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Hop warehouse of Pfister & Wüstl company, No. 305 in Prokopa Velkého Sq., Žatec, early 20 century
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2. Description

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It was passed as the Provenance Act No. 297/1921 Coll.
on 12 August 1921, and it was followed by a particular
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governmental regulation in 1922. The new legislation
introduced unified hop marking. The marking of hop
growing areas, which had only been optional before
then, was changed by this Act to the obligatory marking
of hop growing locations within the areas. The notions
of the district and region hop were removed, and the
category of "Hops from Žatec" was introduced.

The Czech Hop growing Society of the Czechoslovak
Republic, earlier with the addition "for the Czech
Kingdom," after a disagreement with the most
significant hop industry organiser, educator and
consultant Antonín Mohl (1859–1924) and his
resignation from all his posts, elected its new
executive in 1919 and started gathering suggestions
and opinions from the hop growers and make
proposals to act on them. The problems concerned
were defining the hop growing areas, a specialised
educational system, tariffs, and transit depots,
amongst others. The Czech Hop Purchase and
Sales Society founded in 1917, in Žatec, and its
partner organisation, the German Hop growing
Trade Company" (Die Deutsche Hopfenverkehrs-
Hop warehouse of Edmund Stern company, No. 1194 in Nerudovo Sq., Žatec, Gesellschaft), started to develop as well.
early 20 century
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