FARMER SEED & NURSERY CO., FARIBAULT, MINN. 
NORTHERN GROWN 
SEED BARLEY 
PURE SEED BARLEY IN GREAT DEMAND 
The 1934 planting season will find many farmers seeding 
barley with the idea of disposing of the crop for malting 
purposes. All varieties are not adapted for malting and 
in order to grow those which will meet with the full ap¬ 
proval of the maltster, he sure to read the descriptions 
carefully and obtain your seed from reliable sources. 
Drought has curtailed the production of barley during the 
season of 1933 and with the increased demand for malting 
purposes as well as for feed, it is safe to say that the good, 
quality seed will be quickly used up, and those who wait 
too long will have to be content with off grades, many of 
which will not be suited for seed nor will they produce 
market barley. Remember you can depend upon “Master 
Farmer’’ quality seed for giving the greatest satisfaction 
and results. 
A down payment of 25% will hold seed until wanted; 
balance may be paid at the time shipping instructions are 
sent. 
Malting barleys must be free from mixtures. 
VELVET BARLEY 
Minnesota No. 447 —Certified 
The demand for Velvet Barley has been 
steadily increasing each year since its intro¬ 
duction. If you have not tried this outstanding 
variety, we suggest that you get started with 
it this year, for it is one of the best smooth- 
bearded varieties now being grown. 
Velvet originated from a cross between Luth, 
a rough awned, six-rowed barley of the Man¬ 
churian type and a smooth awned variety. It 
is a most excellent yielder, producing as much 
grain as Manchuria. The straw is quite stiff, 
the lodging percentage being no greater than 
that of other stiff-strawed varieties. Velvet ap¬ 
pears to be more disease resistant than other 
varieties. With its smooth beards or awns, 
Velvet has a very distinct advantage over the 
rough awned types since it has no barb that will 
stick in the clothing or get into the flesh. 
Therefore, it can be handled much more easily. 
Velvet is in great demand by the manufac¬ 
turers of malt and there is every indication 
that the limited supply of this variety will be 
quickly exhausted before planting time. 
We have many excellent reports from all over 
the northern part of the United States about 
Velvet Barley. Each year many carloads of 
this variety are shipped into Iowa, Illinois, In¬ 
diana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and other states, and 
we have had many inquiries for carlot shipments 
into these sections during the present season. 
Once you try Velvet or other smooth-bearded 
varieties, you will not want to change back to 
the rough types. We offer Velvet Barley Seed, 
certified by the Minnesota Crop Improvement 
Association which gives you assurance of ob¬ 
taining the true variety of the very highest 
purity. See Blue Figure Price List. 
WISCONSIN PEDIGREE NO. 38 
BARLEY 
The New Heavy Yielding Smooth 
Bearded Barley—Certified 
This variety was developed by the Wisconsin 
Experiment Station by crossing a black smooth- 
bearded barley with Oderbruclcer which is a 
standard white kern'eled variety. They suc¬ 
ceeded in obtaining a number of strains from 
this cross that were smooth-bearded with white 
heads and from these strains careful selections 
were made for size of heads and kernels, re¬ 
sistance to disease, stiffness of straw and 
yielding ability. 
Wisconsin Pedigree No. 38 Barbless Barley 
has the following outstanding characteristics: 
First —Smooth-Bearded. This feature makes 
the barley very easy to handle and because of 
this, it has stimulated production of barley to 
a great extent. 
Second —Resistance to hot weather. This 
barley appears able to withstand a greater de¬ 
gree of heat than many other varieties of bar¬ 
ley which are now being grown. It matures a 
few days later than Glabron and Velvet; but 
with its resistance to hot weather and long, 
stiff straw, it is able to stand up and develop 
larger kernels than some of the earlier va¬ 
rieties. 
Third —Yields heavily. Wisconsin No. 38 
Barbless Barley has shown its ability to out- 
yield other varieties and has produced as high 
as 70 bushels or more per acre. In Wisconsin 
tests, this variety has always outyielded any of 
the common barley grown in comparison with it. 
Fourth —Finest for malting. Wisconsin No. 
38 Barbless Barley is greatly desired by the 
manufacturers of malt and will command a 
premium over many other varieties on the mar¬ 
ket. See Blue Figure Price List. 
(Courtesy Internat’l Harvester Co.) 
