Cultivation and utilization of barley
By: Harry V. Harlan
Series: Farmers' bulletin / United States Department of Agriculture -- no. 968; Farmers' bulletin (United States. Department of Agriculture) -- no. 968
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Published: 1918
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
Subjects: Barley
Description: Barley should be more widely grown in the Northern and Western states. It is a protection to our grain supply, as it produces a good, nongultinous flour and can be milled by wheatmills with little change of machinery. It is an excellent grain feed for stock, being almost the equal to corn. It, however, competes with corn in few places, as it is mostly grown outside the limits of profitable corn culture. It produces more pounds to the acre than oats or wheat. If necessary, it can be seeded later than spring wheat, and hence interferes little with wheat acreage in the spring-wheat region. It supplies the needed grain feed necessary for the increase of livestock, which sometime must come with diversified farming in the areas where grain farming is now the only enterprise. The best lands for barley are well-drained soils that are not sandy. The best returns are obtained from early seeding. The best methods of preparation are fall plowing in the humid-spring region, disked corn ground in the Great Plains, and summer fallow in sections where the crop is winter seeded. The best method of seeding is with a drill, and the best method of harvesting is with a binder. The grain should not be thrashed to close, as broken kernels lower the market value. The best yielding varieties are Tennessee Winter in the humid-winter region, Manchuria and Oderbrucker in the humid-spring region, and Coast, Hanchen, Mariout, White Smyrna, Chevalier, and Trebi in the arid region."--Page 2.
Notes: Cover title.

"Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Increasing the acreage of barley; title: Barley regions; title: Economics of barley growing; title: Farms and soils where barley should be grown; title: The place of barley in the rotation; title: Manures and fertilizers; title: Good seed; title: Preparation of the soil; title: Date of seeding; title: Rate of seeding; title: Depth of seeding; title: Method of seeding; title: Time of harvesting; title: Methods of harvesting; title: Shocking, stacking and thrashing; title: Cost of producing barley; title: Uses of barley in manufactories; title: Stock feed; title: Feeding barley; title: Pasturing barley; title: Varietal regions; title: Varietal areas; title: What variety to grow; title: Where to procure seed; title: Diseases.