BARLEY 



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There are three native varieties, viz. the common 4-row, 

 the ordinary 6-row and the Paphos 6-row barley, also 

 grown around Davlos in the north-east of the Island. 

 The last-named is heavier than the two former kinds. Little 

 success has attended the introduction by the Agricultural 

 Department of " Prize Prolific," " Gold Thorpe " and 

 41 Chevalier," which have been experimentally grown 

 for the last three years. They mature late and have not 

 resisted severe drought. Their yield is small compared 

 with native barleys, although this may improve when they 

 are fully acclimatised. 



Barley is the staple food for all kinds of animals, pigs 

 and poultry in Cyprus, and it is often used for bread- 

 making in years of wheat shortage. 



The tithe is mainly exported to England, where it has 

 a good name for malting purposes, especially that produced 

 in the Paphos district. It has failed to attain the place it 

 deserves on the English market owing to the high per- 

 centage of dirt, etc., it mostly contains. 



A sample of Cyprus barley examined at the Imperial 

 Institute in 1914 proved to be of good malting quality, 

 and similar material if marketed in commercial quantities 

 would be readily saleable in the United Kingdom (see 

 BULLETIN OF THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE, vol. xii. 1914, p. 

 552). 



A sample of naked or skinless barley from Cyprus has 

 also been reported on by the Imperial Institute. This 

 type of barley cannot be employed for malting for ordinary 

 brewing purposes, but it was considered that the Cyprus 

 material might be used by distillers (who only require 

 a partially malted barley), and in any case the sample 

 would rank as a good class feeding barley (ibid. vol. xiv, 

 1916, p. 159). 



The average annual production of barley, as shown 

 by the Blue Book returns, for the ten years ended 1913 

 was 2,449,285 kites. For later years the figures are : 



Year 

 1914 



IQI5 

 1916 



191? 

 I9l8 



Kite. 



1.957.944 

 1,912,316 

 1,953,628 

 2,508,880 

 3,080,710 



