2^ FODDER IN INDIA. 



fermentation in the stack and spoil your oat-hay, with 

 possibilities of a bonfire. 

 Barley — Known as Jau ; there are several varieties but 

 differently to oats they will any one of them probably 

 grow in any place suitable to barley, but as we are 

 considering the crop as one for fodder more than 

 grain the "beardless" varieties of barley are the best. 

 Test your seed and wash in formalin (see oats). Barley 

 will do quite well in a light soil not over-heavily 

 manured ; in making this statement the writer means 

 that where in these circumstances barley will yield a 

 reasonable crop, oats will fail and wheat do little better- 

 prepare the land as for oats but fewer ploughings will 

 do if handicapped for time. Barley may be sown from 

 the end of October until December, the writer has sown 

 on Christmas Eve and known of sowings in early 

 January ! However, it can wait till the last oats and 

 wheat first in the order written and depending on 

 the ploughings as soon as you like , after October 7th ; 

 barley grows fast and ripens early and with fair 

 rain will do well sown late, but all the same we are 

 out for "straw" (i.e., Bhoosa) and this wants time 

 and rain, particularly rain ; sow about 100 lbs. of seed 

 ' per acre, and if mixed with wheat seed for cutting for 

 green issues 2 of barley to i of wheat. If cut in good 

 time {vide oats) makes quite useful hay for hard times, 

 barley in any form is essentially a horse's food: — 

 " Jau kachche, pakke, daddare, jo joban turiyan. " 

 Wheat — Known as gehun or kanak. There are very many 

 varieties, and the remarks above anent barley may apply 

 here with most of the varieties, some of them are more 

 fastidious. The treatment for smut does not always 

 succeed with wheat, but the cost of the process is not 

 great and worth trying. Test your seed sample before 

 buying. Plough the land for wheat as many as ten 

 times if possible before sowing, sow in early November 

 (after the oats) about 100 lbs. seed per acre ; wheat 



