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to be excellent for brewing purposes. There are numer- 

 ous spellings of the name of this barley in literature, but 

 the spelling Manchuria is manifestly the correct one, that 

 being the spelling of the name of the country from which 

 it was obtained, which name was evidently the one in- 

 tended for the barley. 



169. Tests and distribution. In the records of the 

 Wisconsin Experiment Farm for 1872 is the following 

 entry : " Manshury barley : Seed from H. Grunow, Esq., 

 Miffin, Iowa County, Wisconsin. A six-rowed variety; 

 14 pounds sown, etc." W. W. Daniells, then in charge 

 of the Experiment Farm, continued to grow the variety 

 and disseminate the seed, along with other seeds, until 

 1880. The yield to the acre in bushels of the five best 

 varieties for the 10-year period 1871-1880 was, Man- 

 churia 52.9, Probsteier 45.0, Common Scotch 39.9, Saxon 

 35.4, Chevalier 30.7. In 1878 the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture bought 100 bushels from N. W. Dean 

 at Madison, Wisconsin, and distributed it for sowing that 

 year. 



Manchuria has the widest distribution of all North 

 American barleys. As stated elsewhere, it is the chief 

 source of the entire production of six-row barley in North 

 America. It is particularly common throughout Canada, 

 and all the northern and northeastern States. Oder- 

 brucker is practically the same thing, but is a strain spe- 

 cially exploited by the Wisconsin Experiment Station (see 

 Fig. 48). 



170. Hanna barley. This variety of nodding two-row 

 barley is so called because it originated in the valley of 

 the river Hanna in Moravia. The principal introduction 

 was made by D. G. Fairchild, for the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, January 16, 1901, a sample having 



