Show GOOD DRY FARM crapsi 11 NEW VARIETY BECOMING QUITE POPULAR plant also alo known a as 8 sudan durra is 1 valuable for grain and resembles milo except seeds seed are larger and softer the sorghums sorg hums both tor for grain and forage are becoming more and more the principal dependence of farr banners aers in the great plains regi regions ons west of the tha op ona hundredth meridian of longitude and extend extending big west to the rocky mountains and south to the rio grande the lessons of last years intense drought over this region are likely to induce still greater dependence upon these drought resistant crops and less upon corn and the ordinary small grains wide publicity was waa given last summer and tall fall to the excellent showing made by a new sorghum writes fred L petty in the farm and home while heretofore comparatively little known this variety has been tested for a number of years at various experiment stations and Is now becoming coming quite generally disseminated among tanners farmers it Is also known as sudan durra durm the facto concerning are that it la Is early maturing thereby escaping much of the drought danger and Is a valuable grain and orage forage crop it resembles mile except that the seeds are larger softer and white yr gr bluish in color it shatters more than mile but less than the common white durra durm when ripe there are no data to prove that la is in itself more drought resist ant than the other grain sorghums sorg hums at t the government field station at amarillo tex no difference was noted between and dwarf milo as drought resistant crops the expert ment lats in charge state that they inspected a largo large number cl grain sorghum fields in that vicinity and that the good showing made by was wag due to the generally wn thin stand a vital factor with all jooa in a dry season son in kansas this variety provell proved equal to dwarf milo and dwarf kafar both tried and reliable grain sorghums sorg hums in the northwestern part of the state where other sorghums sorg hums dried up made deed and some forage at tho the fort I layes hayea station however dwarf mile was ahead the made forage but no seed the the fact that produced grain an on most moat fields in 1813 1913 a year so dry that few other crops matured has led many farmers to believe that they should abandon ab abdon other tried and proved sorghum crops it like allo and and grow only feterl ta this would undoubtedly be an unwise move few seasons are eo co abnormal as was 1913 and the comparative value of feterl ta sloop except t under extremely abnormal conditions dit ions to la not yet definitely fixed As a safeguard however against the fall ure of other varieties every farmer in III the sorghum growing districts should plant at least a few acres of 0 normally has two serious faults it Is blown down easily and it 11 begins to shatter as soon as ripe last year it produced only one hea per stalk and thus harvesting waa wa easy normally however it sends out suckers at various times so that there are three or four different periods ol of ripening on each stalk unless each head Is cut when ri ripe pethe the seed shatters out on tho the ground this raises a harv harvesting eAtIng difficulty which has not yet been solved in most moat cases last fall actual threshing returns of proved disappointing in comparison with early estimates ti A large number of immature heads were harvested even last year and nearly all this light seed was of course blown out by the threshing machine |