Show hois hops althe the journal of the california state agricultural society conta contains lies lifs the following 0 statement the hops of commerce are scarcely ever of first quality A single shower of rain which is very seldom escaped during curing curing time i is sufficient to destroy one fou fourth of th the b strength of the hops and greatly damage its flavor foi for this reason california is the land for hops cured where all the world know that rain never spoils polls california hops would command the markets of the world we behave have barley cheap enough and in places laces water soft and free from mineral witt with these three ingredients in can make ale and porter for export which would be noted for superiority all over the world sv orld orid 22 we have been long satisfied that this portion of the continent was superior to all others for hop raising the fine specimens of hops found in our kenyons demonstrate this our ales and porters should be of superior quality the very poor quality of these mild drinks heretofore manufactured here are no criterion to what might be done considerable improvement has been made recently and still there is room we do not wish to have the agreeable 0 and invigorating 0 0 properties of our mountain hops substituted by the mixture of nauseous barks and weeds |