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KAFFIR CORN AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR INDIAN CORN. 



" The saccharine sorghums, after being subjected 

 to thorough tests through a long series of years, 

 have been accorded a high place among the forage 

 plants of America. In one respect, however, the 

 sugar sorghums did not meet the requirements of the 

 central and western trans-Missouri country. The 

 requirements were these: 



" i. A plant with great drought-resisting powers. 



"2. A plant cheaply grown, cheaply harvested, 

 cheaply cured, and cheaply fed. 



" 3. A plant which would be practically a substi- 

 tute for corn in the production and value of grain. 



" The sugar sorghums meet all these requirements 

 except the last. As a purely forage plant it stands 

 without a rival. 



" What is needed in the trans-Missouri country, in 

 addition to the sweet sorghums, is a plant which has 

 all the staying qualities of the former, but which 

 exerts its energies in the production of grain high 

 in quality and quantity. Such a plant would come 

 nearer a substitute for Indian corn than the sugar 

 sorghums, and the two together would supplement 

 each other, and combined would meet all the re- 

 quirements for feed in the trans-Missouri country. 

 This kind of a plant Kansas farmers believe they 

 have discovered in Kaffir corn. 



" Kaffir corn is one of the many varieties of the 



