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CHAPTER XVI 



KAFFIR CORN 



In Cut No. 42, is shown a fine growth of kaffir 

 corn planted by Mr. Moench, at Orleans, Ne- 

 braska on July 14, 1914, on spring tilled land, 

 photographed August twentieth, 36 days from 

 planting and 36 inches high. This field made a 

 very marked growth and was fully 70 inches high 

 when harvested. 



Cut No. 43 is another very interesting result in 

 spring tilled land at Norton Kansas, grown by 

 Mr. Arthur Saum, planted July tenth and photo- 

 graphed August twenty-fourth, 42 days after 

 planting and 52 inches high a very interesting 

 field of kaffir corn. 



Kaffir corn is supposed to be something 

 of a drouth resisting plant, from the fact of its 

 habit of closing its doors to any growth during 

 its early stages when the moisture is almost gone. 

 Then if the rain is not too far away, when it does 

 come the kaffir plant makes another attempt to 

 grow; but its growth after such dormant or hiber- 

 nating periods is never very great. In these two 

 and about a dozen other fields similarly handled 

 we observe a very rapid growth, but in no case 

 quite equal to the amber cane, although a similar 

 degree of eagerness by cattle and horses to eat it 

 as against the slower grown or more stunted 

 plants was reported in all cases, indicating the 

 advantage of the quick or forced grown plant. 



