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especially adaptable to semi- arid and hot regions. 

 It may be well, therefore, to present a brief account 

 of these plants to show their value for the interior 

 western country. 



The results of experiments at the Kansas Ex- 

 periment Station are probably applicable for those 

 regions in which the crop is a prominent one, and 

 a brief resume and adaptation of the report of 

 Professor J. G. Haney,^ of that Station, comprises 

 the remainder of this account of kafir corn. 



Varieties for dry regions 



There are many varieties of the non- saccharine 

 sorghums, but only three that have come under 

 the name of kafir corn. The name kafir comes 

 from the name of a tribe of natives of South 

 Africa, whose country is known by the same name 

 of kafir. Kafir corn is sometimes known as Afri- 

 can millet. The three varieties which have received 

 most attention are, in the order they were intro- 

 duced: (1) The White, (2) the Eed, and (3) the 

 Black- hulled White. The last may be easily dis- 

 tinguished from the first by noticing that the chaff 

 or hull which partly envelops the grain is black, 

 while in the first the chaff or hull is nearly the 

 color of the grain; hence, the first is called White 

 and the last Black- hulled White. In the Eed, the 



^Forage and Fodders, Kansas State Board of Agriculture, Report for 1900. 



