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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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precipitation for each ten-year period of the past has been about the same; dryyears have alternated with wet years, and it will alwaysbe so. When the farmer settles in a new country hecan depend upon the precipitation of that country con-tinuing as shown bj^ the records of the past and his farm-ing operations should be governed thereby. Climate Governs Farm Methods. Varying annualprecipitation, distribution of rainfall through the grow-ing season, length of growing season and moisture-dis-sipating forces, result in regions which are vastly differ-ent agriculturally. These make necessary a character offarming and crop varieties in Wisconsin greatly differ-ent from those of South Carolina. Even in Kansas—inthe two hundred miles north and south and four hundredmiles east and west—are variations in climate whichmake necessary several widely differing methods of soilhandling and different varieties and combinations offarm crops. Every thoughtful farmer will realize, upon a moments llo
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SORGHUM AREAS DEFINED 117 consideration, that the successful farmer in WesternKansas must necessarily follow different methods thanthose practiced in the eastern part of the state. Thatmany Western farmers have failed in a great measure torecognize this, is evidenced by their many years of in-different success through the same farming methods andthe use of the same kind of crops as prevail down East.The farmers of Western Kansas are not alone in theirrefusal to recognize the necessity of agricultural methodspeculiar to their location. This same thing is true, gen-erally, of farmers throughout the sorghum belt. It is certain that farming cannot be most profitablydone without due recognition of the prevailing climaticconditions. Those recommended methods which applyto the regions of lighter rainfall and which are designatedas dry farming, are directed toward moisture conser-vation throughout the year. The principles of such prac-tice have been established as vitally important in thesoil

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