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THE SMALL GRAINS 



130. Southern or Winter barley district. The barley 

 crop in the southern states is exceedingly small, and from 

 the standpoint of production alone the area would not 

 be included as a barley district. There are two facts, 

 however, that make it an area of some importance in 

 this connection : (1) The barley acreage is rapidly in- 



FIG. 47. Tennessee winter barley at the Maryland Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, College Park. 



creasing very recently, and properly so, because of the 

 use of barley in feeding live-stock, to which increased 

 attention is also being given. (2) The adaptation is 

 wholly for winter varieties, a condition making it con- 

 siderably different from the Northeastern district. The 

 district includes Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Ken- 

 tucky, the Ohio River Valley, southern Missouri, and all 

 the remaining southern states southward to and includ- 



