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BARLEY 
This is the series of tests where both grains are at- 
their best, and results confirm or are borne out by the 
chemical analyses, that bald barley is better adapted for 
producing growth than the common barley. Bald barley 
grew a pound of pork at a cost of 2.1 cents for the food 
eaten; while the common barley required 2.8 cents’ 
worth of food. 
Three more comparisons could be made between the 
mixture of ground corn and ground common barley, on 
the one side, and, on the other side, either ground bald 
barley or ground common barley, or the average of the 
results from ground corn and ground common barley 
fed separately. 
Without going into the details of these comparisons, 
it may be said that the mixture of corn and barley has 
done better than ground common barley, and not so well 
as ground bald barley. Feeding corn and barley together 
has produced a quarter more growth on about a fifth 
less food than feeding the two grains separately. 
FEEDING TESTS WITH STEERS. 
During the winter of 1895-96 a test was made of 
feeding barley to steers, with and without beets, in com- 
parison with corn and wheat. Some of the figures from 
this test have already been printed in Bulletin No. 34, 
of this Station. Only that part of the test will be 
mentioned here that refers to the feeding of barley. 
There were four pens of steers. A weighed quantity 
of hay was given each day, and the amount left weighed. 
The column headed “hay” in the table means the amount 
actually eaten. All the barley fed was common barley, 
and all the grains were ground before feeding. 
