Show 4 00 the corn borer is coming comingo remarked mar ed the faculty of the wi wisconsin scan university unk ank EO nir fur science has bas been unable to check its onward w a rd march 0 of f destruction ond and damage in the corn rn belt the seriousness piousness lious ious ness of this situation cannot be appreciated by the lay laymen nien nevertheless thess the madlie west fai meris casting about for a substitute crap crop wisconsin and many other states are turning to barley as the most available substitute during thelast uie past several eurs curs extensive feed tests have been made of barley versus corn the results of which havel little difference although alth it t is notices noticeable ble that in recent years the purple ribbon winners in the beef classes at this chicago international were A fattened oa barley diet anti and incidentally california won the classic twice in five years with barley PS the basic feed Autho ritus claim that barley arley makes about the some same gain ratio as corn a moie more equal distribution of f flesh with good marbling marbline furte err armore hare old eld time feeders claim that the chemical Mil licUP of barley inake it a safer decd for the novice becat because use over feeding is less injurious than corn and that barley barle v fed animals show less fat highly desirable these days especially with hogs horsby by reason of the dec decreased demand for lard due to vegetable substitutes produced as much less pst the corn belt farmers are felling the effort of this condition aillo amA Jasse had to cut Wel weighton weight gitto of f 6 cheit er ta the corn mark marketing margetin etin P a as I 1 X of this read recognition f eney is B dt of trade conditions anyhow out west and in the southwest barley barle y has been narim in pro providing providen g food for human anti and animal alx lx existence istance much to do with jn in fact it has had bad settling up the west and west the same thing ma may y be said as ag to the world generally for barley is as old as s civilization and it is one of the basic b asic crops brought resisting tin g and as t certain as poss possible ble harley has brought millions of acres af 0 almi 1 mi arid land into profitable e still be otherwise would pe use that harron true the yield pir acre is nat big neither is the cost of production high I 1 but ut the average is i s fa good od cordry for dry farming about one percent of the land area of california is s raising barley and pays 27 to the grower or 1312 13 12 1 2 poper po O per acre land and california per cent on 1 a receives about por v a iti barley crop and stands first in the united states in production but i is s california getting the best results out of its barley our foreign outlet for the ba barley i aly crop is the Eurol european ienn ni malting alting industry upon which we place a great dealoe deal of dependence anti and reliance cant california the he west and southwest find finda a more holy union than between barley baralt y and beer apparently the greatest economic use of barley couig bt be to convert it into beef pork and mutton thus thug adding another string to our marketing markeli rig bow and one when de launched and developed will bring bong economic gaier to this great southwest Sout ewest empire california is sending east of the rocky Mouri mountain tain every year about the fhe total proceeds of our barley sale in exchange for pork from the middle western farmers why not begin now to developed dev elope a live stock industry in the west and southwest that will not only consume the barley production of thab section but enable an extensive expansion of the crop and incidentally bring into production a great deal more or our lards lands that anda today are not pay dg taxes takes the west coast cities will readily consume all the boak that L may be produced in tho the gestand west and southwest for many to come and wo we also need an all year round supply of beef anti and mutton which can only be furnished WL A Is it the theeart part of m to continue to p put tit all our eggs in the gorman german and english malting basket taking our chance of successfully competing with nearly ever every y agricultural nation 0 on n earth and aad with lower priced land and labor be better to export our pork if we have a surplus us manifestly pork commands much broader marketing mare eting possibilities than barley it is reasonable to as sume th arthe day will come when egypt russia or some other great barley producing country will haven have a surplus sufficient to wipe out our export margin margin A few acres of barley and a few ares acres of alfalfa with a few head of live stock provide a most niest useful diversification anti and an ence enc e not enjoyed by the specialist and one crop farmer the building up of a home borne market will stabilize the whole barley production and marketing situation in the west |