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and Link Uybrid sorghum, pearl millet, tcosinto, Blonnt Prolific corn, 

 Brazilian Flour corn, and pop corn grown at the station in 1890. 



Kansas Station, Bulletin No. 18, December, 1890 (i)p. 18). 



Experiments with forage plants, O. C. Georgeson, M. S., IT. 

 M. ('OTTRELL, M. S., AND W. SiiELToN (pj). 175-101).— In view of the 

 wide variation in the anionnt of rainfall in Kansas in dill\'r«'nt seasons, 

 it is ver^' desirable to find forage plants which will withstand drouth 

 and furnish fodder for cattle when the corn crop fails. In 1S9(>, for 

 example, owing to drouth during July and August antl the early 

 frost in Septcinher, the corn (troi) on the farm of the Kansas Agri- 

 cultural College did not furnish more than one third of the food re<iuired 

 to carry the college herd through the winter. A table shows that the 

 average rainfall in the months of May, .Tunc, and didy, in the region of 

 tiie station, has averagt'(l iL'.'.tT inches during the past '.V2 years. In 

 1889 the rainfall for months amounted to 17.S."» inches, whih> in 1S9U 

 it was oidy iifti inches. 



Nonsdcrhariiif rdrictics of siyr{/liiim. — Tlic ex]»criencc at the station 

 iiulicatesthatthe non saccharine varieties of sorghum should be jdau'ed 

 in drills and cultivated in the sanu' manner as corn, and that |danting 

 in rows ."> feet apart with the stalks from 1 to S inches apart in the 

 rows, gives the most satisfactory results. "A greater yiehl per a(;re 

 can bo se(;ured by planting the rows 2 feet to 30 inches a])art, but 

 the narrow space renders the work of cultivation much moie diflicult. 

 As soon as the seed becomes hard the crop slionld be cut and shocked. 

 * • * Tlie lu'ads should be cut olVand tiiieshed and the grain ground 

 as line as possible for the best results, nnd the fodder sliouhl be feil iti 

 racks." 



The following is a summary of experiments in ISSK miuI 1S!M> with 

 six non saccharine varieties of sorghnm: 



' Killod by frost lioforo seoil inntiirnl. 



r»rief descriptive notes of each of the abovementione<l vari«»ties were 

 given, as well as a list of 45 importe*! varieties, chielly from India and 

 China, which were tested in 1S90. Tabulated data and descriptive 

 notes are given for eight of these foreign varieti«'s which matured s«'ed 

 before frost. 



