Sorghums : sure money crops . d heads should be made sosoon as the first heads mature. This is to maintain itspresent early maturity and so continue dry weatherevasion. The seed heads should be taken only from themain stalk. Select heads from erect stalks which haveno branches or suckers, or from stalks which have thesmallest number of each. Select heads which are wellfilled at the tip and butt and which in outward appear-ance and interior construction conform to the heads hereillustrated. The same precaution should be taken to pre-vent mixing with other sorghums as in the case of kafiror milo
Sorghums : sure money crops . d heads should be made sosoon as the first heads mature. This is to maintain itspresent early maturity and so continue dry weatherevasion. The seed heads should be taken only from themain stalk. Select heads from erect stalks which haveno branches or suckers, or from stalks which have thesmallest number of each. Select heads which are wellfilled at the tip and butt and which in outward appear-ance and interior construction conform to the heads hereillustrated. The same precaution should be taken to pre-vent mixing with other sorghums as in the case of kafiror milo. 260 SORGHUMS: SURE MONEY CROPS ^ Field Selection of Cane Seed. It should be remem-bered that field selection of cane, when grown either forseed for market or for forage, is fully as essential forthe most satisfactory crops as is such selection of thegrain sorghums. The selection and care of cane seed isidentical with that already recommended for the othersorghums. The advantages of pure strains of cane aregiven on page Heads of Feterita or Sudan Durra.—More Desirable Than HeadsMore Pointed at Tip and Butt.—Each Has Interior Shownon Page 258. Percentage of Grain to Total Crop. As would be ex-pected in grain sorghums, the percentage of grain to totalcrop will vary with the season in which the crop is grownand with the stand. Investigation at the Texas foragecrops stations indicates that under ordinary field condi-tions milo will produce 35 to 40 per cent of grain to totalweight. Black-hulled kafir averages about 25 per cent;the lower percentage in kafir is due to the heavier stalkand the greater number of leaves as compared with plat of feterita at the Chillicothe, Texas, station in1912, yielded 35 per cent of grain. The heads of milo,feterita and kafir will thresh out about the same per- BETTER GRAIN SORGHUM CROPS 261 centage of grain, which will range from 75 to 80 per centof the total weight. In seasons of dry weather or otherunfavorable conditions for grain
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