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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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y pur-pose for which we in the United States use wheat andcorn. The grain of the sorghums is their staff of life.Their live stock feed upon the grain and forage. Inmany parts the coarser stalks are built into shelter forboth man and beast. As would be expected, the agricultural experiment sta-tions of Africa, East India and Egypt have taken note ofgrain sorghum production. These stations record largeyields on the most fertile soils in the sections of heaviestrainfall. They also record their adaptability to the highaltitudes, the short growing seasons, the poorer soilsand the sections of light rainfall. The conditionsrecorded, and under which they are grown, vary fromthe humid to the arid, and from near sea level to analtitude of 4,500 feet, although it is said that the grainyield is light at an altitude of 3,900 feet. It is indicatedby the map that the sorghums in the Eastern Hemisphereare grown as far north as latitude 45 degrees, whichis the latitude of St. Paul, Minnesota. While we
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GRAIN SORGHUMS IN GENERAL 49 have not adapted grain sorghums in a general way northof latitude 42 degrees, which is the Kansas-Nebraskaline, in Montana and in the Dakotas milo, in particular,has given good yields at 45 degrees. Also through Ne-braska and the Dakotas sorghums for forage are quitegenerally grown. Reference to the map will reveal thefact that every country on the globe having the samelatitude as the sorghum belt in the United States, isgrowing sorghums. This indicates that the home of thesorghums, in general characteristics, presents a widerrange of conditions—favorable as well as unfavorable—than does our sorghum belt. It should be understood,however, that the grain sorghums as growing in the OldWorld are, for the most part, unimproved and so widelyvarying in their usefulness as a grain or forage. These remarks are presented as evidence that farmersin the sorghum belt are not experimenting with a familyof plants originally grown under such conditions as tomake their

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