Sorghums : sure money crops . fully maintained and to a greaterextent, on the grain and forage of sorghums than is thecase in any other important live stock county in Kansas, The Lesson of Kafir and Milo. There are farmersin every locality who are securing corn, kafir and miloyields year after year, two or three and even more timesin excess of the average for their communities. Thereare farmers who rarely experience even a near failurein sorghums or other feed crops and who always havefeed sufficient to well winter their live stock and to feedtheir cows to a point of liberal milk production. W
Sorghums : sure money crops . fully maintained and to a greaterextent, on the grain and forage of sorghums than is thecase in any other important live stock county in Kansas, The Lesson of Kafir and Milo. There are farmersin every locality who are securing corn, kafir and miloyields year after year, two or three and even more timesin excess of the average for their communities. Thereare farmers who rarely experience even a near failurein sorghums or other feed crops and who always havefeed sufficient to well winter their live stock and to feedtheir cows to a point of liberal milk production. Withthese farmers their success is not wholly one of rainfall 114 sorghums: sure money crops or otherwise favorable growing seasons. Such examplesare worthy of imitation and hold encouragement forevery other farmer. Kansas has attained distinction as the largest grainsorghum producing state, because her conditions of soiland climate are such as have compelled her farmers toplace dependence in the sorghums, and not because they. ]Map of Kansas Sliowing Altitude of the Several Sections of the State. would follow grain sorghum growing as a more profit-able crop than others they have for years grown. Inother words, to date Kansas is growing grain sorghumsonly to the extent that they are absolutely needed andnot because the possibilities of grain sorghum growinghave been realized to the extent that any big live stockor other attendant industry has been established there-upon. The evidence given in this chapter would indicatethat kafir and milo are enough surer feed and foragecrops to justify an increased acreage and to warrant thefeeding of more of all kinds of animals and the buildingup of a greater live stock industry within the state andan increased farming prosperity. SORGHUM AREAS DEFINED. Climates are not changed by man. As shown by therecords lor long periods, climates do not change fromany cause. That rainfall does not follow the plow, mustbe accepted by every farmer as a fac
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