Escourgeon
The escourgeon , also called Barley of winter to 6 rows, is an annual plant of the family of the Poaceae ( Gramineae ), cultivated like Céréale with straw. It is a barley subspecies, whose ears count six lines of grains. One says barley to six rows, in opposition to the barleys with two rows which can be spring or of winter.
This barley is especially employed in animal feeds, either in the form of grains, possibly crushed and incorporated in complete feedingstuffs, or in the form of Fourrage, the plant being cultivated like forages annual and mown before maturity.
The grains transformed into malt are also used in Brasserie, but less than the barley of spring, and especially to prepare Bière S of high fermentation.
Classified like a distinct species by Carl von Linné under the name of Hordeum hexastichon L., she is today regarded as a simple subspecies of the common barley Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare .
The barley with six rows was the variety of barley the most cultivated in the Antiquité. One found of them ears in the tombs of the Pharaons.
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In the republican Calendar, “escourgeon” was the name given to the 4th day of the month fructidor.
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