Show WILD WELD EMMER EI MER WHEAT T MAY Y FURNiSH PLENTY OF BREAD If Professor Irot B B. C C. Buffum of VorI Worland Worland Wor- Wor I land nd Wyo had begun his experiments with emmer wheat earlier and had he received more assistance from American American Ameri Ameri- can agricultural ral officials and colleges it is altogether likely that we would not now have days on our pro pro- gram I For Fox in emmer wheat lies the key of I III I I production to hundreds of millions of I II American acres now unused because of I their attitude or lack of moisture I IA I I A decade ago Professor or Buffum brought to this country a few grains I I of emmer wheat then a wild and stubbornly stubbornly stub stub- bearded grain It grew in Palestine Palestine Pal Pal- I estine stine and other old ohl world II P so high and and r d dry that other grains refused refused to to grow upon them i The very thing for our Western Vestern i arid land lan Professor ProCessor Buffum said Professor Buffum began exp experimenting experiment experiment- ing lie He had to produce a larger grain than the wild emmer of Palestine Palestine Palestine Pales Pales- tine and to the beard Both of these things he did ld by choosing each year ear the larger and less bearded seed Season eason by season emmer wheat was grown in wider and wider apart sec sec- ec- ec Last summer it was sown as experiments in practically all ali Vestern Western Western West Vest ern mountainous and nod arid states One Colorado farmer raised ten times as |