Show new sorghum named after buffalo bill bil 19 cody sorghum sorg hurh Is named for or col william F cody who earned his pop ular nickname of buffalo bill when he contracted to be a food provider for the early railroad con construe tion camps and hunted buffalo in the vicinity of 0 hays in western kansas where the naw sorghum was bred ed it Is a new variety having so called aled waxy seeds 4 the breadth breeding of cody sorghum has made pos possible ible the manufacture of a starchy food suitable its as a dessert that can fully replace the quick cooking tap lodi 0 1 in testing and breeding waxy 8 sor 0 r ghumm for several years in the hope that special uses might be found tor for that special type of starch investigators inies ti found one new strain later named cody proved superior tor for manufacturing A seed supply lyof of only 20 pounds from the 1041 crop was pyramided pyra in 1912 1942 and 1943 so that a commer commercial clil crop for procesa pro processing cesi of 32 million pounds of af grit grain in was produced to meet Wart wartime irne needs in 1944 cody was selected from a cross between leoti a tall sweet sorghum having small brown waxy seeds and club a productive grain sorghum having large white seeds cody hat has large waxy seeds free from the objectionable coloring present in other r sorghum sends scads that make cliffa cult the separation of a white starch the stalk of codias cody is shorter than the stalk of either parent it is short enough so that most of the crop is cut with combines |