HOPS FOR NEW ZEALAND.
The last experiment in competition is the approaching introduction of hop culture into New Zealand. It is said that as one solution of the conflict between the agricultural labourers and their employers in Kent, the AgentGeneral for New Zealand has provided passages for some three thousand of them to that colony. As these labourers are mostly hop-pickers or men practised in the cultivation of that valuable plant, part of the scheme is to send with them a quantity of hop seed and cuttings. It lias long been said that the climate of New Zealand is very similar to our own at home. But it is not less variable ; and climate influences have a good deal to say to the success or failure of the hop harvests. The hop "bine" varies extraordinarily in its value from year to year ; it is easily affected and damaged by insects, continued rains or thunderstorms, so that the average of good crops is only one in five years. Even if the plant will grow well in New Zealand, the processes of drying it and preparing it for market are so very intricate arid varied that those who embark in this new agricultural operation will find many difficulties to surmount before they me ke it a commercial success.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 656, 21 March 1879, Page 2
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216HOPS FOR NEW ZEALAND. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 656, 21 March 1879, Page 2
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