. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. 202 BARLEY BARLEY BARLEY. Hordcum sativum, Jessen. GraminccB. -94. By R. A. Moore. An annual cereal grain, supposed to be native of western Asia, and cultivated from the earliest times. It is grown for the grain and herbage, the f grain being used as food for live-stock, but chiefly in the making of malt for beer. Flowers perfect, the stamens 3, styles 2, arranged in spikelets
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. 202 BARLEY BARLEY BARLEY. Hordcum sativum, Jessen. GraminccB. -94. By R. A. Moore. An annual cereal grain, supposed to be native of western Asia, and cultivated from the earliest times. It is grown for the grain and herbage, the f grain being used as food for live-stock, but chiefly in the making of malt for beer. Flowers perfect, the stamens 3, styles 2, arranged in spikelets that are borne 2 to 6 on notches or nodes of the rachis and form- ing a long head or spike; flowering glumes 5-nerved, one of them usually long-awned, usually persisting about the grain as a hull; empty glumes very narrow and surrounding the spikelet. Barley was very widely grown before the Christian era and was used largely as food for human consumption. Its use as a bread plant was universal throughout the civilized countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, down to the close of the fifteenth century. It gradually gave way to the bet- ter grains for bread-making, and is now, and will henceforth probably be used mostly as an animal food and for brewing purposes. The inhabitants of the European and Asiatic countries used barley rather generally as a food for horses, and the practice is common at present in several of those regions. According to the Twelfth Cen- sus there were in the United States 272,913 farms reported as pro- ducing barley in 1899. They de- voted to the crop 4,470,196 acres, and secured a production of 119,- 634,877 bushels, valued at $41,631,762. The four states giving the highest production are, in order, California, Minnesota, North Dakota and Wiscon- sin. According to the Fourth Census of Canada (1901), there were in the Dominion, 871,800 acres in barley, which produced 22,224,366 bushels. Varieties. For all practical purposes, barley may be classi- fied as six
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