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row space is what determines the yield. Selections are best made in 

 the field as soon as the first heads mature. Only leafy, erect plants 

 that have no side branches and little tendency to produce suckers 

 should be chosen. The head should be entirely free from the boot, 

 large, and well filled from butt to tip. Such plants, if seeded thickly 

 enough, will produce as much seed as the stooling type and will be 

 much easier to harvest on account of the more uniform maturity of 

 the heads. The field should be rogued consistently each season to 

 remove other types of sorghum if the grain is intended for home 

 planting or for sale as seed. 



SUMMARY. 



Feterita is a sorghum from the British Egyptian Sudan, in Africa. 

 It is a durra, related to white durra and to milo, with slender stems 

 4 to 7 feet high under varying conditions, erect heads, and large, 

 rather soft, Avhite grains. 



Extravagant claims have been made for feterita by uninformed 

 or interested persons. Experiments show it to be a good grain and 

 forage crop, but not in any way meriting extraordinary praise. It 

 has proved about equal to milo in yield. 



All cultural operations are much the same as for milo and kafir, 

 though certain differences are pointed out. 



Feterita is newly introduced and quite varitable. Therefore seed 

 selection and improvement should he practiced in each district where 

 it is grown in order to obtain adapted strains. 



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