Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-27 | Page 10 | Oregon Hop Crop

OREGON HOP CROP. Indications Are That It Will Fall 15.000 Balea Short PORTLAND. Or July C Indications are that the Oregon hop crop will amount to about .0X) bales or In the n Ighbor-hood Ighbor-hood of 1G.(X ba! less than last year. Tho season has been unfavorable, tho long dry spvill which occurred last month very nearly causing a failure, iho quality qual-ity of the hops Is exceptionally good, however, how-ever, and there has been such an absence ab-sence of lice owing to the warm weather that many growers have found little or no necessity for spraying. Good pric3 seem to be aroused, several growers reporting re-porting offers by the brokers to contract at 20 cents.