Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1914 — ONE KIND OF BARLEY [ARTICLE]

ONE KIND OF BARLEY

Ths Beaeflt of Establishing the Variety Beat-dkdapted to Soil and Climate.

The barley crop is grown for two chief purposes, namely, feeding and malting. For feeding, the grades and market price are based largely on the physical qualities of cleaness and soundness. For brewing purposes, however, the trade requires also uniformity of germination and endosperm reduction. Different varieties show marked differences in the rapidity and efficiency of germination and consequent decomposition ofthe starch endosperm. These properties depend very largely on the shape and size of the kernel. Two varieties may have the same malting ability in the end, that is, the power to produce the same quantities of digested starch to the pound of original matter, and yet be of much decreased value when mixed, due to the different times required for complete endosperm reduction and the necessity pf waiting for the slower .one.

If such is the case with different varieties having the same ultimate malting efficiency, how much more is it true where one of the varieties in a mixture has a low efficiency dfae to the undesirable shape of the kernels. Such admixture may result from individual carelessness on a single farm and yet the mixed seed contaminate the purer products of the entire community at the elevator. Only community action can insure safety.

It is very important to barley growers, therefore, to produce not only a good variety for the purpose intended, but also only a single variety in |a given locality in order that the community product may be pure and uniTram and thus be able to command the highest price paid. The extensive and almost exclusive growing of the fiderbrucker variety in Wisconsin by the members of the Wisconsin experimental association is an excellent illustration of organized co-operative effort in of a single profitable variety It • MMkcrop.