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...Barley & Rice. Anyone can (and millions did, during Prohibition) brew a batch of beer. But its uniform mass production is a highly technical manufacturing process. At Anheuser-Busch, the brewmasters claim that Budweiser and its higher-priced companion beer Michelob (sold only on draught) have only the finest ingredients, e.g., imported hops, rice instead of oily corn grits, and two-row "Hannchen" barley, whose two rows of kernels in the head are bigger, more even, and contain more starch and less moisture than the more prevalent six-row barley kernels...
From start to finish, the brew, made in relatively small 630-bbl. batches, is constantly checked for taste and uniformity. As the ground-up barley and rice are boiled, the hops and yeast are added to ferment the beer and give it its characteristic, slightly bitter tang. Both temperature and time must be controlled to the minute. The immense lagering cellars, where the fermentation goes on for 21 days, must be airtight to keep out all airborne bacteria. Finally, Anheuser-Busch treats its beer with a time-honored process that no other major national brewer uses. In glass-lined tanks...
FARM PRODUCTION for 1954 will be the fifth biggest in history despite drought and strict planting controls, says the U.S. Agriculture Department. Although corn, cotton, and wheat are all down, big gains in lesser crops (oats, barley, rye, etc.) will push the totals to well over 100% of the high 1947-49 average...
...bumper legislative crop. With the farm-bloc diehards thus shaken, George Aiken moved in to score a clean sweep on other provisions of the bill. In fast succession, the Senate beat away the chaff of demands for 1) increasing price supports on soybeans and feed grains (oats, rye, barley, grain sorghums), 2) imposing cattle supports at a rigid 80% of parity, and 3) pegging dairy supports at 80% instead of the 75% set by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson...
...Perrot could form a pretty good idea of the lives and customs of the pre-Abraham Horites. They were farmers who got water from the bed of a nearby wadi and stored it in underground cisterns. They had sheep, cattle and dogs, but no horses or asses. They grew barley, wheat, lentils and peas. Two of their barley varieties are still grown today, but their wheat is a novel type not found even in ancient Egypt. The harvested grain was stored in underground chambers or in massive earthenware jars for current...