. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. HOPS HOPS 381 extensively on rich alluvial creek-bottoms and on poor sandstone hills. A rich sandy loam that is moist, but not wet, is preferable. The commercial value of the cured hop depends very largely on its color, a bright straw-color being the ideal, and this will not be secured on soils in which nitrogen is too abundant. A slight elevation, protected from north and nort
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. HOPS HOPS 381 extensively on rich alluvial creek-bottoms and on poor sandstone hills. A rich sandy loam that is moist, but not wet, is preferable. The commercial value of the cured hop depends very largely on its color, a bright straw-color being the ideal, and this will not be secured on soils in which nitrogen is too abundant. A slight elevation, protected from north and northwest winds, and sloping toward the east or southeast, is preferable. Manures.—In starting a hop-yard in the East a liberal dressing of twelve to twenty tons of farm manure per acre is frequently applied. After the crop is established, the general method of manuring is by applying a good-sized forkful of stable manure on the crown of the plant in the fall, thus serving the two-fold purpose of fertilizing and a protective mulch. In the spring it is worked into the soil about the hill. Sometimes manure is used between the rows with good results. The large amount of nitrogen in farm manure has sometimes caused excessive leaf-growth and a green, undesirable hop. This has led some of the best growers to alternate the manure with applications of commercial fertil- izers, especially those containing a large percent- age of potash, as wood-ashes. So far as quality is concerned, it is wisest to depend at least partially on commercial manures. Good quality has been secured from broadcasting one ton per acre of wood-ashes in the fall, and applying 500 pounds of ground bone at the first hoeing in the spring. The largest yields, however, seem to follow the applica- tion of the manure to the hills in the fall, assisted by an application of commercial fertilizer at the first hoeing in the spring. Possibly the highest yield per acre and the best market quality are not compatible. In the rich
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