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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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ot been possible to compile any reliable data showingthat the rainfall in Kansas is any differently distributedthrough the year than it was 40 years ago, or that therehas been any change in the prevalency of drouths. Eastern Kansas Kafir Experience. Eastern Kan-sas corn growers should carefully consider this experi-ence reported by J. G. Mitchell, Wilson County, andwhose farm is in the area of thirty-five to forty inches ofannual precipitation: I suggest that you farm paper editors push kafirmore than you do. I am certain that it should be thestandcird crop instead of being considered a make-shiftor catch crop for dry years. There is no use trying to dodge the fact that cornwill not make a full crop in Kansas very often. Andwhen we do get a full crop it is still not as valuable askafir put on the same ground and tended the same. Kafir can be made to reach the 40-bushel mark onany upland in Kansas by proper tending and selection ofseed. I have grown it as a main crop from its first in-
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SORGHUM AREAS DEFINED 135 troduction, and find it the equal of corn in all ways, andthe fodder much superior to corn. The farmers of the state have been too careless inselecting seed, and have let it get too late in maturing.I have kept the time of ripening down to September 10,and anyone can do this by selecting the earliest headsfor a number of years. Adapted Sorghums and Areas. The preceding para-graphs have shown how the farmers of Kansas have dis-tributed throughout the state the acreages of the severalsorghums. The areas to which the sorghums are adaptedas viewed by G. E. Thompson, superintendent of branchagricultural experiment stations in Kansas, are shown ona map which he prepared for Kansas Farmer followingthe 1913 season and which is reproduced herewith. Threemembers of the Manhattan Experiment Station agronomyforce concurred with Mr. Thompson in his conclusions.The determination of these areas is the result of theexperience of farmers of each section, combined with theresu

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