Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1917 — BARLEY NEXT TO CORN. [ARTICLE]

BARLEY NEXT TO CORN.

'NrtiMal Crw larMßMt S«ntte*.l Barley has a feeding value next to com. Indeed some feeders place It ahead of corn for pig food and at the present prices, barley will make as much and more profit than wheat. The wheat crop has now “gone to the jury.” We cannot do much more about wheat but we hare two or three weeks yet in order to put all of our acreage remaining into barley. / Barley is more profitable than oats. In fact, very few farmers make any money our of bats under .the best cir ? cumstanCes and very few barley farmers ../ever lose money on barley. There is always the fascination of get ting a fancy price for fancy barley, and although less than one per cent of all grains are used for malting purposes, the additional price which it gives to barley over oats always rngkes money for the farmers. While perhaps one per cent of the grain crop is used in brewing, the loss of feed value is much smaller because fully one half goes back to dairy farmers in the form of dried grains- and other ..by-products, which for feed purposes is among the best available.