Sorghums : sure money crops . yers of seeds, one above the other, andan attempt has been made to correct this defect by mak-ing plates so thin as to allow only one layer of seed inthe hole. The thin plates have been found to wear outquickly and also to form a shearing arrangement thatgrinds many of the larger and best seeds. Holes havebeen made smaller in diameter to prevent them holdingso many seeds. Seeds will frequently become wedgedtogether in the small holes and not drop out for a con-siderable time, causing many vacant spaces in the farmers have reported fair success by plugg
Sorghums : sure money crops . yers of seeds, one above the other, andan attempt has been made to correct this defect by mak-ing plates so thin as to allow only one layer of seed inthe hole. The thin plates have been found to wear outquickly and also to form a shearing arrangement thatgrinds many of the larger and best seeds. Holes havebeen made smaller in diameter to prevent them holdingso many seeds. Seeds will frequently become wedgedtogether in the small holes and not drop out for a con-siderable time, causing many vacant spaces in the farmers have reported fair success by pluggingup every other hole in the dropping plate with lead orbabbit. A few farmers have reported that in additionto plugging half the holes, they have put a wire loop inthe spout below the plate, adjusting it until it scatters 188 SORGHUMS: SURE MONEY CROPS the seeds along the row when more than one are droppedat a time. The thin planting of milo and feterita will not be sodifficult because the seeds are larger and so fewer seeds. Heads of Kafir Grown in 1913 at Eads, Colorado.—Field Yielded 25Busliels per Acre.—Matured in 100 Days with Only Three LightShowers,—Planted on Fall Listed Land. pass the openings. I talked with a farmer who plantedkafir in 1913 with a garden drill. He enlarged the seedcontainer and hitched a horse to the drill. His standaveraged a stalk to each ten or twelve inches and he har-vested a forty-bushel crop. Another farmer who secureda small quantity of feterita seed for 1913 planting wasdesirous of planting thin and making the seed go as faras he could. He plugged every other hole in the kafir GRAIN SORGHUM FARMING 189 plate of his lister and the stand averaged one stalk toeach twenty inches, although this same plate droppedthree to five seeds of kafir in the same furrow machinery thoroughly adapted to sorghumplanting will in the near future be invented. In themeantime the farmer should do his best to get as nearas possible the desire
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