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Show U.S.D.A. Has 4,000 Straing Of Barley in Collection A collection of about 4,000 established estab-lished varieties and strains of bar-leys bar-leys from all over the world is main-tained main-tained by the U. S. department oi agriculture to facilitate the breeding breed-ing of better barleys for different parts of the country. The only larger larg-er collection is reported In Russia. Typical of the work of government cereal specialists and barley breeders breed-ers Is the experiment now going on to develop new varieties of barley resistant to the green bug or aphid, which in 1942 caused a loss of more than $3,000,000 In Texas and Oklahoma Okla-homa barley fields. |