34 FORAGE CROPS. 



A wonderful field lies open for the growth of 

 sorghum in all the states which border on the 

 Mississippi and Ohio rivers, and also in the 

 lower Atlantic and Gulf states. In New Eng- 

 land and the adjacent states it will also be freely 

 grown. But in the Rocky mountain states, although 

 it has a mission, it is less important than that of their 

 great forage plant, alfalfa. The best adaptation for 

 sorghum pasture in Canada is found in southern 

 Ontario, but it will also grow well in other sections. 

 And the least adaptation probably will be found for 

 it in British Columbia. 



Place in the Rotation. The place given to sor- 

 ghum in the rotation will be much the same as that 

 given to corn ; hence nearly all that was said of corn 

 under this head will equally apply to sorghum. (See 

 Page 15.) Like corn, it may fitly be made to come 

 after a cereal crop when the land is foul, after winter 

 rye, winter oats, rape or crimson clover, when one 

 or the other of these has been pastured off; or, in 

 southern latitudes, after a crop of early matured mar- 

 ket products. Figure 5 shows a crop of sorghum and 

 rape, the third crop grown on the land for the season, 

 \ and Figure 6 a crop of sorghum and rye. The 

 order in these crops was, rye, sorghum, sorghum 

 and rape. It may also be sown as a catch crop on 

 lands that are being summer fallowed. Sorghum 

 pasture should in a sense be made a cleaning crop; 

 hence it may best be followed in the regular rotation 

 with some cereal. But when a succession of forage 

 plants is wanted in the rotation, sorghum may be 

 followed with winter rye, or winter oats. 



Soil. The soils that are best suited to the 

 growth of corn are also those that are, in the main, 



