TUT-ANKK-AMEN
WHEAT FROM TOMB. GOOD CROP IN ALBERTA. •r/ -«•■ Edmonton, Alta. S. Cunningham of South Cooking Lake received a parcel of wheat in 1926, that had been taken from the tomb of King Tut-ankh-Amen in 1922. Mr, Cunningham planted this wheat on his Alberta farm last year and harvested a small crop from the Egyptian seed. This was reseeded in the spring of 1927, and has yielded a heavy crop. The wheat produced is quite unlike the wheat grown in this country as each stalk has about 12 separate heads which branch out in a fan-like formation from the tip of the stalk. The yield of this wheat from seed more than 3000 years old, is very heavy as Mr Cunningham counted 144 grains on one stalk. This wheat from the tomb in the Valley of Kings is a bearded variety and similar in some respects to Durum. It would be more suitable for macarini than for milling as it is a soft wheat, and the leaves are much broader than the ordinary wheat leaf. Dr. P. Karrer of Edmonton planted seed received from Egypt some eight years ago and from an acre plot he harvested 87 bushels.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 November 1927, Page 8
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