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THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



Improved Winter Emmer. Head at right is the ordinary winter Emmer. This new form comes from a mutation or sport. 

 The three heads on left side of picture show the change that has occurred. A portion of the heads throw out additional spikelets 

 like a composite wheat. 



Emmer is an early form of wheat. There are two If it is threshed when very dry and brittle with a high" 

 large, plump kernals in each spikelet and the grain re- speed cylinder and all the concaves some of the kernels- 

 mains in the hull when threshed. The spikelets are large will shell out of the hulls. When separated from the 

 and closely arranged in the head. The head has no cen- hulls the grain will weigh a little heavier than wheat, but: 

 tral stem or rachis and the spikelets merely break apart, in the hull it weighs about the same per bushel as oats. 



