LEGUME ^ND SORGHUM. 



J^LFJkLFJi ^ VOVVLJiK FORAGE JtW 

 rtRY-WEJlTHER PLJINT. 



«^ in Acrease-Kaffir Corn Valuable 

 Increasing in .ftcrtms^ '\. >> 



Both as a Forage and Grain Crop. 



Two plants wonderful for their already proven 



sh?ip'y as benefactions to the stockgrower but 

 wel niEh indispensable. These are alfalfa 

 7Medica|o sativa? and sorghum, the chief variety 

 of which for forage and gram is Kaftir corn, one 

 nf the manv non-saccharine sorghums. 

 The fir "t official notice of alfalfa was taken by 



the enum-erators in ,89. , wh-^" *%,^^t'i"^l*e 

 total area at 34,384 acres, and each year since 

 has shown a marked extension. In i»92 tliere 

 was shown an increase in the acreage of 82 ^er 

 cent • in 1803 and 1894 a gain of 20 per cent, was 

 made fSr each year, and in 1895 't J^s ™o^e than 

 doubled; in 1896 ^nd ib97 the ncrease was 11 



rn"X«^ir^"iir*;f i'Va^'if " neS 

 ove? thT^revbu's year, reaching a total of 278 477 

 arres In iQoo the acreage was not increasea, 

 buUhe following year witnessed a gam of o^^^^ 

 15 per cent, making the State's total aiea 319,142 



^'^The diversified weather in 1901 served admir- 

 ably to eZhasize the deshability of grounng 

 alfalfa in the middle wcst, and also testified 

 forcibly to its adaptability. The wonderf u per- 



ormances that year of this widely exploited 



nWnt have attracted attention anew to its worth, 



ft hav ng yidded two, three, four and sometimes 



ve cuttings, and the .stockman PO/sessed «f 



even a small acreage is in an ^nv able situation. 



The intelligent Kansas farmers, whose btate tar 



4ft 



