166 BXJLLETi:^' 1334^ L". S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICLTLTUEE 
WISCONSIN PEDIGREE (C. I. NO. 835) 
Wisconsin Pedigree is a selection made from a "barley of the Man- 
churia typQ at Madison, Wis. It has been distributed to a number 
of stations where it has given high yields. 
• MENSURY (C. I. NO. 2657) 
A barley of the Manchuria group very widely tested at the Canadian 
stations under the name '' Mensury '' has been grown at a few stations 
in the United States under this name. The history of this variety is 
not clear. It may be that a Manchuria barley was received with this 
spelhng, and it may differ a little in origin from C. I. Nos. 241 and 
244, which were the common stocks of Manchuria barley found at 
American experiment stations. Mensury was among the highest 
yielding barleys at Nappan, Nova Scotia; Ottawa, Ontario; Brandon, 
Manitoba; and Fort Vermilion, Alberta, Canada. It was mostly 
grown in the earlier years. A selection from Mensury called Man- 
churian (C. I. No. 739) has been tested recently at many stations in 
the United States as well as in Canada. 
MANCHURIAN (C.I. NO. 739) 
Manchurian (C. I. No. 739) is a selection which was made from 
Canadian Mensury by Dr. C. E. Saunders, of Ottawa, Canada. 
It is a barley of the Manchuria type which has a blue color in the 
aleurone layer. It has been more widely tested. in Canada than in 
the United States. 
ODERBRUCKER (C. I. NO. 836) 
Oderbrucker (C. I. No. 836) is a pedigreed selection of the Man- 
churia type made at the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station. 
This barley has been widely distributed over the United States, 
giving high yields at many of the stations. While it has been promis- 
ing over a w^ide area it is suited to the southern fringe of the Man- 
churia district relatively better than many other strains of that 
variety. 
ODERBRUCKER (C. I. NO. 1529) 
This variety is a pedigreed selection of Oderbrucker barley made 
at the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station, where it was 
known as Wisconsin Pedigree No. 6. The Oderbrucker barley 
belongs to the Manchuria group and seems particularly well adapted 
to Wisconsin. This selection has produced very good results at 
Madison, Wis., and at La Fayette, Ind. 
ODERBRUCKER (C. I. NO. 2700) 
There were several independent introductions of the parent stock 
of the Oderbrucker variety into the United States and Canada. 
A reference in the report of the United States Department of Agri- 
culture for 1865 (p. 28) states that this variety ''is grown very ex- 
tensively on the low, formerly swamp lands of the valley of the Oder, 
but wjiich were drained during the reign of Frederick the Great and 
has since produced tlie very best barley known on the continent of 
Europe. It is a very favorite variety for the porter brewers of Eng- 
