Sorghums : sure money crops . to me as being of value. So, it may be said thatthis is not a burst of spontaneity but is the record of alifetime of reasonably intimate relationship with the sor-ghums and sorghum growers. For years I had noted thedecreasing yields of which my inquirers complained buthad no occasion to place my conclusions in type until Ibecame actively engaged in editing a farm paper, whichduty I have taken so seriously as to make an honest en-deavor to learn and write of those things of somemoney value to the man who tills the soil. I had long held that the decreasing yields of
Sorghums : sure money crops . to me as being of value. So, it may be said thatthis is not a burst of spontaneity but is the record of alifetime of reasonably intimate relationship with the sor-ghums and sorghum growers. For years I had noted thedecreasing yields of which my inquirers complained buthad no occasion to place my conclusions in type until Ibecame actively engaged in editing a farm paper, whichduty I have taken so seriously as to make an honest en-deavor to learn and write of those things of somemoney value to the man who tills the soil. I had long held that the decreasing yields of kafir were 225 226 SORGHUMS: SURE MONEY CROPS due to neglect in seed selection, because I could see thatthe prevailing type of kafir head of recent years waswidely varying from the type introduced into Kansas inthe early eighties by the Federal Department of Agri-culture through the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Sta-tion. In my experience I had learned the necessity forkeeping the seed of kafir pure and the difficulties en-. These are Better Heads Than the Average of Kansas Kafir Fields,Yet Low-Yielding.—See Illustration 234. countered in preventing cross-fertilization or mixingwith cane when growing the two crops on the same farm,or even on adjoining farms. I had observed that on fewfarms was any effort made to maintain either the purityof kafir or the yield, by selection of choice heads for seed. BETTER GRAIN SORGHUM CROPS 227 My correspondence with inquirers developed the fact thatthey, too, realized these conditions but failed to under-stand why the seed had run out and did not know howto re-establish kafir to its former usefulness. However,in my search for higher than common yields and the con-tributing causes therefor, I found an occasional growerwho had maintained good yields and in whose hands theperformance of the crop had been so satisfactory yearafter year as to warrant an increasing appreciation ofits dependability. Yields to be Expected in Kansas. Investigation
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