Identifier: sorghumssuremone00borm (find matches)
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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learn regarding feter-ita and what I know of dwarf kafir and milo—the lattergrown from pure, early-maturing strains and under suchmethods of cultivation as are essential in crop produc-tion—I believe that as the principal grain feed crop theusefulness of feterita will not be permanent east of the100th meridian. West of that meridian and extending-to the Rocky Mountains, in all probability it will be-come an important—if not the principal—sorghum graincrop. I am inclined to think that the area between the98th and 100th meridians will be the eastern limit offeterita as a spring planted crop. As a secondary orcatch crop, it will prove valuable on farms east of thislimit and the Eastern Kansas and Eastern Oklahomafarmer who can follow early harvested crops withfeterita will find it an important addition to his presentshort list of supplemental grain feed crops. It will provevaluable, too, when planted following loss of corn orkafir from bugs or other cause. Its early maturity will
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Typical Feterita Plant.—These Stalks From One Seed.—SpreadWas Near Four Feet Before Tying Together for Photographing. BETTER GRAIN SORGHUM CROPS 265 also make it useful as an early grain feed for horses andhogs. The value of feterita or any other crop cannot be es-tablished in a single year, especially when the seasonalconditions of that year are so extremely varying fromthe average or normal, as was the case in 1913. How-ever, the disposition to give feterita a thorough trial isto be commended, but the reckless desertion of estab-lished crops for the new and untried, is to be discouraged. Habits of Growth and Cultivation. The growinghabits of feterita are described above in connection withthe selection of the seed, and what is said regardingsuckering and branching as applying to milo, is also trueof feterita. It is a week earlier than pure dwarf miloand two or three weeks earlier than pure black-hulledkafir. In the sections of longer growing seasons andabundant rainfall the early

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