Archive image from page 433 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 3S6 KAFIR AND DURRA KAFIR AND DURRA for hay. soiling or silage, being used almost exclu- sively for grain and fotider. The fodder is usually considered less valuable than that of either sor- ghum or kalir, as the stalks are less leafy, and the crop is generally much more mature when cut. It is rather more difficult to harvest than kafir, as k Fig. 581. Field of Red kaflr. the head
Archive image from page 433 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 3S6 KAFIR AND DURRA KAFIR AND DURRA for hay. soiling or silage, being used almost exclu- sively for grain and fotider. The fodder is usually considered less valuable than that of either sor- ghum or kalir, as the stalks are less leafy, and the crop is generally much more mature when cut. It is rather more difficult to harvest than kafir, as k Fig. 581. Field of Red kaflr. the heads often turn down and the stalks are not uniform in height. Thick planting is advisable, using at least five pounds of seed to the acre, as the percentage of goosenecked heads will be re- duced, and the time of maturity will be more uni- form. If planted thinly. Yellow milo stools and branches vigorously, and the heads on the various suckers do not ripen at the same time as the main head. It is most useful in the western part of the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska; eastern Colorado ; and in New Mexico and Arizona. In the warm, dry parts of the small grain-grow- ing sections, milo is an excellent crop to plant after the cereals are harvested. It may prove of value in eastern Oregon and Washington, especially if earlier .strains can be developed. The so-called White milo is an inferior, tall- fTowing true kafir. Brown durra is grown rather extensively in California under the name Egyptian corn, although this latter name is applied to other sorts, especially to White durra. It is very similar in many re- spects to Yellow milo, but 'the grain is darker in color and the heads are rather more uniformly goosenecked. The crop is less valuable than Yellow milo, as the grain shatters readily when ripe. Its cultivation is in every way the same as that of kafir and Yellow milo. White durra or Jerusalem corn is little grown in this country. The heads are very compact, usually
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