Sorghums : sure money crops . ve : In a pound of cleaned and graded seed, fromwhich the cracked and small seeds have been removed,there are 22,000 to 24,000 seeds. Planting seeds fourinches apart in the row would require 37,200 seeds peracre; eight inches apart, 18,600 seeds; ten inches apart,14,500; twelve inches apart, 12,400; and sixteen inchesapart, 9,300; and such rate of planting would result inabout the same number of stalks per acre. It will benoted that the four-inch planting will require only slightlymore than one and one-half pounds of seed per acre, andten-inch planting would requi
Sorghums : sure money crops . ve : In a pound of cleaned and graded seed, fromwhich the cracked and small seeds have been removed,there are 22,000 to 24,000 seeds. Planting seeds fourinches apart in the row would require 37,200 seeds peracre; eight inches apart, 18,600 seeds; ten inches apart,14,500; twelve inches apart, 12,400; and sixteen inchesapart, 9,300; and such rate of planting would result inabout the same number of stalks per acre. It will benoted that the four-inch planting will require only slightlymore than one and one-half pounds of seed per acre, andten-inch planting would require little more than a half 184 SORGHUMS: SURE MONEY CROPS pound. A quart of kafir seed weighs one and three-fourths pounds and so has 38,500 to 42,000 seeds. Theprevailing rate of planting for grain in Kansas variesfrom two quarts or three and a half pounds to one gallonor seven pounds of seed per acre. From the above thefarmer may be able to determine the number of stalks peracre he is likely to have from the seed he Heads of Mongrel Kafir Showing the Result of Mixing with Caneand Broomcorn.—^Siicli Heads are Typical of Low Yielding andLate Maturing Fields. Rate of Planting Trials. Trials to determine the mostdesirable rates of planting grain sorghums have beenmade in considerable numbers at the forage crops stationsof the Federal Department of Agriculture in Texas. Four years tests at Amarillo indicate that the plantingof milo seven or eight inches apart in the row, and kafirnine to ten inches, in rows three and one-half feet apart,gave better yields than other rates of planting. Theaverage annual precipitation at Amarillo is 22 inches. At Chillicothe, Texas, the heaviest yield of kafir in1912 was obtained when the seeds were planted six toeight inches apart in the row, while the heaviest yields GRAIN SORGHUM FARMING 185 of milo were obtained when planted eight to ten inchesapart. The 1912 precipitation at this station was twentyinches, which was two inches less th
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