CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM OF CANADA, 



Bulletin No. 7, April, 1890 (pp. 13). 



Two ROWED BARLEY, WiLLiAM SAUNDERS. — Keplies from a num- 

 ber of maltsters, brewers, and corn brokers in Great Britain, based on 

 samples of two-rowed barley grown in Canada iu 1889, are quoted to 

 show that such barley is likely to be favorably received in the English 

 market. The varieties included in the samples were Carter's Prize 

 Prolific, Danish Chevalier, Danish Priutice Chevalier, Beardless, and 

 Euglish Malting. The valuations given in the replies above referred 

 to ranged from 78 cents to $1.12 and averaged 94 cents per Canadian 

 bushel of 48 pounds, delivered in England. 



Taking the average cost of transportation from Canada to England to be 15 cents 

 per bushel and allowing 3 cents additional for commissions and incidental expenses, 

 this would leave the farmer, on the basis of the lowest of the estimates given, 60 

 ■cents here for the Canadian bushel ; taking the average figure, it would be 76 cents, 

 and on the higher estimates 88 to 94 cents. 



Placing the exports of Canadian barley at 10,000,000 bushels, every cent per bushel 

 added to the price obtained for it puts $100,000 into the pockets of the farmers, and 

 had the entire crop of surplus barley of 1889 in Cauada been two-rowed and sold at 

 the lowest figures which have been given for the poorest of the samples sent to Eng- 

 land, instead of shipping the crop to the United States at an average of about 4."> 

 cents, the gain to the farmers of Canada would have amounted to $l,.'iOO,000, and 

 could the average price which has been named have been obtained, the dijfference 

 would have been over $3,000,000. With such possibilities in view the wisdom of 

 making a strong eflort in that direction can scarcely be questioned by any reason- 

 able mind. 



It is also stated that experiments at the experimental farms in Can- 

 ada, as far as they go, indicate that with proper cultivation two-rowed 

 barley will improve rather than deteriorate in the climate and soil of 

 Canada. 



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