WHITE VARIETIES—Continued 
IOWA SILVER MINE. The Na» 
tional White Corn. A remarkable 
drought resister and under ad¬ 
verse conditions seems to pull 
through and make a crop where 
other varieties fail. Silver Mine is 
deep grained, pure white, rough- 
topped, with a small, white cob. 
Ears run from 9 to 12 inches long. 
ST. CHARLES WHITE. The St. 
Charles White is a pure variety of 
white corn set on a red cob, and 
this corn appears to make a finer 
and better grade for milling pur¬ 
poses and for corn meal than al¬ 
most any other sort. The ears are 
usually 8 to 10 inches long, 16 to 
18 rows of deep, broad kernels 
being rounding. The stalks grow 
7 to 8 feet high and have broad, 
succulent blades, thus making it 
very desirable for fodder or for en¬ 
silage purposes. 
IMPROVED HICKORY KING. 
Largest grains of any white vari¬ 
ety. Matures early and very pro¬ 
ductive. Ears set low, are of large 
size, well filled, very deep grained. 
Produces well, even on light land. 
RED VARIETIES 
BLOODY BUTCHER. (100 days.) 
A better drought resister than any 
other variety. Perfect shaped, long 
ears; grain is deep red, occasion¬ 
ally appearing with yellow tip. 
Type not entirely fixed. 
A NEW WINTER BARLEY 
The new barley has been named 
Missouri Early Beardless. It is a 
hooded type with no awns to inter¬ 
fere with feeding the straw or with 
feeding the grain off when it ma¬ 
tures, if that is desired or is ad¬ 
visable. Development of this Bar¬ 
ley offers several important advan¬ 
tages. It will permit production of 
twice the feed equivalent of corn 
on the medium lands. 
It comes off 5 weeks ahead of 
oats, 4 weeks ahead of winter 
wheat and at least 2 weeks ahead 
of ordinary varieties of Winter 
Barley. 
It matures early enough to plant 
the land back to soy beans for hay 
which will produce another feed 
equivalent of 25 to 30 bushels of 
corn in the same season. Barley 
may be seeded again after the soy 
beans are removed. 
Another advantage of the con¬ 
tinuous cropping is that the land 
is covered practically the year 
around. Chinch bugs are fond of 
barley, but this variety matures 
before the period of heavy infesta¬ 
tion and likewise before the cus¬ 
tomary summer drouth. Seeding 
should be done the last of Septem¬ 
ber or first part of October. The 
rate is about 1 y 2 to 2 bushels per 
acre. 
In a normal year it will be ready 
for pasture in about 4 weeks after 
seeding. 
Several reasons why Barley will 
not survive: Barley which was not 
pastured down, jointed and was 
frozen out. Another cause of fail¬ 
ure was too heavy grazing. Where 
Barley was eaten into the ground 
it did not survive. It should go 
into the winter with 3 inches of 
growth. On the other hand 7 
inches of growth at the beginning 
of winter will be fatal. 
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