The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-04-01
for the farnler.
- NE CROw BARLEYf

"a now quoted at s1.4O per busnei;
pa White amber wheat brings l:2o ana H sc,d
r,;.nesota Spring wheat but Sl.lV. a ne in
tI,at will bring 20 bushels OF amber wheae IL
hiring 40 bushels of barley II the sol, I oorn
Drsparation suited for this crop. Besides coLI
tttnbble NAV be prepared fer a barley crop, anu
no other crop is so well fitted for seeding w "a
with clover as this. For convenience, INCL I'm
we'll as profit, barley is a far Detter o IP, mor
wheat The present condition OF the Wiz, ;,,T,
tst all over the world is not encouIAS.S'
Prices become smaller by degrees ana oIau.
fully less day by day, and those "ho az Ii -
for higher prices must have snbstahlIaI anu I'll
Droof granaries OF there will be no wheat 10 sen
k tbe time fine higher prices arrive l6 is not
AZ aII nro,abIs that any disaster VIII occur 10
tLo co,ning crou of wheat, which is IN excellent
condition everywhere, and promises well after
foyorabIe Winter. The hope of Improvement IN
rr;ces therefore hangs by a very slender thread,
IF IL hangs anywhere at all which is very doubt
ful. Consequently it is a question now present
ing itself whether it would not be better to grow
less wheat and more barley.
There are several reasons why we shOnld.
The price is an inducement. That the cultiva-
ton of barley tends tie keep the ground free from
weeds is another, for the Fall blowing that would
be given with the Spring cultivation would kill
ont vast numbers of Weeds and the short time
the crop occupies -tha ground, and the better
catch of clover follows it, both help TO clean the
soil. If barley is more largely grown than now,
and displaces q portion of the wheat crop. the
residue of this crop is enchanted in price. it IS
strange that with such an extent of soil suitable
for barley in this country this grain should be
imported. Yet it is; and stranger still, such is
the demand in Australia for barley, that II is
carried all the way from England thither. Year
by year the demand of our brewers Will increase.
The use of beer is rapidly extending. As COM
pared with spirits beer is very wholesome and
nutritious beverage, and it is not among the
beer drinkers that the vice and lawnessness in
cident 20 intemperance are found. 1t is most
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valve of barley will fall of for many years, or
that there will be any difficulty in disposing
readily of largely increased crop.
The chief troNble in raising barley is that high
condition of the soil and excellent cultivation
are needed. But this is one Of the highest rec
concentrations of the crop, and it Will be for
tunate thing for the farmers if they are forced to
change their present rotation so as to admit bar
ley frequently. Barley is not an exhaustive
crop, and by the application of $50 pounds OF
superphosphate of lime and go pounds OF nitrate
of soda yearly, has been grown by Mr.. Laws Of
Rothamstead, England, for % years successfully
upon the same ground, yielding an average OF ~
bushels of 53t pounds per bnsheL we can nor
doubt that It could be equally raised here with
profit if we should give the same care 10 expert
ment and the same attention to cultivation.
The choice of seed is the two-rowed and the
six-rowed. There is no "four- Proved" as is some
times stated The twO-rowed ripens after Fall
wheat: il is a heavier grain and yields more
straw than the six-rowed. But the six-rowed,
while it has the Inconvenience of ripening with
Fall wheat, brings here higher price than the
tworowed In England the opposite is the fact;
there brewers prefer the latter kind. The soil
has q great influence upon the character of the
grain, and while a fine mellow loan is specially
O barley soil, yet it will yield well upon heavy
clay with proper preparation of the seed-bed.
The rich sandy lean of the trans-Missouri prai-
ne now devoted to Spring wheat grows excellent
barley. Splendid barley has been grown in the
Arkansas Valley Of Kansas, in the Platte Valley
of Nebraska, upon the rich clay bottoms of the
Gennesee Valley in New York, and upon the
sandy shores of Long Island. With such an ex-
tensive range it would be strange enough if
farmers cannot supply a market which offers
STAG per - BIS of barley and only S11O per Sc lbs
of wheat.-HesterH n. 7.