN 1907 the exports wer,
| 16,090,95O pounds, but they realized
only s2,s62,S45, or II cents per pound
and exports in 1908 were 21,432,S6!
pounds, valued at s2,455,410, or II
cents per pound. The Americai
Brewers Review of June 1, 1912
gives the following recent quotation.
at Chicago: New York hops, 80 to a,
cents Oregon, 40 to As cents; Cali
| fornia, 3S to Al cents; Bohemian, 81
to 80 cents. The American hop quo
tations in cents given in the New
York Journal of Commerce for June
13, 1912, were as follows: States
1911, 80 to As; Pacific, 1911, 40 to A