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Name and location of repository
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Item
Title
D10193-7
Date(s)
- 1940-08-21 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
By August of 1940 Nick Perfield's fields near Buckley were among the last in western Washington still growing hops. Lush hop fields, with their distinctively shaped hop kilns, once covered the Puyallup Valley. Weather, insects, fluctuating prices and downy mildew from Canada had made hop farming a losing proposition. By 1956 there were only three remaining hop growers in the area with a combined acreage of just 150 acres. [Also dated 9-3-1940.]
Hops--Buckley--1940-1950; Farming--Buckley--1940-1950; Perfield, Nick--Homes & haunts;