BARLEY 
39 
College Farm, an average of over a ton of grain per acre. 
Bald barley has proved the best to grow in the 
mountains for grain or hay. 
Analysis of barley shows that both the common 
barley and the bald barley contain about the same amount 
of total animal food; that this amount is closely equiva- 
lent to the food material in wheat or corn, and more 
than in either bran or oats. 
Barley contains about the same elements to produce 
growth of bones and muscles in young animals as wheat, 
and more than in corn. 
Bald barley contains more bone and muscle produc- 
ing food than common barley. 
For the production of fat in fully grown animals, 
analysis shows bald barley, common barley, wheat and 
corn to be practically equivalent. 
Barley has been tested at the College Farm as feed 
for pigs, steers, and sheep. 
Ground common barley and whole corn, fed in mod- 
erate weather to pigs of a hundred pounds or more in 
weight, have produced the same amount of growth. 
Fed to Young Growing Figs in Winter in Open Fens: 
1. Ground bald barley has done one-half better than 
whole bald barley. 
2 . Ground corn has done one-fifth better than whole 
corn. 
3. Ground common barley has done one-twelfth 
better than whole common barley. 
4. Whole bald barley gave better results than whole 
corn as did also whole common barley. 
5. Ground bald barley made the most rapid growth 
of any of the feeds used and produced this growth on the 
least food. One pound of growth was made with 3.6 
pounds of grain and 0.8 quarts of skimmilk at a cost of 
2.2 cents for the food. 
6. Ground corn required one-half more food than 
ground bald barley to make a pound of growth. 
7. Ground corn and ground common barley had 
about the same feeding value, with the slight difference 
in favor of barley. 
8. Ground common barley required one-third more 
food for each pound of growth than ground bald barley. 
