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Show THBFiiTFIIFri Beer Famine Faces the County Growers in Controversy. Chicago, July 10. Hop growers on tho Pacific coast have threatened to ceaso planting the vino so essential to the manufacture of beer if transcontinental trans-continental freight rates on hops are not reduced. The fear of a scarcity of the domestic do-mestic product best known in its liquid form of amber tint was imparted im-parted to Chairman Charles A. Proutv, of the Interstate Commerce commission, commis-sion, today by tho general freight agent of tho Northern Pacific railroad, rail-road, who said that the growers of hops had protested In a body at tho transcontinental freight convention and had threatened to discontinue tho cultivation of hops If tho rates woro not lowered. The prosent ralo on hops from Pacific Pa-cific coast points to the eastern brewing markets is $1 75 a hundred In carload lots and $2 2G In smaller loads. The rates are declared to be much too high. The Association of Hop Growers complained to tho Interstate Inter-state Commerce commission after their plea was refused by the railroads rail-roads They asserted that their profits pro-fits on the product is ?o small that the freight ratos are killing the in-dustrw in-dustrw Tho Pacific growers raise the principal prin-cipal supply of hops grown in this country. |