630 



Bui^ivETiN 84 



TABIvE IvXXXVIII. VARIETY TE^ST OF GRAIN SORGHUMS, SULPHUR SPRING 

 VALIvE^Y DRY-FARM, 1914 AND 1915 



Variety 



1914 



Kowliang 



White milo 



Dwarf '* , 



*i »< 



i( *i 



a u 



Feterita 



a 

 it 

 n 



a 



a 

 (( 



Shallu ///^'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 



Black-hiiile'd Wlii'te' Kafir 



1915 

 Feterita 



ti 



Kowliang 



a 

 i( 



Standard milo , 



U it 



Dwarf milo 



Shallu ....'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 



it 



Black-hiiile'd White' Kafir 



it a n 



African Kafir 



Date 

 planted 



7-8 



7-9 



7-13 



7-16 



7-16 



7-25 



7-16 



7-16 



7-16 



7-16 



7-18 



7-18 



7-18 



7-20 



7-18 



7-27 



7-15 



7-16 



7-30 

 7-31 



5-22 



5-22 



7-28 



5-25 



5-25 



5-22 



4-23 



7-31 



5-4 



5-25 



5-25 



4-30 



5-lQ 



5-25 



stand 



% 



65 



80 

 85 

 80 

 70 

 80 

 70 

 50 

 68 

 60 

 50 

 70 

 50 

 80 

 100 

 70 

 80 

 75 



97 



95 



90 

 88 

 90 

 89 

 77 

 80 

 90 

 80 

 85 

 85 

 80 

 70 

 85 



Date 

 harvested 



10-9 



10-28 



10-29 



10-28 



10-28 



11-16 



10-28 



10-5 



11-18 



10-1 



10-17 



11-16 



11-16 



10-29 



11-27 



11-28 



11-29 



10-28 



11-15 

 11-15 

 10-8 



8-30 

 11-15 



9-15 

 11-18 

 10-12 



9^ 

 11-15 



9-8 

 ■10-23 



9-26 

 10-23 

 11-5 

 10-30 



Yields per acre 



Heads 



Pounds 



80 

 500 

 1012 

 470 

 414 

 128 

 401 

 350 

 252 



1215 

 308 

 592 



900^ 

 860' 

 288 

 384 

 260 

 572 

 1947' 

 344 



'640 



"690' 

 472' 



'70i' 

 2926 



stover 



Pounds 



432 

 2684 

 2112 



735 

 3212 



960 

 2301 

 1105 

 1086 

 1084 



948 

 3310 



619 



816 

 2400 

 1590 

 1664 

 2392 



2393 



1243 

 1224 

 2592 



416 

 1332 

 3857 

 2368 

 2640 



853 

 3256 



771 



509 

 8184 

 1611 

 4466 



1 — Calculated from green weig-ht. 



plot of Early Amber produced 488 pounds of heads per acre and 

 1600 pounds of stover. 



In 1915 Sumac was grown in addition to Early Amber and 

 Club-top. The highest yield was from a plot of Club-top planted 

 May 22, which returned 1552 pounds of heads and 4039 pounds of 

 stover per acre. Again Early Amber was the only variety which 

 fully matured. 



In 1916 the forage sorghums were grown for ensilage, best 



