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Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Association.
MANSHUIRY PARLEY.
11. E. KRUEGER, BEAVER DA-M, DODGE COUNTY.
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: According to the
Experiment Station reports, iManshury barley has been grown in
Wisconsin for about 45 years, sometimes the yield has declined
but on the average it has kept steadily in the lead under all
sorts of conditions until the past few years the Oderbrucker
seems to have gotten the lead. The Manshury has been grown
on our farm for 15 years and still has a place there. Although
the average yield of Oderbrucker was six bushels more per acre.
We sowed our barley this year the first week in iMay, this of
course was late and with us the late sowing is always light in
weight but we have no reason to complain considering the sea-
son with so much rain and cold. The barley gives a weight of
48 lbs. per measured bushel. I think considerable is due to cap-
ping the grain in shock, and stacking as soon as dry. The
shock threshing leaves the barley out in the sun and rain too
long which gives it a dull look and leaves it lighter in weight.
Some people think it does not hurt the kernels of grain to
leave them exposed to sun and weather but I am of the opinion
that there is a great loss in weight the same as in timothy hay
which by exposure gets lighter and loses a- large part of its
feeding value. I always sow our barley on ground that is fall
plowed and following corn in rotation.
MANSHURlTY BARLEY.
CLARENCE JORDALEN, STOUGHTON, DANE COUNTY.
My first experiment with the Manshury barley was in 1905
when I raised two acres of it. I found it far superior to thE
barley we had grown before. The mest noticeable difference,
I observed, was in the uniformity of growth of the straw and in
the development of the grain. It yielded about 50 bushels of
heavy plump grain to the acre.
In 1906 I raised ten acres of the Manshury. I took special
care that vear with the seed, cleaning it several times and also
treating again thoroughly with formaldehyde for prevention of
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