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regions where this seed has been kept pure and grown “above ditch.” 
The sub-stations in Nebraska and Kansas located in the west¬ 
ern portions of these states can aid our eastern Colorado farmers 
to obtain seed and the Monticello sub-station farm in Utah will 
help our western Colorado farmers to obtain seed wheat, while the 
writer will also assist anyone desiring this wheat, to obtain as good 
seed as possible, grown under drouth resistant conditions. 
Any winter wheat which has good milling quality and shows 
drouth resisting power, adapted to the region where grown, can 
and should be developed by wise seed selection and careful culture 
treatment. 
All semi-arid wheat should be harrowed or run over with a 
weeder to break up the crust which may form, and thus check too 
rapid evaporation. Wheat can thus be advantageously cultivated 
until it is knee high. Often seeding rows sixteen instead of eight 
inches apart (stop up every other hole in the drill) is advantageous. 
Then one can use a beet cultivator or other small toothed cultivator 
and cultivate the crop, keeping the ground well stirred. 
Cultivating grain in the semi-arid region lessens evaporation 
and thereby holds more moisture for the growing crop. 
4. Barley .—This grain has not been generally sown as a 
drouth resisting crop. Bald barleys can be grown in the higher 
altitudes and in the northern and north central portions of the 
state, with a fair degree of success. Bald barley when ripe has a 
very hard kernel and most feeders find it best to crush or grind it 
before feeding to stock. Cut in the soft dough or before ripening, 
it is fed in the straw without threshing. A bearded feed barley is 
grown in some sections of the state. Obtain seed grown on non- 
irrigated lands. 
5. Emmer. This grain belongs to the wheat group and is 
sometimes called speltz by our farmers. Both emmer and speltz 
have a hull which clings to the kernel and does not come off when 
threshed. 
Speltz and emmer differ in size of head and arrangement of 
spiklets on the spike or head. Emmer is the more preferable grain 
of the two for our conditions. This is a spring grain and should 
be seeded the same as barley. It is used as a feed grain for nearly 
all kinds of stock. It is being grown more extensively in the 
South Platte and on The Divide east of Colorado Springs, than in 
any other portion of the state. 
6. Oats . This grain is not well adapted for non-irrigated 
lands. Only the earlier maturing types should be grown. It is 
often sown for a hay crop in eastern Colorado and in higher alti¬ 
tudes above the ditches. 
