. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. HOPS HOPS 383 the large, coarse leaves kept out and the clusters separated. The cost of picking averages about seventy-five cents per hundred pounds of green hops. Drying and haling. A hop-house or dry-house is a tight building with a large heater or furnace, fourteen to twenty feet above which is a slatted floor covered with open- meshed cloth. On this the hops are spread in a layer one to three feet deep, and kept at a temperature of 125° to 200° until su
. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. HOPS HOPS 383 the large, coarse leaves kept out and the clusters separated. The cost of picking averages about seventy-five cents per hundred pounds of green hops. Drying and haling. A hop-house or dry-house is a tight building with a large heater or furnace, fourteen to twenty feet above which is a slatted floor covered with open- meshed cloth. On this the hops are spread in a layer one to three feet deep, and kept at a temperature of 125° to 200° until sufficiently dry, a process that commonly requires about twelve hours. Ventilation is provided above for the removal of the mois- ture. During the early part of the process, sulfur is burned beneath the hops to bleach out the green shade and to bring them as nearly as may be to a straw-color. The sulfur also acts as a pre- servative. One pound of sul- fur will bleach one hundred pounds of green hops. The hops are occasionally turned in order that the drying may be uniform. The proper curing of hops requires con- siderable experience and good judgment. From the kilns the hops are removed to the cool- ing-room, where they are "; Then, by means of a hand press they are made up into hard, solid bales, about twenty inches square and five feet in length, which are sewed up in cloth, and which should weigh about one hundred and ninety pounds each. A box of hops should weigh thir- teen to eighteen pounds when ready to bale. Two thousand pounds of cured hops per acre may be considered a maximum crop, although half this is a satisfactory yield. black mold. It is nearly always present to some extent, and in hot, damp weather it may spread with amazing rapidity, turning the inner part of the hop to a black, moldy mass and ruining the crop. There is no remedy beyond planting yards in breezy, well-drained places, avoiding too much nitrogenous manure, and in harvesting the c
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