Sorghums : sure money crops . rinches or more of precipitation, milo in areas havingsixteen to twenty-four, and that feterita deserves a thor-ough trial in sections having less than sixteen inches. It is important to note to what extent the farmer hasdetermined the kafir and milo-growing sections for Kan-sas and in connection therewith to observe those condi-tions which point to the desirability of sorghum almost every locality there are progressive farmers 122 sorghums: sure money crops who have established the most successful crop and farmmethods for their section. The accomplishm
Sorghums : sure money crops . rinches or more of precipitation, milo in areas havingsixteen to twenty-four, and that feterita deserves a thor-ough trial in sections having less than sixteen inches. It is important to note to what extent the farmer hasdetermined the kafir and milo-growing sections for Kan-sas and in connection therewith to observe those condi-tions which point to the desirability of sorghum almost every locality there are progressive farmers 122 sorghums: sure money crops who have established the most successful crop and farmmethods for their section. The accomplishments of thesemen and the work and observations of the agriculturalexperiment stations, provide the safest guide for recom-mendation of general practices. I believe it safe tosay that those farmers who have pioneered in sorghumgrowing have proven the adapted areas and the relativemerits of the grain sorghums for the several sections ofKansas. The distribution of the sorghums throughoutKansas is illustrated by the several .Map Showing Average Date of Last Killing Frost in the Spring in Kansas. Kafir Distribution in Kansas. By reference to themap on page 100, it will be seen that more than half ofthe kafir acreage of Kansas is grown in the eastern halfof the state. This area has an annual precipitation ofthirty inches on the west border, increasing to fortyinches on the east, and the growing season ranges from160 to 190 days. In Eastern Oklahoma under a corre-sponding precipitation but longer growing season, kafirhas become an established farm crop. The performance ofkafir compared with corn, as presented in the precedingchapter, indicates, beyond doubt, that farmers have found SORGHUM AREAS DEFINED 123 the common varieties of kafir most useful in sectionshaving thirty inches or more of annual , as show^n by the map, kafir is more generally grownthan any other sorghum crop in the eastern two-thirdsof the state and west to the area of twenty inches ofannual
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