Their progress as competitors for popularity 

 since then is indicated by the following: 



1894 -Sorghum, increase, 31 per cent. 



1894— Kaffir corn, increase 103 per cent. 



1895 —Sorghum, increase, 63 per cent. 



1895— Kaffir corn, increase, 93 per cent. 



1896— Sorghum, increase, 27 per cent. 



1896 — Kaffir corn, increase, 102 per cent 



1897— Sorghum, decrease, 2 per cent. 



1897 — Kaffir corn, decrease, .3 per cent. 



1898 — Sorghum, increase, 10 per cent. 



1898— Kaffir corn, increase, 44 per cent. 



1S99— Sorghum, increase, 16 per cent. 



1899— Kaffir corn, increase, 9 per cent- 



1900 — Sorghum, increase, 21 per cent. 



1900— Kaffir corn, increase, 11 per cent. 



190 1 — Sorghum, decrease, .14 per cent. 



1901 — Kaffir corn, decrease, 4.08 per cent. 



In 1901 the sorghum area amounted to 541,821 

 acres and of Kaffir corn 618,816 acres, showing 

 that in the past eight years the latter had not 

 only overtaken the former, but distanced it by 

 76,995 acres, or 14 per cent. During the same 

 period sorghum gained 309 per cent, or 409616 

 acres, and the increase in Kaffir corn was 1,219 

 per cent, or 571,905 acres. 



While the figures disclose the large difference 

 between the annual plantings of these two 

 varieties of sorghums, they by no means depre- 

 ciate the value of the saccharine or disturb it 

 in the ranks of the best known forage plants in 

 the world, but are intended to show the mar- 

 velous strides being made by a recent competi- 

 tor claiming not only a foliage of first-class 

 forage quality, but a fattening value in its grain 

 almost if not quite equal to Indian corn ; virtues 

 which practical farmers and scientists affirm, 

 while declaring it successfully and profitably 

 grown on land high or low, rich or poor, and 

 whether the season be wet or dry. 



Farmers who have become acquainted with 

 Kaffir corn are planting a larger per cent, of 

 their poorer land to it yearly and confining their 

 Indian corn to the best parts of their farms, 

 where even then the Kaffir corn in some seasons 



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