The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-03-13
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

DuFfty STop.
Barley is now one of the most impor-
tant crops grown, and rightly cultiva-
ted, the most profitable of the cereals.
The price OF barley varies greatly some
times, now exceeding corn and wheat,
but rarely going below fairly paying
rate. For some reason two-rowed bar
ley is most popular with growers lille
four or six rowed is In favor with malt
sters and brewers. The advantages of
twe-rowsd are that it is heavier berry
and surer crop. Except on very rich,
dry land, well MANFRED, two-rowed
yields more per acre. 1t is also little
later in ripening. SO that its gathering
i'll does not interfere with the wheat
harvest. Many farmers SOW two -rowed
exclusively on this account. The dis
advantages of the two-rowed is that it is
always ten to fifteen cents lower In
price, and when there Is glute in the
barley market, as sometimes happens,
the less desirable quality is almost un-
salable. In seasons like the last
and present, less difference is made. and
either kind IS in demand at remunera-
tive prices. The two rowed barley,
ripening nearly with oats, is more apt
to be mixed with that grain, still farther
damaging its sale in unfavorable
seasons. If oats gets mixed with six
rowed barley seed, they are generally
unripeat harvest, and the light unripe
oats will blow out with careful winnow-
ing. All kinds OF barley perfect their
crop IN q very short season. Men have
bought seed, sowu, harvested and
sold the crop in time to pay ninety
day note for the seed purchase money
The six-rowed barley for the past
season was harvested and in the
barn in ten weeks after sowing
though the threshing was de-
layed till nearly Il month later
More attention should be given to the
more delicate, but also more profitable
slx-rowed varieties of barley. A Cana
dian kind-the Bay Quinte- brings the
highest price; but attempts to grow
it this side the lake have almost always
proved failures. The common variety
of six-rowed viii, however, succeed well
on all good barley soil; but if the land
be any way deficient, SOW two-rowed
barley. Six-rowed barley is apt to
grow weak and the straw to .'crinkle"
and die, leaving he grSan shfuiik en- and
light. This is especially the fact with
late sown GrAln or on poor soil. Two
rQwed grows stronger and the straw is
lleavier. Possibly one reason for this
is the fact that twe-rowed barley is a
heavier barley.
It's fact that good crop OF. six
rowed win yield larger amount, both
in bushels and money, than good crop
Of the four7rowed Where everything
Is just right SOIL season, and temper
ature.-six owed barley has been known
to produce enormous crops. One fine
field of twenty-eight acres, five years
ago, produced fourteen hundred BUSH
els of clean, good barley-an average of
,--e--.,rl g.. aa5~r---L--a-~l.- ~
heve the importance of clean, good seed
Issnowhere SO evident as In barley grow
ing. "Tne best is pre-eminently the
cheapest here. Barley with oats should
never be used for seed Brewers never
like to buy oats for barley, and in sea-
sons of plenty uaclean barley is unsala-
hle. Entire freedoms from oats in any
year Insures Ii and often 20 cents. per
buslrel more for the crop A shrewd
farmer, who last spring bought pure six
eaFeWed barley at two dollars per
hushel asserts that it paid him
better than to accept % oatv"
barley as a gift The difference in
- price OF the crop viii more than repay
the cost of high-priced seed. The
Western Rural adds: On any good
wheat land there is no doubt that bar.
= ley, ON carefully prepared land, will
pay we'll. The crop is. however, some
what more troublesome to harvest than
wheat, and care must be taken that it
does not become weather beaten after
being cut. else it W II be seriously de-
preciated in price. Prepare by plow-
ing the ground fresh in the spring; or,
II fall plowed, then replow lightly be
fore sowing. Harrow thoroughly to
get fine tilth. Sow not less than two
bushels per acre; If drilled, the chances
will be better: snd roll the land smooth
after sowing, rnless 1t be heavy and in
eiined to run together. There is con
tlnued and increasing demand for bar
ley rom Year to year. On suitable
soils 1t should yield fully one half more
than wheat, and seldom brings lower
= Price than thus latter grain. ~1ssss