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Excerpt from Hop Culture in the United States: Being a Practical Treatise on Hop Growing in Washington Territory, From the Cutting to the Bale
The writer first engaged in the business two years later, planting a couple of acres, and raised the first year a few hundred pounds; The yard has gradually been enlarged, until his crop-yield of 1882, was more than seventy-one tons, giving the Puyallup valley the banner crop, as to quantity, of any in the United States, and as claimed by some, in the world.
A short description of the soil, climate, resources and location of this now famous region, will doubtless be interesting to non resident readers. It is a region underlaid with coal, and is to the Pacific coast, what Pennsylvania is to the Atlantic seaboard.
Words cannot convey an adequate idea of the immensity of the timber supply or of its value. Lime and iron are found in abundant quantities and in convenient localities. Fish abound in the waters of Puget sound and the numerous rivers emptying into it. Game is abundant and affords rare sport for the hunters; coupled with. This is the equable climate, never excessively cold in winter, or hot in summer and always healthful.
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The writer first engaged in the business two years later, planting a couple of acres, and raised the first year a few hundred pounds; The yard has gradually been enlarged, until his crop-yield of 1882, was more than seventy-one tons, giving the Puyallup valley the banner crop, as to quantity, of any in the United States, and as claimed by some, in the world.
A short description of the soil, climate, resources and location of this now famous region, will doubtless be interesting to non resident readers. It is a region underlaid with coal, and is to the Pacific coast, what Pennsylvania is to the Atlantic seaboard.
Words cannot convey an adequate idea of the immensity of the timber supply or of its value. Lime and iron are found in abundant quantities and in convenient localities. Fish abound in the waters of Puget sound and the numerous rivers emptying into it. Game is abundant and affords rare sport for the hunters; coupled with. This is the equable climate, never excessively cold in winter, or hot in summer and always healthful.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Ezra Meeker
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780260498991
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.0 cm
Page Count - 182
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Contributors
Author
Ezra Meeker
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ISBN - 9781331733850
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.0 cm
Page Count - 184
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