EXPERIMENTS WITH EMMER, SPELT, AND EINKORN. 
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RESULTS AT JIREH, WYO. 
The conditions at Jireh, Wyo., are very similar to those at Archer. 
The experiments were conducted independently by the State. The 
yields shown in Table 29 were taken from the report of the State 
cooperative experiment farms (34-) • The data are rather incomplete, 
but they show the yields of spring emmer and oats for three years and 
of barley for one year. Vernal emmer produced an average yield of 
740 pounds per acre in comparison with 981 pounds of Kherson oats. 
Hannchen barley outyielded both emmer and oats by a considerable 
margin in 1915, the only year in which yields of barley were reported. 
Black Winter emmer was sown, but winterkilled each year. 
Table 29. — Yields of one variety each oj spring emmer, barley, and oats grown at the 
State experiment farm, Jireh, Wyo., in 1915, 1916, and 1918. 
[Data compiled from report of the State Board of Farm Commissioners, Cheyenne, Wyo. (34).] 
Crop and variety. 
Yields per acre (pounds). 
1915 
1916 
1918 
440 
640 ' 
Average. 
Emmer: Vernal (White Spring) 
1,220 
2,496 
1,535 
560 
768' 
740 
Barley: Hannchen ". . . . T 
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RESULTS AT SHERIDAN, WYO. 
Comparable results obtained at Sheridan, Wyo, in 1915 by the 
Wyoming State Board of Farm Commissioners were published in the 
report of the State cooperative experiment farms for 1915 (34) ■ 
Vernal emmer yielded 880 pounds per acre, while Beardless barley 
produced 2,016 pounds and Kherson oats produced 1,600 pounds. 
RESULTS AT HIGHMORE, S. DAK. 
Experiments with emmer were begun at Highmore, S. Dak., in 
1903. The data were obtained cooperatively by the Office of Cereal 
Investigations and the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station. 
Average yields of emmer at Highmore were published by Champlir 
and Morrison (10) in South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station 
Bulletin No. 179. Vernal emmer was grown during the entire 16- 
year period from 1903 to 1918, with an average yield of 1,230 pounds 
per acre, as shown in Table 30. During the same period White 
Smyrna barley yielded 1,223 pounds and Sixty-Day oats 1,235 
pounds per acre. The average yields of the three crops are nearly 
identical. Emmer appears to be best adapted to conditions similar 
to those at Highmore. When feeding values are considered, emmer 
is a less valuable crop than barley but is superior to oats. As emmer 
outyields both barley and oats in some years, it may be desirable to 
include it in the rotation and thus spread the crop risks, but on the 
w r hole it is less satisfactory than barley. 
Of the other varieties of emmer which were grown for a part of the 
period, the Yaroslav yielded less and the Khapli slightly more than 
the Vernal. Black Winter emmer. although sown in several years, 
