A New Grain Discovered.
A new grain known as black wiidc.r emmer has been evolved, after years of study by Prof. Buffum, who conducts an experiment farm in the Big Horn Basin near Worland, Wyo. The grain is somewhat larger than wheat, and is a cross of wheat, and several other less known grains. It will grow in much drier soil than wheat, and four times as much can be grown to the ay-re. It weighs more to the bushel than wheat, and while hardly so fine as that grain for food purposes, may assist materially in solving the general food problem owing to its excellence and cheapness as fodder for the animals whose flesh figures on the dinner tables of men. Emmer itself is not a novelty. It has been raised for many centuries, and has been given much attention by farmers in Russia.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 26, 26 June 1912, Page 3
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145A New Grain Discovered. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 26, 26 June 1912, Page 3
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