Archive image from page 432 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 Fig. 580. Tellow milo (or 'milo' out growth for weeks. When rains come again, growth is resumed normally. If the crop is cut the stalks will sprout again, in the South, and produce a second and perhaps a third crop. Distribution. The growing of kafir and durra in the United States is very recent, at least to a commercial B25 Average for six years, 1894 being excluded. The above resul
Archive image from page 432 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 Fig. 580. Tellow milo (or 'milo' out growth for weeks. When rains come again, growth is resumed normally. If the crop is cut the stalks will sprout again, in the South, and produce a second and perhaps a third crop. Distribution. The growing of kafir and durra in the United States is very recent, at least to a commercial B25 Average for six years, 1894 being excluded. The above results were obtained under conditions too dry to be favorable for maize, as is indicated by the yields. Under conditions most favorable to maize, the kafir is usually at a disadvantage. The weight of a bushel of kafir is fifty-six pounds. Varieties. The three principal varieties of kafir are Red, White, and Blackhull. The principal difi'erence in appearance is in the color of seed and hulls, from which the names are derived. White kafir usually averages four to five feet in height under fair conditions. Red kafir grows six to eight inches taller, and yields more fodder and grain. The seed-coat, however, has an astringent taste, mak- ing it less desirable for stock-food than grain from the white variety, which is not astringent. Black- hull kafir produces a yield of grain and forage about equal to the Red kafir, and the grain is not astringent, and therefore is considered by many to be the more desirable. The leading varieties of the durra group are the Yellow milo, Brown durra. White durra or Jeru- salem corn (rice corn, Egyptian corn). Yellow milo is grown rather extensively in some sections, especially in western Oklahoma and the Panhandle of Texas. It matures in about two weeks less time than kafir, and hence can be grown at higher altitudes and farther north than can that crop. The grain of Yellow milo is larger and more brittle than kafir. and hence is more easily masticated b
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