Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1912 — EXTRA HEADS ON STALKS [ARTICLE]

EXTRA HEADS ON STALKS

Government Becomes Interested In Grain and Orders an Inspection of Method. Chico, Cal. —Barley and oat-growing experiments by G. W. Overton of Chico have developed grains that may be adopted -throughout the United States. The experiments are considered so remarkable that the government has ordered an inspection of his process with a view of establishing his methods throughout the country. The feature of the new barley is that from two to five heads grow on each stalk, the principal head ripening first and becoming easily twice as large as the others, which are of normal size. The combined heads are about nine inches long, while the stalk is tough and about as large as an ordinary lead pencil, standing against a heavy wind. His tame oats has an average of 'three heads to the stalk.