. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 826 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. 5tl5. 0//)o/.i«>/f(/there are two sorts, pearl and Scotch; both are produced by
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 826 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. 5tl5. 0//)o/.i«>/f(/there are two sorts, pearl and Scotch; both are produced by grinding off the husk, and the pearl barley is produced by carrying the operation so far as to produce roundness in the kernel. It is used in soups, gruels, and medicinal drinks. S116. Barley mcut is ground like oatmeal or flour ; the coarser sort, with the bran, is used for fattening livestock, especially pigs and poultry ; but fine bolted barley flour, made into a thin pottage or pudding, and spread out in thick cakes, and toasted on a hot plate of metal, forms a light breakfast bread, much esteemed in some parts of Scotland. It is served in a recent state, hot, and spread with butter and honey, and eaten in several folds. Two parts of barley flour, one of wheat flour, and one of rye, are said to make a light and very agreeable loaf of bread. 5117. The produce vf barley injlour is 12lbs. to 14lbs. of grain. Sir H. Davy found 1000 parts of liarley meal to afford 920 parts of soluble or nutritious matter ; viz. 790 of mucilage or starch, 70 of sugar, and GO of gluten. 5118. Barley straw is chiefly used for litter and packing ; it is unfit for thatch or rope- making, and of little value as fodder. 5119. The diseases of barley are few, and chiefly smut, but of quite a different species from tliat which affects the wheat, and one which it is found cannot be prevented by pickling and liming. Sect. IV. The Oat. — Avena satlva L. ; Tridndria Digy7iia L., and Graminece J. UAvoine
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