BARLEY 
■crop. The heads ripen and turn downward, while the 
istraw remains upright. Later the oats shoot far above 
the barley and make a crop that is apparently not 
lessened by the presence of the barley. The double crop 
is harvested when the oats are fully matured. A large 
field grown to hulless barley in 1893 and sown to oats in 
.1894 without additional seeding of barley, yielded 48 
Ibushels per acre of the mixed grain, weighing 47 pounds 
]per bushel or 2,256 pounds of grain per acre. Treated in 
this way, some of the barley shells out and reseeds the 
tground. These grains live over winter, and, if the land 
is to be kept in oats for several years ^in succession, once 
seeding with barley is sufficient. On account of this fact, 
wheat should never be grown after hulless barley, if it is 
expected to use the wheat for flour. Hulless barley can 
be gotten rid of by planting the land to a hoed crop or 
to alfalfa. The seeds of hulless barley are so heavy that 
.they do not spread in ditch water as do those of wild oats. 
