Show BARLEY AS DRY FAR FARM CROP I 1 success in western states during the past few years has attracted much attention my liy 11 13 agronomist in charge of barley investigations U V B S department of agriculture barley has benera not been cort coo a dry land crop but its success in the western states during the past few years has haa attracted attention to its possibilities for or that purpose in tho the northern great plains and rocky mountain states where corn Is an uncertain crop barley will furnish an excellent feed tor for all kinds of farna farm mals this fact has already given tin in impetus to the growing of live stock especially hogs throughout the horth northwest west in the rocky mountain und pacific coast states hooded or le beardless ardless barley has long been boen grown tor for hay of which it furnishes an excellent and highly palatable crop nearly equal to alfalfa in feeding value in utah eastern pa stern 61 colorado orado mk lahoma and tex ei 1 imers are be beginning nning to realize the advantages of jinter inter barley over spring sown gown barley barle as a grain crop winter balloy belim beh fall sown ham haa the advantage of i early start in the spring and i will produce a crop where own barley may fall at t re are but two forma of winter b oy Y grown in the west the square boa onn essee winter find and the roundhead round head tah winter inter the A a agi bons bureau of f plant in us t r apartment of agriculture ri ha deve ped ed a number of othor other winter form which were dis tributes trl tri buted in 1911 ar a results will be watched with inter entert Int ert no single varlet variety either spring or winter seems to g adapted to the entire semiarid semi arid arld r alon fon among the winter forms forma T tennesee Ten jesee asee winter a beaded six rowed ley has haa so eo far glyen given has re I 1 d Han hannchen a beaded tw two rowed owed 0 BK barley leads lead 0 tn in yield in the da dakill among th the a six elx rowed spring aps s manchuria and odes iare are the best among the hulleza cleties himalaya guy maylo mayle black blac holless hul less and nepal white holless hulle hul less sg give the best results with athe sandland very alkaline land barley can b be a grown on a variety of soils but the beat results are generally secured on the prairie palito or alluvial loam soils barley Is a more certain crop on alkaline soils than Is either wheat or oats the crop requires a mellow seed bed it if the land Is plowed it should be immediately harr harrowed harrower owea to conserve the moisture K IT many benze beke suits aie are obtained hen the land Is fall fail plowed andI and left eft ough bugh until spring and then disked an and qt harrowed where there Is a tender tendency c to blo blowing w ing of the soil roll granular soil I 1 preferable to the dust mulch general y advised the yield and qu lity of barley are considerably fil fluen ed bythe by the kind of seed sown own T the d should be thoroughly cled clea ing large seed will produce strong plan i in the struggle for existent ways follows sped seed ing dry lani lan hlll III be more likely to survive 11 plants produced from small an n seeds the fann should be found on ovary every fari far hen not available a simple vet highl effective method for cleaning and bading g adang the seed Is to to imm immerse arse it in a tub of water and stir thoroughly all AH the light chaffy and dise diseased aked gratis grall a as well as the larger p poi tion of v N hd oats and other weed see s will to the surface and can be skimped off and burned it the 8 sec 1 I was sTrat STO bitted ted adding form olin at the ie rate 0 or one pound to 40 gallons water III hi be found effective I 1 in ito further propagation I 1 |