German composition

Section 54 Barley (S. 3, N. 2)

Barley is (S. 2, N. 1) now principally used⁠6 to make⁠1 malt for⁠2 brewing beer and distilling spirits. It serves, however⁠3, as food⁠4 in the form of pearl barley, used⁠5 for thickening soups. It is also used⁠6 as food for poultry. Barley⁠7 meal is used for fattening pigs and turkeys. Barley straw furnishes us fodder⁠8 for cattle and horses. Barley is chiefly produced⁠9 in the northern regions of Europe, in Central Asia, and in North America. It is much hardier⁠10 than wheat, resists⁠11 both heat and drought better, and⁠12 may therefore be raised from poorer soils. It⁠13 is said to be the most ancient food⁠4 of (S. 3, N. 2) man.—Nelson’s Readers.

Notes

1 bereiten, see S. 19, N. 7.

2 for — spirits, zur Bierbrauerei und Branntweinbrennerei, after which supply daraus.

3 indessen.

4 Nahrungsmittel, n.

5 Say ‘which one uses for thickening soups’, zur Verdickung der Suppen.

6 benutzen and gebrauchen, which use alternately; as — poultry, als Hühnerfutter.

7 Say ‘With barley meal one fattens (mästen) pigs and turkeys (türkische Hühner)’.

8 Vieh-und Pferdefutter.

9 gebaut. Where must the p. p. be placed here?

10 kräftig.

11 ‘to resist’ here = to bear, vertragen. Use the def. art. before the first noun.

12 Say ‘and can therefore be cultivated (an´bauen) upon poorer soil’. Supply the adverb auch after ‘therefore’.

13 It is said to be, sie soll... sein. The verb sollen is frequently used to express an assertion of another person, when it answers to the English ‘it is said’, ‘it is reported’, ‘they say’.