CHAPTER VIII. 



BARLEY .(Hordeum.) 



228. The native country is unknown. 



229. Barley is cultivated further north than any other of the 

 grains. In Europe, its northern limits are as follows : 



Orkney and Shetland Islands, Lat. 61 N. 



Faroe Islands, - &quot; 61 to 61 15 N. 



Western Lapland, - - &quot; 70 N. 



Russia (White Sea,) - &quot; 67 to 68 N. 



Archangel, - &quot; 68- N. 



Central Siberia, - - - &quot; 58 to 59 N. 



It cannot be grown in Iceland, lat. 63 30 to 66 N&quot;. 



In summer mean temperature, the northern limit varies be 

 tween 46 4 and 49 F., in the latter being injured by rains, 

 Its northern limit, in America, does not appear to have been as 

 certained. 



230. It is cultivated in the four quarters of the globe: in 

 Syria and Egypt for more than 3,000 years. 



231. It was introduced into the United States by Gosnold in 

 1602, and by colonists into Virginia in 1611. By the year 

 1648, it was raised in abundance in that colony, but it after/ 

 wards diminished in quantity. 



The annual amount of Barley grown in United States was, in 

 1840, 4,161,504 bushels; in 1850, 5,167,016 bushels. The 

 principal States that produce it are, (1850:) 



