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Title: Sorghums : sure money crops
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Borman, Thomas Allen, 1872-
Subjects: Sorghum
Publisher: Topeka : The Kansas Farmer Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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w dry weather resisting crops andwill pay long prices for seed which promises more cer-tain production than those proven crops they alreadyhave. It is well for the farmer to remember that theexperiment stations are at all times investigating variousnew field crops and new varieties of established crops.It is not the part of wisdom to plant a considerable acre-age of any seed until the experiment station authoritiesor good farmers have placed their approval upon suchcrop. Habits of Sorghum Growth. Experience should havetaught the sorghum belt farmer that the sorghums aremore dry weather resistant and of earlier maturity andmore certain of production than is corn. There wouldseem to be no good reason for a detailed explanation asto why these plants differ in these respects. However,a full understanding of the characteristics of the sor-ghum plants will enable the farmer to more fully appre-ciate their adaptability to sorghum belt conditions, andso justify his greater dependence in them.
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o .2 (J a K m GRAIN SORGHUMS IN GENERAL 57 The sorghums have an extensive root system. Thishas been noted by every farmer who has plowed a fieldfollowing a sorghum crop. The soil is usually so full ofroots as to make plowing difficult and the ground turnsup soddy and lumpy. This would indicate that sorghumshave more numerous roots than has corn, but this is byno means established. The dry condition of the soil fol-lowing sorghums, however, is evidence of the ability ofthe sorghum plants to extract moisture from the soilto a greater extent than does corn, and through whichmoisture the plant obtains the food necessary for itsdevelopment. The sorghums have the faculty of deeprooting, if necessary, to obtain moisture. Their greaterability to adapt themselves to moisture conditions is oneof the reasons why the sorghums are able to withstanddry weather and heat to a greater degree than is corn.In a dry season the sorghums will root more deeply thanin a wet season. If the required moisture i

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