EXPERIMENTS WITH EMMER, SPELT, AND EINKORN. 
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RESULTS AT McPHERSON, KANS. 
Experiments with emmer, spelt, and einkorn were in progress at 
McPherson, Kans., from 1905 to 1909. The data, obtained coopera- 
tively by the Office of Cereal Investigations and the Kansas Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station, were published in 1912 by Cory (H). 
The yields are given in Table 8. 
Spring emmer and einkorn produced low yields. Black Winter 
emmer and Red Winter spelt yielded more than winter barley, but 
less than spring barley and spring oats. Winter wheat is the leading 
small-grain crop at McPherson, and its yields, which are not shown, 
are higher than the yields of any of the grains which are given in 
Table 8. 
Table 8. — Yields of three varieties of emmer, one of spelt, four of einkorn, two of barley, 
and one of oats grown at McPherson, Kans., in the 5-year period from 1905 to 1909, 
inclusive. 
[Data obtained in cooperation with the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station.] 
Crop and variety 
Emmer: 
Black Winter 
Ufa 
Vernal (White Sprirjg), 
Spelt: 
Red Winter 
Einkorn: 
Common (winter) 
Do 
Do 
Double (spring) 
Barley: 
Tennessee Winter 
White Smyrna (spring) 
Oats: 
Sixty-Day 
C.I. 
No. 
2337 
1527 
1522 
1772 
1781 
2226 
2433 
1780 
257 
195 
165 
Yields per acre (pounds). 
1905 
835 
237 
414 
336 
1906 
864 
1,358 
1,081 
1,332 
732 
924 
1,044 
1,050 
1,575 
2,430 
1,392 
1907 
778 
39 
54 
890 
216 
486 
114 
345 
658 
158 
150 
Average. 
1908 
1,925 j 1,180 
186 ! 
159 
1906 to 
1908. 
1,500 
852 
i,"029' 
998 
1,070 
1,568 
] , 345 
319 
379 
1,060 ! 1,207 
794 
79i" 
538 1,077 
1,094 1,219 
1,696 i 1,037 
1905 to 
1909. 
1,137 
1,103 
927 
1,222 
1,177 
RESULTS AT MANHATTAN. KANS. 
The experiments at Manhattan, Kans., were conducted independ- 
ently by the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station. The yields 
of emmer and spelt have been published in part by Ten Eyck (61), 
TenEyck and Shoesmith (62 p. 184), and in bulletins of the Kansas 
station. The yields obtained are shown in Table 9. The annual 
yields- not given in the above-mentioned bulletins were furnished 
by courtesy of Prof. S. C. Salmon, in charge of farm-crop production 
at the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station. 
Vernal (White Spring) emmer was grown at Manhattan from 1903 
to 1909, inclusive. Black Winter emmer and a variety of winter 
spelt also were grown at Manhattan, but for shorter periods. The 
yields of emmer and spelt, in comparison with barley and oats, are 
shown in Table 9. 6oth winter and spring barley and spring 
oats produced higher average yields than the spring emmer. Winter 
emmer produced fair yields in 1908, but this crop usually is not 
sufficiently winter hardy for growing at Manhattan. 
