Show GOOD DRY r ARM CROPS ILI NEW VARIETY arr COMING QUITE POPULAR plant aleo also known as an sudan 7 b durn i valuable for grain and borao y resembles Rea emble milo except e sen cd are Lar gerand soper er the sorghums sorg hums bota tor for grain forage aro am becoming more and nor more the principal depend dependence enco of tanner farmers in tho the great plains regions west oatt ono one hundredth meridian of 0 longitude longi iud and extending west to the R rutx and south to the rb IUD grande ta leeo of last year ia tense tenso drought over thia this region art ai likely to induce still greater depend dep enli ence once upon these drought crops and loss 1 upon corn ard theorda the erdl di nary email small grains wide publicity was given lat last sum ui mur anu t 2 4 foil fall to the excellent made by rita a new sorghum eor ghun writes fred aa L potty in the carvi and home whilo heretofore compart com Uve ly little known this variety hai has bee beer tested for a number of years at urt varl ous experiment stations and la Is now becoming b quito quite generally disseminated among farmers it Is also known u sudan durra the facts concerning art are that it la to early maturing thereby ea e caping much of the drought danger and Is a valuable grain and fora crop it resembles milo except that the seeds are larger softer and whit or bluish in color it shatters more than milo but leso less than the common white durra durm when ripe there are no data to prove that fet erita Is in itself more drought resist ant than the other grain sorghums sorg hume at the gover government emerit field station at am ama rillo tex no difference as noted be b tween and dwarf milo ai as I 1 drought resistant crops the expert dentists ment lata ts in charge state that they la in specter a large number of grain sor sop bum fielde in that vicinity and that the good showing made by via ft a due to the generally thin stands standa stand s a vital factor with all crops in a dry season in kansas this variety proved equal to dwarf milo and dwarf both tried and rel reliable lable grain sorghums sorg hums lo 10 t the he northwestern part of the state i where other sorghum dried up fatir ita made seed anti some me forage at lut fort hayes station however darf allo was ahead the mad made forage but no seed the tact fact that produced gral on most fields in 1913 a year so dry that few other crops matured has led many farmers to believe that they should abandon other tried and proved sorghum crops like milo and afir and grow only this would un be an unwise move few seasons are eo iso abnormal as was aas 1913 and the comparative aralue of except under extremely abnormal con dillons dit lons ions is not yet definitely fixed As a safeguard however against the fall fail uro ure of other varieties every far farmer mer in tho th sorghum growing districts should plant at least a few fea acres of normally has two serious faults it is blown down easily and it begins to sf shatter iatter as soon as tipa 1 last sear it produced oni one head per stalk and thus harvesting waa was easy normally however it out suckers at various times so that there are three or four different pe periods rhods ot of ripening on each stalk unless each head ia Is cut when ripe the seed shatters out on tha ground thie this raises a harvesting difficulty ahn has not yet been solved in most cases last fall actual threshing re returns turris of le terita proved digap pointing in comparison with early estimates ti A large number of immature heads were nero harvested narve eted even last ear and nearly all this light seed was ot of course blown out by the threshing machine |