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BULLETIN 1191, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
emmer. The average yields from all dates of seeding of the eninier. 
barley, and oats, together with additional yields in 1907 and 1908, 
are shown in Table 27. 
The average yield of Vernal (White Spring) emmer during the 
entire period was 699 pounds per acre, in comparison with 1.103 
poimds of barley and 899 pounds of oats. Black Winter emmer was 
sown several years and was occasionally successful, but during most 
winters it was partly or entirely winterkilled. 
Table 27. — Yields of one variety each of spring emmer, barley, and oats grown at North, 
Platte. Nebr., in the 12-year period from 1907 to 1918, inclusive. 
[ Data compiled from Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletins 11$. 135. and 17_ " ' 
Yields per acre (pounds). 
Crou and varietv. 
~ 190S : 1909 19101911 
Emmer: 
Vernal i White Spring >..-- 1. 718 
Barley: 
Manchuria 2, 226 
Oats: 
Kherson 1. 442 
2,024 
2.284 
2,044 
1.534 431 
1,858 630 
1,646 ;354 
1912 1913 1914 
66 142 
374 505 
149 282 
1915 1916 1917 1913 
Aver- 
1,488 414 167 103 
1.352 1,222 11,258 - S23 
1.419 1,288 687 S36 
1.103 
1 White Sinvrna barlev. 
RESULTS AT ARCHER, WYO. 
Both winter and spring emmer were grown at the Cheyenne field 
station, near Archer. Wyo., in the seven years from 1913 to 1919. 
inclusive. The experiments were conducted by the Office of Cereal 
Investigations in cooperation with the Wyoming State Board of 
Farm Commissioners and more recently with the Wyoming Agricul- 
tural Experiment Station. The yields, which have been published 
in part by Jones [21 ) . are given in Table 28. 
Vernal spring emmer yielded an average of 702 pounds per acre 
in comparison with 1.074 pounds of Hannchen barley and 893 pounds 
of Abundance oats. Black Winter emmer survived only two of the 
seven winters. 
Table 2S. — Yields of two varieties of emmer and one each of barley and oats grown at 
Archer, Wyo., in the 7-year period from 1913 to 1919, inclusive. 
[Data obtained in cooperation with the Wyoming State Board of Farm Commissioners.] 
C.I. 
No. 
Yieldi 
per acre (pounds). 
Crop and variety. 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
191S 
1919 
Aver- 
age. 
Emmer: 
2.337 
1, 524 
731 
454 
230 
461 
240 

429 
76$ 
650 
173 
864 
1,(337 
1,676 

346 
379 ; 
224 

1, 175 
1.387 
1,161 

1,600 
2,702 
2, 175 

269 
1>2 
125 
90 
Vernal ( White Spring).. 
Barley: 
Hannchen 
Oats: 
Abundance 
702 
1,074 
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