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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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help but increase the farm revenue. It is else-where recorded that live stock farming gives from 18 to48 per cent more profit than grain farming in the statesof Illinois, Missouri and Iowa, and which states arefavorable to the growing of market crops. It would seemthat live stock farming in Kansas, as compared withgrain farming, would appear still more profitable. But,live stock farming cannot be successful without an as-sured and abundant feed supply. Kafir, Milo and Corn Compared by Sections. Themore restricted the sections for which averages are madeto apply, the greater the value of the averages. For ex-ample, the intending purchaser of a farm in the westernthird of Kansas would gain a better idea of what hecould expect in crop yields if he knew the average yieldsfor that third of the state than if he knew only the aver-ages for the state as a whole. To permit a comparisonof kafir and milo growing, with corn, for the westernhalf and western third of Kansas, and that these may a- ^
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GRAIN SORGHUM YIELDS AND VALUES 107 be compared with the eastern half of the state and withthe entire state, I have compiled the table below. The fig-ures for the western half of the state are for those 54counties lying west of a line drawn between Jewell andRepublic counties on the north and Harper and Sumnercounties on the south, and which line is approximatelythe 98th meridian. These counties comprise almost ex-actly the western half of Kansas. The figures for thewestern third of Kansas are for those 31 counties lyingwest of the Norton-Phillips county line on the north andthe Clark-Comanche county line on the south. The west-ern half, and of course the western third of Kansas, iswithin the sorghum belt as described by the FederalDepartment of Agriculture, and it is logical that a tablepermitting a comparison of grain sorghum and corngrowing in Kansas sorghum belt with that part out-side of the sorghum belt, be given. However, the figuresalready given establish the claim made in the

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