Sorghums : sure money crops . or Kansas: Eastern sixty miles,one-fourth to kafir, three-fourths to corn; next one hun-dred miles, one-half to each; next one hundred fortymiles, three-fourths kafir and cane, and one-fourth corn;last one hundred miles, nine-tenths to kafir, cane andmilo, and one-tenth (if any) to early varieties of the right kind of farming there is seldom any neces-sity for a loss of feed of kafir, cane or milo. Milo shouldbe grown on every farm in the extreme western counties. Many farmers make two serious mistakes in the hand-ling of kafir: (1) They neglect to work
Sorghums : sure money crops . or Kansas: Eastern sixty miles,one-fourth to kafir, three-fourths to corn; next one hun-dred miles, one-half to each; next one hundred fortymiles, three-fourths kafir and cane, and one-fourth corn;last one hundred miles, nine-tenths to kafir, cane andmilo, and one-tenth (if any) to early varieties of the right kind of farming there is seldom any neces-sity for a loss of feed of kafir, cane or milo. Milo shouldbe grown on every farm in the extreme western counties. Many farmers make two serious mistakes in the hand-ling of kafir: (1) They neglect to work the ground earlyenough in the spring, seeming to act under the impres-sion that, because kafir is a dry weather-resistant crop,it does not need any moisture saved for it. (2) They al-most universally neglect to gather seed from the field,when they could select the early ripening heads andthus, by breeding, shorten the growing period needed andalso have their fields ripen uniformly the next year. 224 SORGHUMS: SURE MONEY CROPS. The Head to the Riglit Is High Yielding Head of True Kafir Type and Typical of a Field Yielding 80 Bushels per Acre in 1912. The Head to the Left Is a Loav Yielding Head and Typical of aField Yielding 20 Bushels per Acre in 1912.—The Reader ShouldNote Carefully the Difference in the Type of the Two Headsand Should Plant Seed from High Yielding Tine Kafir TypeHeads Only. BETTER GRAIN SORGHUM CROPS. During the fall of 1912 I received many inquiries fromreaders of Kansas Farmer who sought to know the causeof the general annually decreasing yields of kafir. Thecall for help came from every section of Kansas andindicated a deep-seated desire to know the truth. Theinvestigation made in an effort to correctly answer theseinquiries, and the observations incident thereto regardinggrain sorghum farming in general, resulted in my de-cision to write this book. In every locality in which tsought information, there prevailed a lack of apprecia-tion of the possibiliti
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