Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-11-28

e consular reports, our barleys are de
v manding a price far below the mar
/. ket price Of the best Bavarian ant
Bohemian barleys in Europe. The
cost of freight per bushel from New
: York to Hamburg, Germany, Is only
$ aboait 9 cents, while the prices paid
for good mailing barley in Bavaria
, are 20 to 40 cents per bushel higher
than those in America. Recent laws
in England requiring the use of pure
malt is opening that market to q
good quality of barley. 1t is, there
fore, time for us to better ourselves
and place on these markets a barley
which will have reputation and
will capture and hold these markets
for us.
The utter annihilation of the bar
ley industry on the small farms in
the east by the great level fertile
grain acres of the west where the
use of improved machinery is pos
sible, indicate to us the possibility,
almost certainty, that given an
equally good variety of grain these
same grain areas can successfully
compete with the small farms of
Europe with their primitive methods
even with the necessary disadvan.
,tage OF transportation.
It is for us to find the evils with
our present barleys and remedy
them.
Reports from Europe agree with |
the same from masters and brewers
in America regarding the lack o,
uniformity in termination and other
evils consequent upon the serious
mixture OF our present barleys. We
believe, therefore, that the remedy
lies In the introduction of pure races
OF superior brewing barleys into the
barley areas of the United States.
We propose, therefore, to attack
the problem by the following lines
OF work:
J.. The importation OF pure races
Of barley.
2. The breeding OF pure races OF
barley.
g.. The testing of pure races OF
barley for yield and mating.
4. The establishment OF large
barley centers for each variety.
3. Dissemination OF information
on culture and care.
BY pure races OF pedigreed barley
we mean such as originated from
single seed and has passed through
4 rigorous course of selection. We
propose TO carry on our breeding
work here at this station. along two
definite lines: first, by line breed
ng, and second, by hybrldlzation.
rhe process OF line breeding which
NE intend to carry out Is that first
carried out in this country by Prof.
w. M. Hays, assistant secretary OF
agriculture. while he was agronomist
1t the Minnesota station. II consists
of growing the progeny OF a single
seed, and wedding out carefully each
year the poorer plants while the b
strongest and most desirable plants n
are retained. Thus within Ave or ,
six years sufficient seed OF a super
Ior quality can be secured to SOW
of an acre. s
The process of hybridization con- e
sists in fertillzing one flower with h
pollen from another. thus by select 4
Ing two plants which have each de-
sirable qualities we are able to COM
bine the two and produce a stronger 6
and more desirable progeny. L
We propose thus to work toward
The ideal of securing after a few !
years some desirable variety. e
Professor Moore has been at work -
he past six years and. as a result,
has now the only pedigree barleys
produced in the state. Daring these
years he has been steadily but quite q
y working and has now sufficient
pedigreed seed for four varieties TO i
'ow one-tenth acre of each the COM +
ng summer These varieties are y
Oderbrucker, Manchuria, Golden =
queen and Silver King. These guam d
ities are somewhat small as yer
when We consider stocking the whole s.
United States or even the state OF u
Wisconsin with them, and the pros II
'ect of accomplishing the same with d
arieties still to be produced is still "
arther in the distance.
We have, however, learned of a SC
reat work which has been done 10 m
weden by DR.. Atterberg and his D'
uecessor, DR.. Hjalmar Nilsson OF 10
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