B A R L V" 
From November 19 to April 6, pen No. 2, on bald 
barley, gains three pounds more than pen No. 1 on corn, 
and pen No. 10 on bald barley, gains one pound less than 
pen No, 7 on corn. The average results are, therefoi’e, 
nearly even, with a slight advantage in favor of bald bar- 
ley. It is well to notice here that, during this period, the 
larger and stronger lambs of pen No. 2 seemed better able 
to handle this rich bald barley than the smaller lambs of 
pen No. 10, gaining two pounds more on slightly less 
feed. The results indicate strongly the high feeding 
value of bald barley for lambs, but they just as strongly 
emphasize the great danger of overfeeding. It would be 
easy, from the figures already given, to construct a theory 
that the perfect feed would be bald barley at the beginn- 
ing and corn at the end. But, unfortunately for the theory, 
this is just what was tried with pen No. 4. The results 
up to April 6 are satisfactory, but the lambs did not re- 
spond to heavy feeding afterwards as those did that had 
received nothing but corn. 
It seems a fair conclusion from all the results that, 
while bald barley has as high a feeding value as corn, it is 
in no way superior to it. The comparison of bald barley 
and common barley is somewhat in favor of the bald bar- 
ley. The whole bald barley did decidedly better than 
the ground bald barley, not because it really had any 
more feeding value, but because it could not gather into a 
sticky mass and clog digestion as did the ground grain. 
As a fact, a large amount of the bald barley fed whole 
passed through the lambs undigested, and still they did 
better on it than on the ground corn, or ground corn and 
ground bald barley. 
SUMMARY. 
Good crops of barley can be grown in Colorado if 
good land is used and attention given to proper irriga- 
tion. 
Malting barley does well in Colorado, but most of 
the barley grown in the State is used for feeding pur- 
poses. 
On the average, bald barleys have not yielded as 
many pounds of grain, i. e., as much animal food per 
acre as some of the common barleys. 
California barley has given the best yields on the 
