Show URY LAND SORGHUMS especially adapted as good drought resistant crops saccharine and non saccharine va can survive and produce abundant yields under the t 1 most moist adverse conditions prof A M ten eyck superintend t ent of the r lort fort hays haya kan experiment station in an address on drought dirouht resistant crops delivered before the western kansas farmers conference said both the saccharine and non sac charine sorghums sorg hums are ake especially adapted for or dryland dry land farming and are well named drought resistant crops these crops can survive and produce abundantly under conditions of drought and hot winds that would destroy almost any other crop grown on the western plains of the saccharine non sorghums sorg hums there are four different types or groups varieties of which are grown more or less extensively in different portions rations of the west there are the kafars of which thero there are three common varle varieties ties the red white and black hulled white the durras burras including white and brown durra milo maize rind and jerusalem corn growing in this country under various names as california wheat mexican wheat egyptian wheat and broom corn of which there are two jeneral general types or varieties the standard and the dwarf in kansas the kahr corn and mil allo 0 maize is grown extensively in the western part of the state these crops furnished umi shed rauch much of the grain feed and a 6 forage and grain crop kafar and milo are superior to corn where the several crops grow squally well producing more fodder per acre and of better quality than corn fodder while the grain is nearly equal to corn in feeding value and largely takes its Z place as an a stock feed throughout the region where corn is not extensively t grown at the kansas station of the varieties named above afir corn has IN proved to be the best producer of df grain and fodder while milo maize ranks ranka second the last named variety and jerusalem corn are grown to a limited extent in western kansas in colorado the milo maize and brown durra are grown more largely than corn Is not so good a producer of grain as or milo at r the kansas experiment station and much less valuable for forage than cane broom corn Is grown only for its brush which usually commands a s high price this i rop Is rapidly coming into prominence in western kansas and nebraska it Is an expensive crop to grow and a crop failure means great loss but the crop especially in dwarf broom corn seems well suited to dryland farming conditions in the more favorable seasons the crop yields well and is very profitable to grow in kansas saccharine sorghum or cane is grown extensively for forage usually the seed is sown broadcast and the crop Is cut and put up like hay bay there is perhaps no forage crop adapted for growing in kansas that will yield as much forage in a single acason season as cane planted as stated above at the kansas station in 1903 77 tons of cured cane fodder were secured at a single cutting and it is possible in some seasons by seeding early to cut two crops i both the saccharine and non sac charine are much alike in the time of planting habits of 0 growth etc neither crop will start well in the spring until the soil Is warm and either cither crop has tho the capacity to remain dormant for a consid period during a drought and then to quickly renew its growth when the conditions are again favorable both crops are great exhausters exha usters of the soil moisture MR and perhaps also of the soil fertility corn especially has gained the reputation of being hard bard on the land it is the general report that wheat and other crops do not grow as well viell after kafar co corn and cane as af after ter corn und and it is claimed that the in burlous effects of the sorghum crop on the land may som sometimes times be observed for several seasons these reports have not been fully tested at the kansas station |