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FUNDAMENTALS OF AGRICULTURE. 



number of hybrids. The beardless varieties now 

 cultivated bear a trifurcate appendage, the central 

 portion of which is hooded. The new variety is en- 

 tirely free from any form of appendage." 



Barley, in addition to being classified as two, four 

 and six-rowed is farther classed as winter and spring. 



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BEARDLESS BARLEY DEVELOPED BY THE U. S. DEPARTMENT OF 

 AGRICULTURE. 



a. Side view of head of new awnless body; b, separate grains and a spikelet of the 

 same; c, front view of the head of same barley; d, separate grains and spikelet of 

 hooded barley; e, head of hooded barley. 



As with wheat, spring barley may be converted into 

 winter or winter barley into spring. The barley 

 grain, like that of the oats, remains enclosed in the 

 hull (flowering glume and palea) after threshing. 

 When this hull is removed the kernel resembles that 

 of wheat. Barley is a cereal that has been given at- 

 tention with a view to improvement, second only to 



