EXPERIMENTS WITH EMMER, SPELT, AND EINKORN. 
45 
RESULTS AT CHICO, CALIF. 
The experiments at the Plant Introduction Garden, Chico, Calif., 
were conducted by the Office of Cereal Investigations in cooperation 
with the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, of the 
Bureau of Plant Industry. Emmer and spelt were grown three 
years at that station, as shown in Table 44. Black Winter emmer 
yielded more than Sixty-Day oats but less than Coast barley. The 
two selections of emmer from Abyssinia yielded less than the Black 
Winter variety. Ked Winter spelt yielded during two years nearly 
as well as the barley. Neither emmer nor spelt is as productive as 
barley in California. 
Table 44. — Yields of three varieties of emmer and one variety each of spelt, barley, and 
oats grown at Chico, Calif, in 1911, 1913, and 1914. 
[Data obtained in cooperation with the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction.] 
Crop and variety 
Emmer: 
Black Winter 
Abvssinian Selection 
'Do 
Spelt: 
Red Winter 
Barley: 
Coast 
Oats: 
. Sixty-Day 
Yields per acre (pounds). 
C.I.No. 
1911 
2337 i 
2510-1 : 
2510-2 
1772 
165 
3,480 
1,960 
2,120 
3,520 
3,182 
1,673 
1913 
1,625 
Average. 
1914 
1,070 
1,000 
910 
1911, 
1913, 
and 
1914. 
2,058 
1,900 
2,275 
1,385 
2,305 2,587 
1,254 1,437 
1911 
and 
1914. 
2,275 
1,480 
1,515 
1911 
and 
1913. 
2,553 
-j 2, 10 
2,744 I 2,729 
1,464 
1,529 
RESULTS AT NEPHI, UTAH. 
Experiments with emmer were begun at the Nephi, Utah, substa- 
tion in 1908 and were conducted cooperatively by the Office oi; 
Cereal Investigations and the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station 
until 1920. The results, which have been published in part by 
Cardon (6), are shown in Table 45. Black Winter emmer has 
outyielded both barley and oats at Nephi, but Red Winter spelt has 
produced still higher yields. Buffum Black Winter emmer was 
grown for five years and appeared to be identical with the ordinary 
Black Winter variety. The slight differences in yield between the 
two varieties are not considered as being significant. Winter wheat 
is the leading small-grain crop at Nephi and has produced consider- 
ably higher yields than either emmer or spelt. 
Table 45. — Yields of three varieties of emmer and one variety each of spelt, barley, and 
oats grown at Nephi, Utah, in all or part of the 13 years from 1908 to 1920, inclusive. 
[Data obtained in cooperation with the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station.] 
Crop and variety. 
C.I.No. 
Yields per acre (pounds). 
1908 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
Emmer: 
Black Winter 
2337 
3331 
1524 
1772 
257 
134 
1,322 
■ 
1,373 
1,024 
1,834 
816 
806 
160 
301 
1,958 
2,410 
Vernal (White Spring) 
Spelt: 
Red Winter 

Barley: 
Tennessee Winter 
792 
198 
1,180 
282 
197 
179 
48 
419 
2,443 
Oats: 
Swedish Select 
1,408 
490 
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