Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-11-16

Imanulng price iar below the mar
ket price of the best Bavarian and
bohemian barleys in Europe. The
cost of freight per bushel from New
York to Hamburg, Germany, is only
abomt cents, while the prices paid
for good mailing barley in Bavaria
are 90 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 a
good quality of barley. 1t is there
fore, time for us to better ourselves
and place on these markets 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
i 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 dlsadvan-
tage OF transportation.
Il 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:
1. The importation of pure races
OF barley.
2. The breeding OF pure races OF
. barley.
, 3. The testing OF pure races OF
3 barley for yield and mailing.
A. The establishment OF large
barley centers for each variety.
s. Dissemination of Information
4 on culture and care.
= BY pure races of pedigreed barle!
, we mean such as originated from
y single seed and has passed through
: a rigorous course OF selection. W.
n propose TO carry on our breedinl
4 work here at this station, along tw'
definite lines: first, by line breed
t ing. and second, by hybridization
g The process OF line breeding whicl
d we intend TO carry out is that mrs
b carried out In this country by Prof
J. w. NJ. Hays, assistant secretary o
n agriculture, while he was agronomis
e at the Minnesota station II consist
n OF growing the progeny OF singl
e seed, and wedding out carefully eae
1t year the poorer plants while Tn
Is strongest and most desirable plant
r are retained. Thus within five o
~ six years sufficient seed of a supe'
le ior quality can be secured to So
Nt ,one-twentieth of an acre.
n The process of hybridization cor
HnWaF VII
lg pollen from another. thus by selee
er ing two plants which have each d'
he sirable qualities we are able TO con
ne bine the two and produce a strongf
u and more desirable progeny.
j. We propose thus TO work towar
al the ideal of securing after a fe
Sc years some desirable variety.
e. Professor Moore has been at wor
u the past six years and, as resul
e. has now the only pedigree barley
an produced in the state. During the'
al years he has been steadily but quit
lly working and has now sufieiei
m pedigreed seed for four varieties
et SOW one-tenth acre of each the con
e" ing summer. These varieties al
an Oderbrucker, Manchuria' Golde
OF Queen and Silver King. These qual
ISL titles are somewhat small as "
M when we consider stocking the who
ty United States or even the state
ed Wisconsin with them, and the pro
Isl pect of accomplishing the same VII
as varieties still to be produced Is stl
farther in the distance.
"a We have, however, learned OF
n great work which has been done
I'M Sweden by DR.. Atterberg and q
nd successor, DR.. Hjalmar Nilsson
OF syalof. Sweden. These men hay