GLABRON BARLEY 
Minnesota No. 445—Certified 
The plant breeders bf the country are striv¬ 
ing at all times to give the farmers new va¬ 
rieties of merit. This is especially true at the 
Minnesota Experiment Station where the most 
able plant breeders of the country have given 
you Manchuria (Minn. No. 184) and Velvet 
(Minn. No. 447) Bafleys among other varieties. 
Now we are able to offer you their newest bar¬ 
ley origination known as Glabron Barley. 
Glabron is the result of a cross between 
Smooth Awn and Manchuria. It is smooth- 
bearded, making it very easy to handle, and 
the beards thresh clean. With a straw much 
stiffer than that of most other varieties, it will 
withstand lodging. It grows slightly taller than 
Velvet, produces a larger kernel, and yield 
data show that it will outyield consistently all 
other varieties. It can be grown throughout 
the northern half of the country from the 
Dakotas and Nebraska east, also in the Great 
Plains area where the rainfall is sufficient. 
Barley is being generally distributed to a 
greater extent this year than any year since 
prohibition went into effect. The reason for 
this is that maltsters will need more high quality 
barley, which in turn- will have a tendency to. 
raise the price of feed barley, resulting in 
greater returns from barley than from many 
other crops. We therefore recommend to you 
that you place your order with us early so that 
vou can get the kind of barley that you will 
require. See Blue Figure Price List. 
NEW ERA BARLEY 
Improved White Hulless 
New Era is the outstanding white Hulless va¬ 
riety of barley now being grown and it is high 
yielding. It is bearded like Manchuria, but 
the beards and hulls drop off when threshed, 
leaving naked white kernels. It is an excellent 
yielder. See Blue Figure Price List. 
BUCKWHEAT 
QUALITY SEED BARLEY PAYS 
The Agricultural Extension Division of the University, under the 
supervision of Mr. Ralph Crim, conducted a series of meetings through¬ 
out southern Minnesota to discuss barley problems. It was pointed out 
at these meetings that many growers had been allowing the better 
prices paid for malting barley to be taken away from them because so 
much of the home-grown barley was unfit for malting. 
It was clearly shown that by use of the proper varieties of barley, 
coupled with good growing conditions and cultural practices, that bar¬ 
ley suitable for the maltster, which brings a higher price, can be easily 
grown. 
Malting barley should be mellow and not hard or flinty—to bring 
this about, the grain should be allowed to ripen thoroughly. Malting 
barley should be plump and heavy and must be free of diseases and 
of mixtures such as wheat or oats. 
Buckwheat makes an excellent catch crop, or it may be sown after 
harvesting winter wheat or rye. It is also good to sow on newly broken 
ground, but its greatest value lies in the fact that it is the best and 
surest means of getting rid of quack grass. 
JAPANESE -Large kerneled, dark brown, and early. It is very 
productive, and an excellent feed for cattle and hogs. Sow from June 
1 to July 1, at the rate of 3 pecks to the acre. 
SILVER HULL -A popular thin shelled buckwheat, with silvery 
grey kernels of medium size, very sound. Silver Hull is a prolific grow¬ 
er and heavy yielder, and makes first class buckwheat flour. Excellent 
for bees. 
MIXED BUCKWHEAT -For a cheap catch crop; also makes ex¬ 
cellent feed. 
A uniform size kernel is necessary, and in order to obtain these 
qualities, the grower should know that his seed is dependable. 
At these meetings it was pointed out that pure seed of malting 
barleys was relatively scarce and insufficient for the acreage to be 
seeded in 1934. Those buying seed should be careful, inasmuch as 
much seed throughout the state is badly mixed with other varieties of 
barley and with oats in particular. It pays to buy certified recom¬ 
mended varieties—outstanding of which are, Wisconsin Pedigree No. 
38 and Velvet Barley. 
It was emphasized that this is no time to increase barley acreage, 
but rather to improve the quality of the barley grown for market. 
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SPELTZ OR EMMER 
A valuable grain belonging to the wheat family. Kernels are tightly 
enclosed in hulls which adhere at threshing. Speltz has a feeding value 
equal to oats, and only slightly less than barley and corn. It is ex¬ 
tremely rust resistant, and will not lodge like other grains, because ot 
its stiff heavy straw. Speltz can be grown on many kinds of soil, rich 
or poor, throughout Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas. 
Speltz makes wonderful feed and is especially fine for hogs and poultry. 
Sow 1 x /£-2 bushels per acre, adjusting the drill the same as for oats. 
See Blue Figure Price List. 
