. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. 382 HOPS HOPS yard is usually shallow-plowed in the early spring with a small one-horse plow, and after that is kept clean until midsummer by surface cultivation. Various types of cultivators are used. As the sea- son progresses, the earth around the plant is gradu- ally _ridged or mounded up into well-marked hills. Some growers assert that high hills aid in overcoming the damage from the hop grub. At any rate,_ high hills are a protection to the crowns in
. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. 382 HOPS HOPS yard is usually shallow-plowed in the early spring with a small one-horse plow, and after that is kept clean until midsummer by surface cultivation. Various types of cultivators are used. As the sea- son progresses, the earth around the plant is gradu- ally _ridged or mounded up into well-marked hills. Some growers assert that high hills aid in overcoming the damage from the hop grub. At any rate,_ high hills are a protection to the crowns in the winter. There is considerable variation in cultural method, but the best growers agree that it should be thorough and continued as late as pos- sible. A new yard should not be neglected the first year, but given the same care as later. Training.— One of the most important steps in hop-growing is the training. There has been an evolution of methods of training. A generation &go, when poles were plenty and cheap, the com- mon method was to have two good poles to each hill and use no twine. A system of stakes about seven feet high, with twine strung from one to the other horizontally across the yard in both direc- tions, was also extensively adopted. In the West is employed a method of running twine directly from the hills to heavy overhead wires carried on strong poles or masts, the so-called "trellis" system. A system of setting one tall pole to each hill, and then running two strands of twine from a point about iive feet from the ground to the top of neighboring poles, has been rather generally adopted in the East. This is known as the "umbrella" system. Poles are preferably of cedar and should be twenty to twenty-four feet long. They cost about. 575. A hop-yard. New York. fifteen cents each delivered. They are set in the ground in holes about two feet deep, which are punched with a special form of bar. It is important that this setting be well don
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