. Field crops for the cotton-belt. Agriculture. six to eight inches long with barbed edges. At maturity, the flowering glume and palea usually adhere tightly to the kernel and are removed with diffi- culty. Therefore, the barley grain, like the oat grain, consists of the ker- nel, the palea and the flowering glume. These two latter parts are called the hull or husk. The barley kernel resembles very closely the wheat grain. The legal weight of a, bushel of barley grain is 48 pounds. The actual weight may vary from 45 to 50 pounds. 431. Composition. â Barley is recognized as a nutritious grain.
. Field crops for the cotton-belt. Agriculture. six to eight inches long with barbed edges. At maturity, the flowering glume and palea usually adhere tightly to the kernel and are removed with diffi- culty. Therefore, the barley grain, like the oat grain, consists of the ker- nel, the palea and the flowering glume. These two latter parts are called the hull or husk. The barley kernel resembles very closely the wheat grain. The legal weight of a, bushel of barley grain is 48 pounds. The actual weight may vary from 45 to 50 pounds. 431. Composition. â Barley is recognized as a nutritious grain. It is more carbonaceous than either wheat or oats. Hulled barley is very similar in composition to wheat. Ordinarily barley grain is higher than wheat in crude fiber on accoimt of the hull. Unlike oats, the hull of barley is so tough that it is necessary to grind the grain before feeding it to domestic animals. The composition of barley and its by-products as given in Henry's "Feeds and Feeding" is as follows: Q 13 Fig. 58. â A grain of 2-rowed barley; A, dorsal view; B, ven- tral Fig. 59. â'â High grade bap- ley grains with the glumes removed to show the embryo with its coUar,-like scutellum (s). The inner envelopes have been removed from the upper part of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Morgan, James Oscar. New York, The Macmillan company
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