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Bay Brewing and Chevalier. (473) The use of these terms in 

 trade does not correspond closely to variety types. 



Scotch is a six-rowed barley said to have been introduced 

 Into Wisconsin from Canada in 1866 by William Buchheit, 

 Waterton, Wis. It has since been largely raised in Wisconsin, 

 Iowa and Minnesota. Bay Brewing or California Bay is a six- 

 rowed variety originally raised in a small district lying south of 

 the Bay of San Francisco, but now more widely distributed 

 in California. Chevalier is a w^ell-known European two-rowed 

 variety said to have been originated in 18 19 through selection 

 by the Rev. J. Chevalier, rector of Stoneham, Suffolk, England. 

 Manshury is a standard variety that has been tested and dis- 

 tributed by the Wisconsin Station. 



"This variety originated in Manchuria, China. A scientific traveler in 1S59 

 brought some from Eastern Asia to Germany, and it was grown in the King's garden 

 at Sans Souci with success. Dr. Herman Grunow, Mifflin, Iowa county, Wis., while 

 on a visit to Germany was advised to try some in America, and brought home with 

 him two pounds of the seed. This was sown and compared %\ith about a dozen 

 othe*- varieties and proved much superior to any on trial." 1 



Oderbrucker, a six-rowed variety imported from Germany b;/ 

 the Ontario Agricultural College, resembles IManshuiy closel}'. 

 Among fourteen stations in the United States and Canada which 

 have tested varieties of barley for periods from one to ten years; 

 twelve included Manshury (six-rowed) and eight Chevalier (two- 

 rowed) among their recommended list of varieties. No othei 

 variety is recommended by four stations. 



The yield of grain of hull-less varieties is usually less than 

 varieties bearing hulls, due in part to the absence of the hulls. 

 The straw is weaker and more liable to lodge, thus further re- 

 ducing the yield harvested. The Ontario Agricultural College, 

 as the result of testing eight varieties of hull-less barley for ten 

 years, recommends Guy Mayle, Black Hull-less and Purple.^ 

 The Arizona Station recommends beardless varieties for hay, 



1 Wis. Rpt. 1903, p. 265. 



2 Ont. Agr. Col. and Expt. Farms Rpt. 1903, p. 133. 



