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commonly grown, such as the hull-less six-rowed beardless, 

 the hulled six-rowed hooded, the hull-less two-rowed bearded, 

 and the hulled two-rowed hooded. 



244. Leading Varieties. The type which is generally 

 grown in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and the Dakotas, 

 the area of largest production, is the common, or hulled six- 

 rowed bearded, the most popular varieties being Manchuria 

 and Oderbrucker. This type is also grown in New York 

 and the other Eastern states. The most common varieties 

 in California are the Bay Brewing and the California Feed. 

 In the Rocky Mountain region, particularly at high altitudes, 

 the hooded hull-less type is most prevalent, though some 

 hooded hulled barley is grown. Varietal names in the 

 hull-less barlej^s are largely based on the color of the grain 

 as White Hull-less and Black Hull-less. This type of barley 

 weighs 60 pounds to the bushel, while the legal weight of a 

 bushel of hulled, or common, barley is established at only 

 48 pounds in most of the states. 



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245. World Production. The production of barley, like 

 that of wheat and oats, is largely confined to the North 

 Temperate zone. The total production of the world is 

 about 1,500,000,000 bushels as compared with about 4,000,- 

 000,000 bushels each of corn, wheat, and oats. The leading 

 country in barley production is European Russia, with an 

 average annual yield of 452,719,000 bushels for the five years 

 from 1910 to 1914. This is nearly one third of the total 

 production of the world. Other countries in which the pro- 

 duction is large are the United States, with 186,000,000 

 bushels annually; Germany, 153,000,000 bushels; Austria- 

 Hungary, 148,000,000 bushels; Japan, 94,000,000 bushels; 

 Spain, 73,000,000 bushels; Great Britain and Ireland, 64,000,- 

 000 bushels; France, 47,000,000 bushels; and Canada, 44,000,- 

 000 bushels. 



