. Elementary principles of agriculture; a text book for the common schools. d the increasinguse of silos, we have another method of saving the entireyield of a corn crop. A method of harvesting a crop ofcorn that saves 1,000 to 4,)00 pomids of valuable per acre from gc:ing to waste, should be moregenera; .> used. Silos are coming into general use in allparts of ^Oe country. When first introduced they wereused mostly by dairymen. They have proven to beprofitable to general feeders. CHAPTER XLVSORGHUMS BY PROF. A. H. LEIDIGH, Department of Agronomy, KansasAgricultural College
. Elementary principles of agriculture; a text book for the common schools. d the increasinguse of silos, we have another method of saving the entireyield of a corn crop. A method of harvesting a crop ofcorn that saves 1,000 to 4,)00 pomids of valuable per acre from gc:ing to waste, should be moregenera; .> used. Silos are coming into general use in allparts of ^Oe country. When first introduced they wereused mostly by dairymen. They have proven to beprofitable to general feeders. CHAPTER XLVSORGHUMS BY PROF. A. H. LEIDIGH, Department of Agronomy, KansasAgricultural College. 480. Sorghum is the name of a group of large, rank-growing grasses that include a number of cultivatedforms. Some forms have been long in cultivation inAfrica, India, and China, and were known to the earlyEgyptians, Greeks, and Romans. The sorghums includespecies grown for sirup, forage, grain, and brooms. 481. Adaptations. The most striking character of,,Sorghums is their dr(> or drouch-enduringhabits. This is due partly to their extensive and peculiar. Fig. 209 Blackhull Kafl&r. Good preparation, pure bred seed and frequent culti-Vbcion combined to produce large yield and uniform quality. (330) Sorghums 331 root development, but mostly to the habit of curling uptheir leaves when dry weather comes and waiting withoutserious injury for timely showers. All grasses show thisquality to some extent, but few have the power of revivingand renewing growth like the sorghums. When thestalk is cut off near the ground, new shoots will come fromthe stubs and continue to grow until killed by the a result of this habit, sometimes two or three cuttingsof hay in one season are made in thelower South, where the growing seasonsare long. The suckers mature some-what fater than the main stem. Thestooling habit is by some thought tobe an undesirable one for the grainsorghums because it results in unevenripening of the heads. In the foragesorghums it is an advantage. 482.
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