Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-01-18

associations experience demonstrated til,
superiority Of tho Odcrbrucker barley ov.
er the Mapshury by an average Of tiv,
bushels to the acre--as great an advan'
tagc as the Mansliury had shown ovel
common barleys.
In this way Selected Oderbrucker'
barley, also known as WISCONSIN Mum,
tbcr So" became tho standard. Severa
varieties Of corn had also developed rep.
utations in this way and were beginning
to supplant other less productive varic.
ties among corn growers throughout the
Middle West. The Golden Glow" Owls
consin Number 12) and silver King
| WISCONSIN Number y had had about
seven years. Of college training and, were
already close to being the standard vel
low and white corn, respectively. Mem
| bers Of the Experiment association WIG
had been concentrating upon growing
these grains for seed had learned the
difference between selling corn for feed.
even at eighty cents a bushel, and sell
Iub u " 5CCu a 90 u~UuSliII. SSCu "a
icy at $l,25 a bushel was u much more
profitable crop than barley for mating
at siXty-Gve, cents. So the members Of
the Experiment association, ne early 1900
Of them by this time, welcomed with en-
thusiasm Professor Moore's proposal to
take the barley crop of 1909 from the
University Of Wisconsin's twenty acres
and increase it until there should be
enough of this new strain to plan. the
the new ~barlcy-the barley that had had
n college c~ducation-was named Wis
consin Pedisrecl Barley"
One thousand members Of the Expert
ment association each planted q batch
of pedigrccd barley IN 1910, Practically
all the crop was saved for seed, and in
1911 every member not only put all the
he could spare into pcdigrced
harlcy, but supplied seed grain to as
many of mis- ncighbors as would agree to
plant. cultivate and harvest 1t under con-
ditions which would make contamination
with worthless grains Impossible. Thus.
when the barley crop OF 1911 was har-
vested, there was enough pedigrccd bar
ley on hand not only to plant the three
quarters of q million acres which Wis
,consin devotcs annually to this crop, but
to furnish a considerable proportion Of
seed for the rest Of the world. And the
rest of the world learned about the new
barley very quickly indeed. 1t was the
first barley that the maltster had ever
been able to depend upon to terminate
uniformly without loss. 1t was the first
barley that farmers had been able to
plant with the certainty of 4 full crop
running upward Of thirty-six bushels to
the acre and all ripening at the same
time. so that there was 10 loss in har-
.vcsting. And, incidentally, it was the
first barley that the millers could use
for "pcarling' without any. Of the grains
turning blue. . .
One day in June, 1912. ] dropped into
Professor Moore's office. lie was busy
at the telephone. AS he turned away
from the instrument to greet nc, he
smiled.
THAT was an order for 5000 bushels
Of Wisconsin Peligrced barley to so TO-
Japan" he said. T. keep close track here
of just what seed, grains the members Of
the association have IN hand, and that
order will be in the hands Of three. men,
who, between them, can fill it, at once.
Our pedigrecd barley has already made
Roadway in Russia, Germany and sew
cral other countries.
This one years crop Of pedigrced bar
ley will plant tho whole barley acreage
of the United States next year, Il next
years crop will suffice to furnish the en-
tire world with barley seed. OF course,
it will lake a little longer before the
farmers Of all the world wake up to the
advantage Of using pedigreed seed, but
it will not be long before the descend
ants Of the few grains Of 'Oderbrucker'
barley which I got from the Canadian
Agricultural college in 1899 will be prac.
tically the only barley under cultivation
anywhere in the world.
and this is how it translates into dol
lars and cents. The average acreage in
barley in Wisconsin has been 74d,60 for
the last five years. The average yield
has been around thirty bushels. an acre.
The average yield of the Wisconsin Ped
igrced barley is thirty-siX, and a half bu-
shells to the acre. This means a differ.
encc of more than $4,000, 900 bushels in
Wisconsin alone, and at the average price
of siXty-siX cents u bushel, a gain of Sl?.-
600, 600 for the farmers Of one state Oh
the same acreage. / do not know Of any
more striking object lesson in the i'm
portancc Of improving the quality of
seeds. Our Wisconsin Number Z corn,
developed here and through the Expert
.ment association. gives an average yield
of sixty-onc bushels to the acre, which
is twelve bushels above the average Of
the next best variety and nearly double
the average yield of the entire state.
We have developed .pedigrced rye and
pediGreed oats. which will not be ready
for extensive distribution for two or three
years yet, but one grain dealer in Tolc.
do has made a standing offer of five
for all the pedigrced rye that he can get
as soon as there are commercial crops
of II available.
The big problem the agricultural COL
lc;cs are trying to solve is how the farm
.er can get a larger return from his land.
Fertilization and cr,p rotation arc es-
scntiat, but 1t is also essential that his
seeds shall be Of the best and most pro.
ductive varieties. and our Experiment as
sociation is rapidly teaching the farmers
of Wisconsin the value Of better seeds,
The association is organized in county
orders. elch of which maintnins n farm