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The panicles are not large, but they produce large plump kernels, 
yellowish red to light brown in color. The kernels are awned and 
bear basal bristles. While the variety possesses considerable rust 
resistance, this character is not important in the interior valleys 
where rust infection usually is very light. 
FULGHUil, 
Fulghum is a comparatively new variety which appears to be well 
adapted to parts of the winter-oat belt of the Southern States and the 
southern and southwestern portions of the spring-oat sections. In 
Kansas a strain called Kanota appears to be of unusual promise. 
In the Sacramento Valley of California Fulghum matures from six to 
eight days earlier than Red Rustproof and in view of its high yield- 
ing capacity should prove valuable there, where earliness is a par- 
ticularly important factor. 
Fulghum is slightly taller than Red Rustproof and has stiff and 
moderately coarse culms tinged with red and bearing numerous wide 
leaves. The panicles are midsized with rather short branches, 
which makes them appear very erect. The kernels are somewhat 
smaller than those of Red Rustproof and usually are free from the 
awns and basal hairs found in that variety. The color of the kernel 
of Fulghum is a light yellowish brown. 
MISCELLANEOUS EXPERIMENTS AND NOTES. 
Under this heading are presented the results of limited experiments 
and observations on emmer and spelt, flax, grain sorghums, and the 
best dates for seeding cereals. 
Emmer and Spelt. 
Emmer and spelt probably will never have much economic impor- 
tance in the Sacramento Valley. They are not well adapted to the 
k climate, it is often difficult to secure a stand, and their production 
usually is lighter than that of the more valuable grain crops, such as 
barley and wheat. 
Three lots of emmer and one variety of winter spelt were grown in 
plats in 1911, 1913, and 1914. Annual and average acre yields in 
pounds are given in Table 14. These yields are light, as they rep- 
resent the weight of the kernels wholly or mostly still inclosed in the 
hulls' after threshing. In 1911 the varieties were grown on single 
1/40-acre plats, in 1913 on single 1/25-acre plats, and in 1914 on single 
1/50-acre plats. 
Table 14. — Yields of four varieties of spelt and emmer at the Plant Introduction Station, 
Chico, Calif., for one or more of the three years 1911, 1913, and 1914. 
Crup and variety. 
Black Winter emmer 
Emmer (from Abyssinia) . 
Do ; 
Red Winter spelt 
C I. No. 
Yield per acre (pounds). 
1911 
1913 
1914 
Average. 
2337 
2510-1 
2510-2 
1772 
3,4S0 
1,960 
2,120 
i 1,625 
i 1,070 
1,000 
910 

2,058 
1,480 
1,515 
3,520 
1,900 
2,710 
1 Average of two plats. 
