BARLEY 



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Harvesting. - - The grain should be quite ripe be- 

 fore it is cut. It is harvested with a self-binder and 

 threshed with the common grain-threshing machine. 

 Barley yields from thirty to forty bushels or more per 



FIELD OF RIPK BARLF.Y 



acre. Barley in the hull weighs about forty-eight 

 pounds per bushel. 



Uses. - - This plant is supposed to have come from 

 western Asia. For many hundreds of years, it was the 

 grain from which civilized man made his bread. In 



