134 Feeds and Feeding. 



confined almost wholly to the Pacific slope, where corn and oats 

 do not flourish in equal degree. The use of barley, most certainly 

 its lower grades, will become more common with our stockmen 

 when its value and special advantages are better known. The 

 table shows that digestible protein is higher in barley than in oats, 

 and considerably higher than in corn. The carbohydrates in this 

 grain exceed those in oats and fall below those in corn. Barley 

 has less oil than oats or corn. 



Eichardson l finds that barley from Dakota contains the largest 

 percentage of protein, while that from Oregon shows lowest. 

 In these particulars the record resembles that of wheat from 

 the same regions. According to the same author the hull of the 

 barley grain averages 15.22 per cent, of its total weight. There 

 are varieties of barley without beards and still others without 

 hulls, both grown to a limited extent in this country. Brewer 

 found a hull-less barley grown by the Pueblo Indians at Taos, 

 K. M., for bread making, which was very nutritious, carrying a 

 higher per cent, of protein than wheat. Cooke, of the Colorado 

 Station, 2 reports that hull-less barley yields profitable crops of 

 grain in the mountain parks of that state at an elevation of 7,000 

 feet. At higher altitudes it is cut for hay, yielding a roughage 

 containing sufficient nutriment to alone nourish hard-worked 

 horses. In feeding trials with pigs, hull-less barley gave better 

 returns than common barley or corn. The Arabs maintained 

 their horses almost exclusively on barley, the grain being admin- 

 istered unground. This grain is fed to the horse with excellent 

 results by the Berbers in northern Africa. 3 Pott 4 regards barley 

 as the best cereal for the horse, oats only excepted. 



Barley is a common feed for dairy cows in north Europe. The 

 Danes sow barley and oats together in the proportion of one part 

 of barley seed to two of oats. The mixed grain from this crop is 

 ground previous to feeding, and is regarded as the best for dairy 

 cows and other stock. Pott states that barley is beneficial in its 

 influence on the quality of milk and butter. This grain is 



i Bui. 9, Div. of Chem., U. S. Dept. Agr., 1886. 



* Bui. 40. 



Expt. Sta. Record, V, p. 626. 



4 Land w. Futterm., p. 399. 



