Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1917 — BARLEY VS. WHEAT. [ARTICLE]

BARLEY VS. WHEAT.

[National Crop Improvement Service.] Barley at 60c per bushel will profitably compete with wheat at SI.OO. Were it not for the sustaining influence of the high prices for malting barley, it would compete with oats, but as it is the crop of barley for 19J 5 brought $122,500,000.00. The price of barley i? now $1.20 to $1.50 per bushel, but taking $l3O as a basis, the 1916 crop of 180,000,000 bushels, would bring $234,000,000. Yields of 40 to 50 bushels of barley per acre are not uncommon and as just a feed value this means a handsome return to the grower. But in addition to this, there is always the incentive of raising a good crop of superior barley that can be sold fdr malting purposes, at advanced prices, and a good yield of malting barley will hold its own with any other erpp.