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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



ment, partly because of lack of suflicient snow for protection from 

 changes in temperature; warm weather in winter would at times start 

 growth which Avas later frozen. Ice and water smothered the crops in 

 many cases. These facts largely account for the failures reported by 

 farmers in the sj)ring of 1916. 



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WHAT FARMERS THINK OF WINTER BARLEY. 



REPORTS OF 1915. 



"Threshed 59 bushels from one and one-half acres. (40 pounds of seed.) I have 

 planted 33 acres of the same. If the fly and hard winters do not kill the plants I 

 think it will be the corn crop on my farm."— George C. Wheaton, Marshall. 



"I think the new winter barley a good farm crop."— George E. Linn, Williamston. 



"Well pleased with crop."— C. S. Foster, East Lansing. 



"The crop did well. It surely has a place on the Michigan farm. It is easy to 

 grow and comes early." — C. B. Cook, Allegan. 



"Seed you sent me last fall got lost. Did not get it until September 27, but I 

 sowed it then. I saved all that lived through and sowed it the 11th of September. 

 I think it will be a splendid crop for this (Oscoda) county." — Will K. Hunt, Red 

 Oak. 



"I am very much in favor of winter barley as a crop. It furnishes early feed 

 just when this sort of feed is needed most. It is a success in Elkhart County, 

 Indiana,— yielded 60 bushels per acre."— C. L. Coffeen, (Goshen, Indiana,) County 

 Agent, now located at Adrian, Michigan, 



