Prices of hops Stock of new and Quantity of at a medium[22], old hops in the hops equal to per cwt. whole kingdom, as many weeks after the harvest. consumption. 30 Shill. 130000 bags, 70 35 125000 65 40 120000 61 45 115000 57 50 110000 53 55 105000 47 60 100000 44 70 95000 40 80 90000 36 90 85000 32 100 80000 28 110 75000 24 120 75000 20 130 70000 16 140 67000 12 150 65000 8 160 62000 4 170 60000 180 57000 190 55000 200 52000 This chapter should not be dismissed without reminding the brewery, of the gross imposition they submit to in purchasing hops. The tare which justice requires to be allowed in the sale of all packed merchandize, by the hop-factors is refused, who exact payment for the bagging, at the same price as for the commodity itself. If the consumption of hops, in England, is yearly 172,268 cwt. and these be packed one half in bags and the other half in pockets, taking the mean price of hops to be 3l. 14s. per cwt. in this case the consumers are defrauded at least of 39,834l. per annum; that, on a just regulation of this matter, the commodity itself would rise in price, there is not the least foundation for. The present practice of monopolizing hops, by much too frequent, is a farther reason to induce the brewery to exert the influence they ought to have with superior power, to obtain a right so justly due to them. SECTION V. _OF THE LENGTHS NECESSARY TO FORM MALT-LIQUORS OF THE SEVERAL DENOMINATIONS._ By length, in the brewery, is understood the quantity of drink made from one quarter of malt. Beers and ales differ in this respect; and the particular strength allowed to every sort of drink, varies also somewhat, according to the prices of the materials. This increase or abatement is, however, never such as to make the profits certain or uniform; for the value of the grain being sometimes double of what it is at other times, a proportionable diminution in strength, can by no means take place.