The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-01-20
WING GRAIN IN NEARBY STATES
Northwestern States Lead i'm Production of
trains Other Than Wheat-Barey, Oats,
Rye and Flax at Front.

10 TIC great cIOpS IL NAAhO
North and South Dakota, Iowa
Wisconsin are wheat and corn,
states are far in the lead in the
ction of barley, oats, rye and
eed.
lie we, in the United States,
little or nothing about barley
it was for centuries the bread
of all Of Europe. Until the last
century it was only the wealthy
IS Of Europe that could afford to
Wheat bread. Great armies were
n bread made from barley, and
as the important crop of nearly
uropean nations, just as wheat
corn is our most important crop
?. A failure of the barley crop
have meant to them what a
Of the wheat or corn crop
mean to us at the present time.
us, however, barley was never
rs a bread food, and is important
because Of its use in the manu-
e of malt liquor Its usefulness,
yer, for this purpose is fast
ng, and for many years past the
Iction of barley has been on the
ase
1900 Minnesota as said to be the
Id greatest of the barley states,
ng 24,750,000 bushels of that &C.
while California, which had the
test crop, only raised 25,1OO,OOO
leIs. In 1900 wisconsin came
/, with 100000 bushels, and
fourth, with 100000 bushels,
lie North and South Dakota both
rested a fair-sized crop. This year
nesota and the two Dakotas raised
Teen them 63,634,000 bushels Of
barley. while Iowa and Wisconsin
almost as well.
he value of any crop. of course, de-
DIS upon the use there is for it. In
ifornia we find that barley is fed to
horses as feed, being a greater
in that state by five times than
8. and being too far removed from
great breweries of the country to
of use in the manufacture Of beer
other malt liquor. The great crop
barley grown in the five states
1ve mentioned, however, all finds It's
Y to the great breweries, and near
every bushel of it that is not used
food by man is turned into beer
d malt liquor of other sorts. The
eatest breweries in the country are,
every one knows, those found at
lwaukee and ST. Louis. But there
2 some large breweries ct ST. Paul
d Minneapolis, and many small ones
altered all over the Central North
,st. For this reason the barley crop
one of great value to the farmers
this section of the country. The
riley crop Of Minnesota and the two
.kotas is valued at $23, 429,854 to the
rmers this season.
The history of barley in Minnesota
ows that there has been a steady
crease in this cereal since 1850, in
lich year the crop was only 1916
shells. Ten years later it was 109,-
s bushels. and in 1870 1,032,024 were
rvested. In 1880 the crop reached
~. go bushels, and ten years later
Is 9.10O,682 bushels. In 1900 the
eat crop of 24,314,240 bushels was
rvested.
III, 1o,,o,o,,& =, orooco in tho nrOdIIp.
N of barley in the United States
ring the ten years from 1889 to 1899
Is in Minnesota. The increase was
.219,557 bushels more than the crop
rvested in 1889.
Fifty years ago the center of barley
Oduction was just east Of the cen
: o. the state of New York. To-day
is near the Junction of Iowa and
nth Dakota, 1900 miles further
,st.
An interesting feature connected
tn barley is the fact that for the
It year thousands of Japanese sol
7rs have been living upon it and
hitting great battles on it just as Ma
Icons soldiers did hundred years
o. A great deal Of barley is now
ing shipped TO Japan and the Phil
pines, and it is quite possible that
the near future we will be raising
riley as an Eastern export.
The present year saw harvest of
.487, 100 bushels of barley in Min
sofa, 6S5,000 bushels in North Da-
ia and 390,0O6 bushels in South Da-
ia, valued at 23,429,S54 to the
rmers.
Another crop that is Of great impor-
nee in the five states about which
: are writing is fax. In this cereal
1rth Dakota stands first. with IT,
8 900 bushels. valued at $15,595, 200,
d Minnesota second, with 6,786,O00
shells. valued at $6,175,260; South
.kota produced 3,737,500 bushels,
iued at $3.326,375.
A review of the history Of these
ates show that fax has been raised
Minnesota and the Dakotas all dur
2 the fifty years past, and like bar
? has been on the increase since the
ry first. There is less reliable sta
ticaI information obtainable about
is crop than there is about any of
e other crops but every one admits
at it is one of the Northwest's most
portant crops. The crop of 1905
Is the largest in the history of the
orthwest, and the outlook is that the
0p will be even larger next year, al