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Title: Sorghums : sure money crops
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Borman, Thomas Allen, 1872-
Subjects: Sorghum
Publisher: Topeka : The Kansas Farmer Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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loose and open appearanceof the head was due to the fact that near the center stemthere were no seeds, thus accounting in part for the lightweight of the head. Seed-bearing stems having seed onlyone-half their length, are comparable to the corn cobwhich is only half filled. A close examination of the illustration will result inobtaining a good idea of the low-yielding type of head,and the above points are mentioned only to call attentionto the difference between this head and the high-yieldingtype elsewhere shown. It should be kept in mind thatthe dissected head is not an extreme example of low-yielding type. Every reader has seen fields in which theprevailing type of head was much less desirable than thatshown, but this type is presented because it comes nearbeing that of the average field. The three heads shown on page 226 were typical of afield which on upland in Shawnee County in 1913 yielded25 bushels of grain per acre, and were awarded first prize 236 SORGHUMS: SURE MONEY CROPc
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Interior of High-Yielding Kafir Head.—Shows Large Seed-Bearing Capacity. BETTER GRAIN SORGHUM CROPS 237 at the Indian Creek, Shawnee County, Grange Fair, Octo-ber 2 and 3, 1913. This field of kafir matured a month inadvance of killing frost. The grower has for years beenselecting for early maturity and his success is amplydemonstrated by the performance of the seed in a yearlike 1913, when most fields in that neighborhood werefrosted in the bloom. This is a striking example of main-taining earliness by selecting early-maturing heads. Typical High-Yielding Heads. The picture on page236 shows the conformation of a high-yielding head ofkafir. This head measured sixteen and one-half inchesfrom tip to the first joint at the bottom. It weighed eightounces when thoroughly dry and after losing consider-able of its seed as a result of many handlings. The mainstem had nine joints from which fifty-two seed-bearingstems grew, and each stem was seeded almost its fulllength. In this head all of t

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