. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. Fig Amber sorghum. Descriptions of varieties of siveet sorghum. 1. Amber. (Fig. 810.) This is the earliest vari- ety, maturing in about 90-100 days; stems slender, 5-7 feet tall, averaging 8-10 nodes, branching ^ freely late in i^^i^ the season; leaves rather slender. Pani- cles black, loose and very open, 8-12 inches long,ob- long or ovate- pyramidal in outline, fre- quently o
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. Fig Amber sorghum. Descriptions of varieties of siveet sorghum. 1. Amber. (Fig. 810.) This is the earliest vari- ety, maturing in about 90-100 days; stems slender, 5-7 feet tall, averaging 8-10 nodes, branching ^ freely late in i^^i^ the season; leaves rather slender. Pani- cles black, loose and very open, 8-12 inches long,ob- long or ovate- pyramidal in outline, fre- quently one- sided (secund) and triangular through the leaning of the italks, the lower branches usually droop- ing. Typically awned, but awns decidu- ous at matur- ity, and some- times entirely wanting. Glumes broad, jet black, more or less silky-hairy, exceeding and enclosing the orange or reddish, oval seeds. Exceeding variable. Forms with contracted panicles are common, especially in the Plains region and the extreme North, where lack of moisture and short season prevent luxuriant growth. It is known commercially under many names, as Early Amber, Minnesota Amber, Im- proved Amber, Wisconsin Amber, Black Dwarf, and others. Is found in cultivation on every continent. Amber is very subject to blight and smut. Minnesota Amber was originated through selec- tion more than forty years ago by Mr. Seth H. Kenney, of Waterville, Minn. It is distinguished by more slender panicles with longer branches and larger spikelets, by glabrous and usually glaucous or bluish-white glumes which are less rigid in texture, and by absence of awns. Folgers Early was developed as a specially pro- ductive syrup strain, and when true to name is said to be somewhat later. 2. Red Ainber. This differs from Amber mainly in the red empty glumes, but is also 5-10 days later. It is now cultivated in this country only spar- ingly if at all, but was probably in more general use at one time. The seed has recently been re-
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