Sorghums : sure money crops . shows that in 1912every county in Kansas grew 1,000 acres or less. Thelargest milo acreage is in the western one-third of Kan-sas, which has a precipitation of twenty inches or lessand a growing season of 160 to 140 days. Each succes-sive year is resulting in its more general planting, be-cause farmers have found it more certain than kafir asa grain crop. The earlier maturity of milo, as comparedwith common kafir, and its more economical use of mois-ture, are characteristics which make it better adaptedthan kafir to western needs. The milos are being improved and
Sorghums : sure money crops . shows that in 1912every county in Kansas grew 1,000 acres or less. Thelargest milo acreage is in the western one-third of Kan-sas, which has a precipitation of twenty inches or lessand a growing season of 160 to 140 days. Each succes-sive year is resulting in its more general planting, be-cause farmers have found it more certain than kafir asa grain crop. The earlier maturity of milo, as comparedwith common kafir, and its more economical use of mois-ture, are characteristics which make it better adaptedthan kafir to western needs. The milos are being improved and their usefulness 124 SORGHUMS: SURE MONEY CROPS increased and as acclimated home-grown seed is avail-able the western third of Kansas will increase its miloacreage. The Oklahoma and Texas milo-growing sectionsare those of twenty inches or less of precipitation. Soit would seem that farm practice had designated miloas the grain feed crop for such areas. The forage of milois not regarded in Western Kansas as a desirable rough-. ]\Iap Showing Earliest Date of Killing Frost in the Fall in Kansas. age, but in Colorado and Texas milo-growing farmersfeed it with good results to all kinds of live stock. How-ever, the farmers of the milo-growing sections are for-tunate in being able to grow cane for forage, the latterbeing the acknowledged sure forage crop under such con-ditions as enforce the use of milo for grain. Milo in Thomas County. In the year 1913 milo ma-tured in every county in the western third of Kansas,except in those few counties in which grasshoppers de-stroyed all growing crops. P. S. Houston, of ThomasCounty, wrote Kansas Farmer his experience with twohundred acres of milo in 1913, and a portion of his letteris here printed. It shows the early maturity of the crop,the satisfactory results of thin planting and the appar-ent increased crop assurance through planting on land SORGHUM AREAS DEFINED 125 which had not the year before grown a crop but whichwas free from vegetat
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