Sorghums : sure money crops . icalheads of well-bred milo from early-maturing fields whichyielded well under the seasonal adversities of 1913. Inthat year I failed to find an early-planted, well-cultivatedfield of improved and selected milo which did not pro-duce grain. The dissected head on page 254 measuredeight inches in length and weighed six ounces. The seedwas fully matured and every glume on the head handling, this and its companion heads held their seedremarkably well. The heads of feterita or Sudan durra shown on page260 are of the desirable type and are typical of the heav-
Sorghums : sure money crops . icalheads of well-bred milo from early-maturing fields whichyielded well under the seasonal adversities of 1913. Inthat year I failed to find an early-planted, well-cultivatedfield of improved and selected milo which did not pro-duce grain. The dissected head on page 254 measuredeight inches in length and weighed six ounces. The seedwas fully matured and every glume on the head handling, this and its companion heads held their seedremarkably well. The heads of feterita or Sudan durra shown on page260 are of the desirable type and are typical of the heav-iest heads in the highest-yielding fields I have heads were grown in 1913 in Cheyenne County,Kansas, and the yield was thirty bushels per acre. Thisfield did not sucker badly and the heads shown are frommain stems only. Those heads of feterita shown at theagricultural fairs in Kansas and Oklahoma in 1913 werewidely varying in type—a thing quite generally noticedand commented upon by farmers. The fact is that much. Interior of Dwarf Milo Head of Desirable Form.—Compare withIllustration on Page 236. BETTER GRAIN SORGHUM CROPS 255 feterita, so-called, is white durra, which has been grownoff and on for years throughout the sorghum belt underthe names of ^Egyptian corn, **rice corn, and Jeru-salem corn. The seed of white durra is near white, withlight-colored hulls, the heads are more slender andpointed at the tip and butt and not so bunchy as thoseof Sudan durra. The seed of Sudan durra or feterita islarger than that of white durra, is white with a slightlybluish tinge, and has dark brown hulls. The heads ofwhite durra have a tendency to droop, while feterita hasnaturally erect heads. Thousands of bushels of the seedof white durra was sold as feterita in 1913. Remember-ing these differences and observing the type of feteritahead here shown, the grower cannot be mistaken in dis-tinguishing white durra from feterita if he can see theseed in the head. The dissected fete
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