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in 1872. For many years this was the best variety at the Wisconsin 
station. It was widely distributed to farmers in Wisconsin and at 
one time constituted a large part of the acreage of barley in that 
State. It is probable that there is much of the original ^' Manshury " 
stock or selections of it grown in Wisconsin and neighboring States. 
This Wisconsin Manchuria was sent to other stations and is the 
foundation of many selections made elsewhere. It proved to be gen- 
erally better than the 6-rowed barleys from western Eurasia more 
commonly grown before its introduction. Tliis variety was grown 
and distributed under various names and State numbers, such as 
Minnesota No. 6, North Dakota No. 787, Manshury, Mansury, and 
Manchuria. 
MANCHURIA (C. I. NO. 2330) 
Manchuria (C. I. No. 2330) is a selection made at the Minnesota 
Agricultural Experiment Station, where it is grov^n as Minnesota No. 
184. This barley has been tested at comparatively few stations out- 
side of Minnesota but produced high yields for the years it was 
grown at La Fayette, Ind. At all of the Minnesota stations where 
barley has been grown Manchuria (C. I. No. 2330) has been one of 
the best varieties. It seems to be a high-yielding Manchuria strain 
that is particularly well adapted to Minnesota conditions. 
SILVER KING (C. I. NO. 890) 
Silver King (C. I. No. 890) is a barley of the Manchuria t3rpe which 
has been widely distributed over the United States by the Wisconsin 
Agricultural Experim.ent Station. It has proved a high-yielding 
variety at many places. Numerous high-yielding selections of Silver 
King were made at Madison. 
FEATRERSTON (C. I. NO. 1120) 
Featnerston (C. I. No. 1120) was first grown in the cooperative 
breeding experiments conducted by the United States Department of 
Agriculture and the Minnesota Agricultural Experimxcnt Station at 
St. Paul, Minn. It came from a head selection made on a farm near 
Red Wing, Minn. This barley belongs to the Manchuria group. 
Since 1913 it has been grown at the Cornell Agricultural Experiment 
Station at Ithaca, N. Y., where it has yielded exceptionally well. 
During these years its yield was 115.3 per cent of that of the weighted 
mean of all varieties. Featherston has been distributed from Ithaca 
to farmers and to other stations. 
O. A. C. 21 (C. I. NO. 1470) 
A selection of Manchuria (C. I. No. 244) made by Prof. C. A. 
Zavitz at the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, Ontario, 
proved to be of unusual merit and was given the number O. A. C» 
21 (C. I. No. 1470). It is probably the best Manchuria selection 
tested in Canada. It has been grown at a number of points in the 
United States in recent years. The yields have not been relatively 
so high as in Canada, but the variety should be m.ore thoroughly 
tested in the States. It produced the best yields at Indian Head, 
Saskatchewan, and yielded well at Lacombe and Rosthern. 
