. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. 164 FEEDS AND FEEDING, ABRIDGED grain sorghums, are of great and increasing importance as forage crops, because they are far more drought resistant than corn and the leaves remain green late in autumn. The sorghums, mainly the sorghos, are valuable in the southern states for hay, soilage, and silage, and are also grown in the northern states, chiefly for soilage. Three tons of air-dry fodder is
. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. 164 FEEDS AND FEEDING, ABRIDGED grain sorghums, are of great and increasing importance as forage crops, because they are far more drought resistant than corn and the leaves remain green late in autumn. The sorghums, mainly the sorghos, are valuable in the southern states for hay, soilage, and silage, and are also grown in the northern states, chiefly for soilage. Three tons of air-dry fodder is a good and 6 tons a large return from the sorghums, while maximum yields may reach 10 tons of dry fodder. Fig. 46.—A Field of Kafir in the Texas Panhandle Because of their resistance to drought, the grain sorghums and the sorghos are of great importance as forage crops in the semi-arid districts. (From The Southwest Trail, Bock Island Lines.) or 40 tons of green material.* Under Kansas conditions the sorghums produce one-third to one-half more forage per acre than Sorghum fodder and stover.—Thruout regions of scanty rainfall the sorghums are most commonly grown in drilled rows of sufficient width to allow cultivation, by which the moisture is conserved and larger yields obtained. "When grown in drills, not too thickly, much seed is produced and the stalks are somewhat coarse. Sorghum forage is more palatable when cut before full maturity, but the seed should be allowed to reach the early dough stage, for if cut earlier the plants s Piper, Forage Plants, p. 269. * Beed, Kan. Cir. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Henry, W. A. (William Arnon), 1850-1932; Morrison, F. B. (Frank Barron), 1887-1958. Madison, Wis. , The Henry-Morrison company
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