Sorghums : sure money crops . cres ofcane and kafir fail every year because the crop literallyburns up—because there were two or three times morestalks on the ground than the moisture could drilling of a bushel or more of cane or kafir inWestern Kansas is disastrous for every year except theunusually wet. The seeding of one and a half to twobushels on the uplands of Eastern Kansas will result ingreatly diminishing the crop certainty every year. Sinceat seeding time no man is able to know what the seasonsrainfall will be, it is a good policy to safeguard againstthe dry year and at t
Sorghums : sure money crops . cres ofcane and kafir fail every year because the crop literallyburns up—because there were two or three times morestalks on the ground than the moisture could drilling of a bushel or more of cane or kafir inWestern Kansas is disastrous for every year except theunusually wet. The seeding of one and a half to twobushels on the uplands of Eastern Kansas will result ingreatly diminishing the crop certainty every year. Sinceat seeding time no man is able to know what the seasonsrainfall will be, it is a good policy to safeguard againstthe dry year and at the same time adopt such plantingmethods as will give the desired forage quality. Toaccomplish this, the grower should arrive at a happy 192 sorghums: sure money crops medium in the planting rate and use such planting methodas is likely to give the surest crop. The planting of kafir and cane in rows, for forage, isto be recommended, and applies to the areas of heavy aswell as light rainfall. Row planting is necessary for the. Kafir Heads Grown 1912 by Stephen Goble. Greer County. Okla-homa.—Yield, 71 Bushelsper Acre.—Heavy True to Type HeadsHad Been Selected by Him for Seed for Years. sections of light rainfall that the crop may be plantedsufficiently thin and cultivated. For the areas of heavierrainfall—30 to 35 inches—it is recommended because theseed may be planted plenty thick in the row to make fineforage and yet prevent the use of so much seed that adeficiency of moisture will result in crop loss, and alsothat in a season of short rainfall the crop can be culti- GRAIN SORGHUM FARMING 193 vated, the moisture conserved and the crop forced tosatisfactory growth. In the areas of heavier rainfall therow-planted crop may not in a wet season produce solarge a tonnage as if drilled, but this decreased yield ismore than offset by the assurance of a satisfactory yieldin a drier season. After a few trials the grower of sor-ghum forage will see the advantages of row planting
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