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Sixth Arnn"a Report of the
ODERBRUCKER BARLEY.
ORLA J. BUSSEWITZ, JUNEAU, DODGE COUNTY.
Last spring I procured two. bushels of Oderbrucker barley
from this Association and purchased in addition to this
twenty-four bushels from a neighbor who had been growing
Oderbrucker for several years.  It was sown broadcast April
25 on rich black ground with a clay sub-soil. This seed cov-
ered thirteen acres which had been fall-plowed following corn
in rotation. The barley grew rank and was not as good as it
might have been expected, conditions being unfavorable for all
grains in my vicinity. It lodged a little, the kernels did not
fill well and ripened rather unevenly. It was harvested July
30 and was threshed directly from the field as soon as it was
dry enough. The average yield was thirty-five bushels per
acre machine-measure which was a very good yield in our
neighborhood last season. We were so well satisfied with this
trial that we will sow all Oderbrucker barley the coming sea-
son.
ODERBRUCKER BARLEY.
LOUIS HEYROTH, MISHICOT, MANITOWOC    ONJKTV.
Mr. President, Fellow Members: In the spring of 1906, as
a member of the Experiment Association I reeeived two bushels
of Oderbrucker barley which I took to my home farm. This
seed was sown on a piece of fall plowed clay loam where a crop
of corn was grown the year previous.
The barley came up fine and made a .splendid growth
throughout the season.
It ripened evenly and showed no smut.
This barley had stiffer straw and did not lodge as did the
other varieties on the same kind of ground.
It was cut about the last of July and taken into the barn
before any rain fell upon it.
The yield of this 3/4 acre was 30 bushels making a yield of
about 40 bushels per acre.
The scrub varieties only gave an average yield of 30 bush-
els an acre. In the spring of 1907 I put in about 71½ acres of
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