Square Circle Press Llc The hop farmer's year: the seasons, tools and methods of hop growers in new york state's golden age of hops, paperback/albert c. bullard

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In the 19th century, New York State experienced a Golden Age of hop growing.

During that time, The Empire State was an agricultural powerhouse that produced almost 90% of the hop crop of the United States.

But the dominance of this market, which lasted for nearly six decades, was achieved by vast numbers of small, independent hop growers, for whom hops were only a part of their overall agricultural production.

How did they do this? What were the methods and tools they used? And what were th.