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Show Barley Pays Better Than ' Wheat. There was a time In our valley when H the farmers raised wheat and oats al-' 3T H most entirely and depended on out- H side markets to buy up their product. Of late years since the sugar factories H became established in our valley a H good percentage of the land Is utilized H for the raising of beets, and to good jH advantage, as usually the beets are a IH profitable crop. A large percentage H of the wheat that Is now grown in this M valley seeks a market with the shipper H and Is depending on them for the H prices. Wheat this year has brought M from 70 to 80 cents per bushel, accord- H lng to the time when sold and the ' M quality of wheat received, and these H prices are quite satisfactory to the farmer. This year there has been H quite a demand for barley, so much so IH that those raising barley have had no M difficulty in finding market for It H whenever they desire to sell it. Ac- cording to information received from U a firm here using considerable, namely, t M TlIK COLLKOK l'UUK FOOD COMl'ANV, jH a farmer can obtain more per acre M raising barley than he can raising H wheat, and it is well known that bar M ley Is an easy crop to raise, cither on H dry or Irrigated land. This company H bought a twenty-acre grain crop from M a farmer In the southern part of the H valley, half was barley and half wheat, jH raised on a dry farm. For the wheat H ho received 77 cents per bushel and M the barley 00 cents per hundred. For M tho barley ho received per acre $25.10, M whllo tho wheat at 77 cents, which Is M considered a good price, lie received M but $10.35 per acre. Tho land was the iM samo kind, I) lng side by side, and in M every respect both grains received tho M same kind of attention. This would i Indicate that tho farmers may well M consider tho advisability of planting M barley now when there seems to be a M market for all that will be for sale. 'H It Is uncertain that wheat at any bar- .H vest time will bring the price that It H did this season, whllo barley can al- ,M ways be marketed in the future, and ' H soldom is It oversold for less than 80 H cents and oftlmes it brings a better , H price than that. )H |