Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-07
NEW GRAIN WILL
 PROVE BOON

CHICAGO. March GA new hy- hrid grain, emmer. developed by Prof B. c. Buffum. of the Univer- , si:y of Wyoming and others of the same altitude and climate, bids fair to add more than the S2O0. 900. coo first estimated to the values of Uncle Sans crops. In a report by another national authority to the United States Department Of Agri culture regarded by Chicago grain men as most important, Prof Thos. r. Hunt, Dean O fthe School of Az riculture of the University of Penn sylvania, has said:
 In my opinion, formed after ex- haustiye tests made of emmer, these tests beginning shortly after its exhibition before the American as sOciation for the advancement of science in Boston last year, theI new grain will prove an inestimable boon to the dry sections Of this country It is particularly adapted to the districts O fthe west. having wonderful properties as a stock food. and will also prove a great substitute for wheat
 My experiments have shown that the average yield will be about sixty bushels per acre.
 For fifteen years did Professor Ruffum carry on his series of ex- periments before the new grain had reached state of development which he considered satisfactory Since then. his lectures have awak cned interest both in his discovery and the possibilities of lands. such as those in Wyoming which for years were used for sheep grazing and now are rapidly being taken up ty the armer The federal department of agriculture has taken keen irSerest he.csAlise S50,009, ,O00 approximately has been spent in Wyoming in the great ShoSiIone irrigation project in the Big Horn county, of which another unit is to be opened this year.
 Professor Butfun found that in inc conditions prevailing in Wyo- ming an average yield of emmer is double that of the best Russian sDelts. The report of Professor Hunt that the average can be considered 60 bushels to the acre shows the first estimate too low This fact. taken into consideration with the other that over one million acres will be thrown open to settlement in the Shoshone reservation, of which 132.000 acres will be irTiga- ble. is taken to indicate the profit ableness in agriculture in Wyoming and neighboring states to be far beyond even the earlied expectations of the reclamation department. Pro lessor Buffum also has succeeded in producting new variety or alfalfa. possessing the quality of the best known alfalfa, but having a greater rapidity of growth and weight Emmer has been found su- perior to corn in bone nourishment and flesh producing power
 New conditions now obtam throughout Wyoming, was a re- cent statement of Gerrit Fort, gener- al passenger traffic manager of the Union Pacific Railway. during a conference in Chicago The big im- migration movement for the next year or two will be 10 Wyoming. Plans have been made by our road for a migration such as in previous years mas focused on other states.
 The rapid transition which has taken place in Wyoming since the cattle outfits left ard the sheep men found their range restricted by set tlemens is a picturesque seGual to the events which made the Big Horn Valley famous when the In dians still held sway and Custer and his men los: their lives in fighting them. John Colter, of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition was the first man to stumble into this wonderful section. lis party trapped in territory tributary 10 -he Big Horn and made camp where now stands the mammoth concrete dam of the Shoshone project, the largest in the world, BPS 2 feet in height, c00 feet long across the :Op. Of the I32. GOO acres which are irrigable un- der that dam 132 ,0g0 subject to home stead entry The first unit was opened in 1906 and the second in 1909