Sorghums : sure money crops . , many of which did not produce ears at all. Thebest yield of corn we have had was 34 bushels per was badly worm-eaten and while the fodder was very-good, it was a very poor yield. We have grown as highas 72 bushels of white milo to the acre. That same sea-son we grew 66 bushels of brown milo and about thesame number of bushels of dwarf black-hulled kafir. The actual feeding value of an acre of kafir and ofcorn—and that should be the measure of value for allgood farmers—could not be better shown than by thefollowing tables taken from the 1910-1911 report o
Sorghums : sure money crops . , many of which did not produce ears at all. Thebest yield of corn we have had was 34 bushels per was badly worm-eaten and while the fodder was very-good, it was a very poor yield. We have grown as highas 72 bushels of white milo to the acre. That same sea-son we grew 66 bushels of brown milo and about thesame number of bushels of dwarf black-hulled kafir. The actual feeding value of an acre of kafir and ofcorn—and that should be the measure of value for allgood farmers—could not be better shown than by thefollowing tables taken from the 1910-1911 report of theStillwater, Oklahoma, station. These crops were grownon unmanured, medium upland soil: kafir per acre. Pounds Pounds Year of Stover of Grain 1900 4,600 1,744 1901 4,230 1,506 1902 4,500 1,154 1903 4,360 1,620 Average for four years 4,422 1,506 82 SORGHUMS: SURE MONEY CROPS corn per acre. PoundsYear of Stover 1900 3,260 1901 1,380 1902 1,424 1903 1,740 Average for four years 1,951 Pounds OF Grain 1,063 5 1,440 979 872. When in Shock This Graham County, Kansas, Wheat Fiehl Indicateda Yield of at Least 15 Bushels per Acre.—The Land Was Sum-mer Fallowed and This Was the Only Field of Wheat in theNeighborhood Harvested in 1913. *In reviewing these figures, says the report, *it willbe seen that corn was a complete failure during the sea-son of 1901 from the standpoint of grain production,while kafir gave very fair returns. Again, taking theyields which are given for corn for four consecutiveyears, wide variations are apparent both in yield of grainand in yield of stover. With kafir, however, the resultsare quite uniform throughout the entire period. Theaverage yield of kafir for the four years was 634 poundsper acre in advance of the average yield made by the GRAIN SORGHUM YIELDS AND VALUES 83 corn. The difference in the average amount of stoverproduced by these two crops was 2,471 pounds in favorof kafir. This study brings two important facts to our atten-tion. First, kaf
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