. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. BARLEY BARLEY 203. Fig. 290. Three spikelets a t joint of rachis, a characteris- tic common to the six-rowed barleys. America from southern California and eastward to tlie Copper River Experiment Station farm in .Alaska. Wliile barley can be raised on a wide range of soils, it grows best and yields the most marketable grain when grown on old, well-subdued lands, where the plant-food is readily obtain- able. Barley is an early-maturing cereal, and the root growth is shorter and less abundant than that of oats or wheat; consequently, it is n
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. BARLEY BARLEY 203. Fig. 290. Three spikelets a t joint of rachis, a characteris- tic common to the six-rowed barleys. America from southern California and eastward to tlie Copper River Experiment Station farm in .Alaska. Wliile barley can be raised on a wide range of soils, it grows best and yields the most marketable grain when grown on old, well-subdued lands, where the plant-food is readily obtain- able. Barley is an early-maturing cereal, and the root growth is shorter and less abundant than that of oats or wheat; consequently, it is necessary to sow it on land that is in a high state of fertility and cultivation. A rich clay loam seems to be preferable. It is easily injured while the plants are young by an overabundance of moisture, and, therefore, should not be sown on land that is soggy, or where the water-line is too near the surface. Rotation. — Barley should be grown in rotation, and not con- tinuously on the same land. When corn is one of the crops, a good rotation is corn on land that the previ- ous year had been in hay or pasture, and barley to follow corn, at which time the land should be seeded to clover and timothy, or clover and blue- grass. One or two crops of clover can be cut the year following barley, and the land can be used for pas- ture or hay-land the year following clover. The land may be ma- nured to advantage at any time after the clover is secured, pref- erably the following fall and winter. By running a tine-tooth harrow over the grass- land in the spring, the manure will be dis- tributed evenly, and the fine roots of the various grasses will hold the fertility near the surface, where it can be utilized to a certain by the grasses and subse- quently by the follow- ing corn and barley Fig. 291. French Chevalier bar- "°P«- T^''/''°7'' '^ ley. astandardtwo-rowedva- recommended when a riety. Lower clipped regular four years' ro- to show .irr;ingement nr ker- .
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