Sorghums : sure money crops . two crops. Grain Sorghums Yield Double Corn. A Limon, Col-orado, reader wrote Kansas Farmer in November, 1912:Last spring we planted four varieties of grain sorghumsand five varieties of corn. All received as good cultureas could be given. The past season has been one of thebest this country has ever had. The corn shows smallyield of grain, none of the varieties yielding more thanten bushels per acre. Each variety of corn was supposedto be adapted to this climate and soil. The grain sor-ghums are all showing good yields. The lowest yieldingvariety will make more t
Sorghums : sure money crops . two crops. Grain Sorghums Yield Double Corn. A Limon, Col-orado, reader wrote Kansas Farmer in November, 1912:Last spring we planted four varieties of grain sorghumsand five varieties of corn. All received as good cultureas could be given. The past season has been one of thebest this country has ever had. The corn shows smallyield of grain, none of the varieties yielding more thanten bushels per acre. Each variety of corn was supposedto be adapted to this climate and soil. The grain sor-ghums are all showing good yields. The lowest yieldingvariety will make more than double the amount of grain 76 sorghums: sure money crops which the best variety of corn will give and all sorghumshave far exceeded the corn in quantity of fodder. Grain Sorghums in the Panhandle. For the Panhan-dle of Texas corn is not to be considered as a grain orforage crop when compared with the grain has proven the poorest grain crop of the corn does give a fair yield the grain is so badly. Red Polled Cattle, Sorghums and Intelligent Effort Made ThisComfortable Farm Home in Phillips County, Kansas. worm-eaten that it has no value except for hog feed. Thegrain sorghums, however, are so well adapted and aresuch profitable substitutes for all purposes that thereis no reason why the Panhandle farmer should attemptcorn-growing. The Panhandle includes 47 counties inNorthwest Texas, the elevation ranging from 2,000 to4,000 feet. The annual precipitation varies from eigh-teen to twenty-three inches, the greater part of whichfalls during the spring and early summer this section the evaporation is great, themid-day temperatures high, and the nights relativelycool. It is in this part of Texas that the Federal Depart-ment of Agriculture is doing its most important workin the selection and development of improved kafirs,durras and milos. GRAIN SORGHUM YIELDS AND VALUES 77 Experiments during 1903 to 1906 at Channing, Hart-ley County, are
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