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By the year 1879 a large quantity of barley was raised in eastern 
Oregon and Washington (fig. 4). The conditions here are favorable ^ 
to the growing of barleys of the type found in California. Barley 
Fig. 3. — In the decade from 1860 to 1869 barley became commonly cultivated in southeastern 
INIinnesota and its culture was begun in eastern Oregon and Washington.^ There was a 
notable increase in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois, and son:e increase in the 
southern section of the Great Plains area and in the Mountain States. California and New 
York, however, remained the most important producing States 
was grown over a wider acreage in California than in 1869. Figure 
4 shows that centers of production had become prominent in western 
New York, eastern Wisconsin, southeastern Mmnesota, and central 
California. These centers were maintained for many years. Barley 
was grown as a cash crop, and the production was far beyond the local 
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Fio. 4.— In the years from 1870 to 1879 the total production of barley in the United States 
increa,sod almost 60 per cent. The culture of bailey was extended west\\ ard into eastern 
Nebraska and southeastern Dakota. It also became more widely distributed in the Pacific 
Coast States, while a small production was developing in LUah, Nevada, and Arizona 
needs. It will be noted that there was a heavy increase in the pro- 
duction in southeastern Nebraska and a beginning of cidtivation 
in the southeast corner of Da)kota Territory. The acreage was not 
