The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-12-27
FARMERS LEAN
| TO BARLEY CROP
Find 1t Surer Crop Than
Corn and High Feed
Value.
by W. ID. LITTLE

| the fltzhugh community nf u
| VIC county are turning from r,,.,' ~
| pafIey as a feed grain Gro, "
years ago almost no baricy "ur
grown there today It ia ono vas
| most profitable crops And ne
acreage devoted to both tho MI. ~.
ana spring varieties is randi, d.,
creas .ng. F'''N m
j. H. Hin, county farm agent ,,,
years ago persuaded some nr
fHHnugh FARMERS TO try barley T,,'
',suitS were so satisfactory thst
othcTs foIlowed. The acreage b.s
increased from year 10 yo.r ,
may soon rival wheat and nafs ,,'I
corn as feed crop, not only ar,I,,''i
titzhugh but throughout tho c,,irn
country. The fame of the grain has
spread and farmers all over ns
country are becoming onthuslas,ic
over it.
II. NJ. Mckee, one OF the vc'.to,
do farmers of the community l,s.
February planted ~ acres of spr,ny
barley and harvested so busbs,s -
the acre. He says he planted t,o
early. as the first of March Womb
have been better, barley NOT hnyins,. .
me cold resisting qualitic, of oats
me rust also was bad I'm the com. >
inuniiy and cut the yield. The fecd
ing value Of barley. however. is cs.
tlfnated as 80 per cent Of that If
corn ana with a 30-bushcl Weld
mace more feed than the same land
would have made in corn.
Convenient to Care For.
Mr.. Mckee says one Of the host
things about spring barley is thn
liine Tor working. 1t can be sown
after oats and harvested bcforo
Wheat ana oats are ready. II can
therefore. be easily worked into y,
rotation of crops.
A. {. Thompson is strong r.,
WINTER barley. He has forty a,r,s
'O"h thls winter and will use ~ for
Pa' ,ure durihg tho winter months.
re mas Deen raising the crop as long
ds any III the community and s.,s
hat land which will acer,,o fra',, 4
seven to ten bushels OF corn u.'ii
average three times as many busbo,,
winter barley. He has demon
strated mat land like his will easily
aserage three times as many bushels
~ ihe small grain as IT will the
neaNg indian corn, and the feeding
value is only 10 per cent less. He
says ne VIII not let any one MAN
corn on his place.
hen | raised corn | always had
TO buy feed" Mr.. Thompson said
since ! began growing barley. al
iaifa and oats. as well as wheat. I
nave plenty of feed for all the stock
want to keep. | will say In this
connection, there is scarcely a farm
u 100 acre. IN this entire section
or the state that docs not contain A.
i'dst iitlle alfalfa land. Every
N Ia t.. IA,
IT," Va
HIS Turn to laugh,
ms is digrossion but inter.
csting. Mr.. Thompson poinfs to hi.
own farm as proof OF this last s,atc.
ment' His neighbon, laughed ~ hin,
ana the county agent when they bn.
san 10 get a ten-acre tract readv .nr
/. .ua'ia seeding. He now gets from
'our 10 iiVc cuttings a wear and
'Nerases around seven tons ia The
tcrt annually. Others are pott,ny
ready TO follow. e''''"s
Last winter Mr.. Thomson had
even acres in winter barley whirh
'e USED Tor pasture. After runnInr
- nedu OF stock on IL all winter ne
maze 30 bushels OF grain 10 the
'cre, anu at that the yield was cut
ioaVily py the rust. He saws thu,
a'he iand would not have produced
nore than . bushels of corn. Hogs
~ N''s idrin 1attcn out on barley
'pou' as well as they doom corn.
W. -. Fine in the fall of 1915
'ought five bushels OF wintor bar-
ey and planted five acres. His Weld
ne ioliowing summer was Sc bugl-.
rs an acre. In the fall of 1919 Ne
'ianted 10 acres. but the rust on,
'H Nie'u last summer to 30 bushels.
rear after year" explains this
aiiter' who has grown the crop
oth favorable and an unfdvorable
ear harley will make Just about
vice as many bushels as corn.
mere are years when IT will not =
make any more. but it is certainly
luch more dependable and will paN
luch better"
Hogs Thrive on Barley.
Mr' f1ne has large bunch ot
ogs which never ate any corn. be-
X barley fed entirely. They re-
'mble the best corn-fed stuff
'hen he gets ready to finish the
ogs off, he feeds seven-eighths corn
nd one-e:ghth barley.
My experience has been that the
IAN who grows corn and hogs in
lis section, either has all hogs and
u corn or all corn and no hngs'
arley Is certain and tho farmer
nows what to figure on. The farm
should raise enough corn % I'm
h the hogs on, though"
In speaking Of the success q! bar
Y growing County Agent Hill SAYS
1T has been demonstrated time
I'd time again that barley ~ murh
Ter here than corn. 1t has neeh
Iown that approXimately twice as
uch feed can be grown on an acre
ground with barley as with corn
II counting the value OF the winter
sture crop at all. The farmers
Q increasing the acreage Iu bal
y. but II seems to me they are not
croasing II as rapidly as the r9t
Is insiifN II