EXPERIMENTS WITH EMMER, SPELT, AND EINKORN. 
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RESULTS AT AMARILLO, TEX. 
The experiments at Amarillo, Tex., were conducted by the Office 
of Cereal Investigations in cooperation with the Amarillo Chamber 
of Commerce. The yields have been reported in part by Ross and 
Leidigh (35). Winter emmer and spelt were grown at Amarillo 
from 1906 to 1919, inclusive. During this period the average acre 
yield of Black Winter emmer was 418 pounds and of_ Red Winter 
spelt 461 pounds, as shown in Table 23. Tennessee Winter barley 
yielded an average of 660 pounds per acre during the same years. 
Because of the severe winter temperatures which are common in the 
Panhandle section of Texas, winter oats cannot be grown at Amarillo. 
Algerian spring oats, however, produced an average yield of 622 
pounds per acre. 
None of those crops has proved profitable at Amarillo because of 
drought, hot winds, and winterkilling. Winter wheat has been the 
most productive small grain at that station. Red Winter spelt is 
slightly hardier and more productive than Black Winter emmer, 
but neither of these crops is as productive as barley and oats. 
Table 23. — Yields of three varieties of emmer and one variety each of spelt, barley, and 
oats grown at the Amarillo Cereal Field Station, Amarillo, Tex., during the period 
from 1906 to 1919} 
[Data obtained in cooperation with the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce.] 
C.I. 
No. 
Yields per acre (pounds). 
Crop and variety. 
1906 
1907 
1908 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1919 
Aver- 
age. 
Emmer: 
Black Winter 
- 2337 
4483 
3331 
1772 
257 
286 
1, 135 
203 
340 
768 
570 

70 
603 
583 
238 
225 
120 
110 
370 
160 
451 
892 
80i 510 
80 720 
83 780. 
580 
1SK 
673 
603 
400 
428 
782 

753 
740 
418 
Do 
540 235 
590 330 
1,0201 95 
1,100 317 
796 227 
Buffum Black Win- 
ter 
Spelt: 
Red. Winter 
Barley: 
Tennessee Winter. . . 
Oats: 
Algerian 
1,243 
1,147 
502 
360 

563 
1,270 
1,080 
1,219 
o 

^70 
380 
149 
365 
520 
677 
573 
68 
470 
?46 

1,830 
1,328 
908 
1,234 
1,415 
461 
660 
622 
i Failure in 1918. 
RESULTS AT CHANNING, TEX. 
The experiments at Channing, Tex., were conducted by the Office 
of Cereal Investigations in cooperation with the Capitol Freehold 
Land & Investment Co. The yields given in Table 24 have been 
previously published by Ross and Leidigh {35). The conditions at 
Channing are very similar to those at Amarillo. The one variety of 
emmer, Black Winter, grown at Channing in 1905 and 1906 produced 
an average yield of 1,029 pounds per acre. Tennessee Winter barley 
yielded 1,054 pounds per acre and Burt spring oats 835 pounds per 
acre during the same period. In 1905, the only year grown, einkorn 
produced 207 pounds of grain per acre. As at Amarillo, winter wheat 
was the most profitable small-grain crop, and it produced more than 
either emmer, barley, or oats. 
