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Show TO GUARD AGAINST DROUGHT Farmers of Western Kansas Plant About Half of Their Milo and Kafir Crop quite Thinly. One form Of Insurance against drought Is used by some successful farmers In western Kansas. They plant about half of their mllo ckaflr crop quite thinly each year. v, vorable season ' follows -they i yields on the area planted a& .'1 mat rate, and fair yields on thVurea thinly planted. If tbe season is dry. they get light yields or none on the area normally planted, but still get a fair yield from the feeding grain every year, with but a small loss In total yield In the good seasons. As a matter of fact, if a farmer were to plant his entire area thinly every year and thereby obtain fewer bushels In a five-year period than he would by normally planting, bis thin planting might still be the most profitable. prof-itable. Itrge yields In favorable seasons sea-sons and poor yields or no yields at all In unfavorable seasons mean selling sell-ing a surplus at a low price and buying buy-ing In times of scarcity at high prices. A yield of one hundred bushels bush-els per acre In five years at tbe rate of 20 bushels per acre every year might, therefore, tie worth more to tbe grower than 146 bushels In five years, with a surplus In favorable seasons sea-sons and a famine lu tbe dry seasons. |