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six-rowed bearded hulled type, though almost any variety 

 will survive the winter in the milder portions of the South. 

 The cultivation of winter barley is mostly confined to the 



Figure 7.3. — Grains of six-rowed (on the left) and two-rowed (on the right) 

 barley. The grains in the lateral spikelets of six-rowed barley are com- 

 pressed as shown; there should be twice as many of these compressed 

 grains as of fully developed ones in a sample of this type. Note that 

 there are no compressed grains in the two-rowed barley. 



Southern and Pacific states. Most of the barley sown in 

 the spring in the Northern states is of the two-rowed and six- 

 rowed bearded hulled types; in the irrigated states in the 

 Rocky Mountain region the six-rowed bearded hull-less 

 is grown. There are other types, however, which are less 



