HORDEUM HEXASTICHON. Linn.
Shair, ARAB.' Yoa of . . KANGRA, JAV.
Juvo , BENG. Soa, Jhotak, . . LADAKIL Mu-yau, . . . Bum/. Shiroka of . . . „ Thanzatt, Nai, . CHENAB. To-sa of . . . NEPAL. Jaw, jaws, . . „ Tro, Ne, of . . PANGRA.
Sa•too, . . DIM]. Situs-hooka, . . . Rus.
Ijoeir, . . . EGYPT. Clink of . SUTLEJ, SW. Krithe of Dioscorides, GR. Yava,Yavabiy-yamyuTEL. Shorch, . . . . IIEB. Pacbcha yava, Yavalu, „ Jao,. . IIIND., PERS.
Common or winter barley is grown in N. India. It is frequently cultivated as a cold-weather crop in the plains of the Panjab, as it requires less labour and gives more produce than wheat even in inferior soils, and where the water is deep below the surface. Above 8000 feet of elevation it is much more common than wheat, while at lower heights it is less grown. In Lahoul and Ladakh it is abundantly cultivated with Fagopyrum up to 13,000 feet in Ladakh. Some kinds of barley may be seen up to 14,000 feet about Hanle, near the Tsomoriri lake, and this is found in the Sutlej valley between Rampur and Sunguam at an eleva tion of highest limit 15,000 feet, and much culti vated. Barley is cultivated much in the same way
as wheat, but is ready for cutting somewhat sooner ; it is grown much on sailaba ' and barani ' lands. In the Panjab it is much less esteemed than wheat, and sells much cheaper, though it producei much more, and requires worse lands and less watering than wheat. The varieties arc Jau-desi (common country barley) and Jau paighambri. Ghoni jau is barley that has scarcely any husk at all, but only a fine skin. Barley is one of the cheapest of the grains found in the bazars of Kaira, in Gujerat.—Powell ; Cleg. Pang. Rep.; Stewart, p. 256 ; Eng. Cyc., qmoting Lowe's Elements of Agriculture, p. 238 ; Voigt.