84 BARLEY 



will often accompany the sweating process. This causes 

 deterioration in quality that can in no way be overcome 

 by subsequent treatment. 



Threshing. If the farmer has insufficient room in which 

 to store the sheaf barley, it is best to stack outside and 

 leave the barley in the stack at least a month before thresh- 

 ing. If the barley is stacked or drawn to the barn, the cap 

 sheaf bundles should be stored and threshed separately, as 

 much discolored grain will be found in these bundles and 

 this should not be mixed with other barley. Care should 

 be taken while threshing not to have the beards cut too 

 close to the kernel. If the kernel is exposed, it injures ger- 

 mination and favors the action of molds during the sprout- 

 ing process. 



Marketing the Crop. Barley serves as a ready money 

 crop for most growers and is usually put on the market soon 

 after threshing. It is not a good practice to put weather- 

 beaten or damaged barley on the market as the price will 

 be cut severely even though the feeding quality is but 

 slightly impaired. It is far better to use such injured 

 barley on the farm and secure both feeding and fertilizing 

 value from it. 



Farmers should grow but one variety of barley and that 

 of the very best. Varieties should not be mixed when 

 being put on the market either as seed or malting barley. 

 Different varieties of barley when placed on the malting 

 floor germinate at different periods of time. This causes a 

 loss and a corresponding reduction in price. The maltster 

 and the barley pearler desire a barley of one distinct type. 

 This should be uniform in quality and size of berry. 



Rotation. Barley should be grown in a three or four 

 years rotation where it follows corn, potatoes, peas, or root 



