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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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cted for uni-form height and without suckers or branches. This growsto a height of four to four and one-half feet at elevationsof three to four thousand feet. The other is a dwarf milogrowing three to three and one-half feet at the samealtitudes. In these strains branching has been almostentirely overcome, stooling has been greatly checked and75 to 90 per cent of the heads are upright and the re-maining 10 to 25 per cent are not inclined more thanthirty degrees, which is about one-sixth that of thependent heads. The improved varieties, therefore, can beheaded by machinery and even bound into well formedbundles. The accomplishments of the Federal Depart-ment of Agriculture in milo selection is a worthy exampleof the usefulness of that department in improving farmcrops. Selection by the grower to further overcome these ob-jections and develop strains far removed from thesenatural tendencies, is desirable. Select erect, well filled,early-maturing milo heads of the type illustrated, from.
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Interior of Head of Feterita or Sudan Durra.—Compare WithIllustration on Page 236. BETTER GRAIN SORGHUM CROPS 259 stalks of medium height and which have no suckers orbranches. To be able to do this the grower must selectthem in the field. The yield and value of the milo croplargely depends upon the selection of good seed and suchcare until planting time as has been described for kafir. Field Selection of Feterita. In its habits of growth,feterita or Sudan durra is very similar to milo, althoughits heads are naturally erect. The stalks are slender andvary in height from four to seven feet, and under favor-able growing conditions the plant suckers and branchesabundantly. Suckering or branching with feterita islargely dependent upon seasonal or soil conditions andin this respect it differs from milo. As evidence of thevariability of feterita in that respect, some Kansas grow-ers in 1913 reported that the crop did not sucker orbranch at all, others that it branched but did not sucker,an

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