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Kansas. Both, in Nebraska and Kansas there were extensive changes, 
not only in the acreage but in the sections in which barley was grown. 
The portions of these States best adapted to the production of barley, 
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Fig, 6.— In 1890 the tariff on barley was raised to 30 cents per bushel. The malt houses of 
western New York had beensecuring part of their barley from Canada, but this tariff made 
the importation of barley unprofitable. _ The near-by supplies were insufficient and the 
malting industry was transferred to Wisconsin and jMinnesota. In New York the area 
devoted to barley decreased after 1890. Production Increased notably in Minnesota and 
California, also in eastern Washington and Oregon, in the Red River VaUey, and in the 
central section of the Great Plains area 
when economic as well as chmatic conditions are taken into considera- 
tion, were not yet growing barley. 
In Figure 7, showing the production of barley in 1909, the center 
of cultivation in Kansas is more nearly in the section in which it will 
Tip,. 7.— The decade ending in 1909 was marked by the rapid expansion of the acreage in the 
Dakotas and the definite beginning of a center of production in northwestern Kansas. 
Minnesota was now the leading State, producing, with the Dakotas, almost half of the 
national crop. California, liowever, was a close second to Minnesota, with an average 
production of 29 million bushels in the last five years of this decade 
1)0 permanent. The climatic and soil conditions of northwestern 
Kansas are better suited to the production of barley than is the 
case either east or south. It is probable that for economic reasons 
