Increased Sobriety?

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 April 1910, Page 1

Increased Sobriety?

OR MORE CHEMICALS?

The shrinkage i'U hop cultivation is shown by tables given in the "Agricultural Statistics," recently issued by the British Board of Agriculture- and Fisheries. During the Last tlireo years, excepting m Austria and Hungary, thero has been a general tendency to reduce the area under hops throughout the world. The shrinkage is most marked in Germany and in England, whore it has been continuous for several years past. Tn 1900, the acreage- under hops in England was 40,722 acres; in 1907 it fell to 44,938, in 1908 to 38.921, and last yeflr it was only 32,539 acres. At this rate, the hop cultivation in England will snon he a thiing of the past. In Germany, taking the fnur years. 190(5-9, the decrease was from 95,987 .acres to 71.553; in tho United States it fell from 55.822, in 1907, to 50,020 m 1908, and last yen r, in Oregom, it fell to 17,000. as compared with 22,000_aeres iii 1908. Temperance folk will see in tin's fact another proof that tho world becomes more sober .as year follows year, but certain sceptics and scoffers will retort that it marks merolv the substitution of chemicals to do part of the work that onco was done solely by the use of hops.