106 FOUAGE CHOPS 



White forty -three bushels per acre. The yield of 

 grain per acre by years is as follows: 



Red Black-hulled White 

 bushels bushels 



1896 41 48 



1897 41 48 



1898 28 33 



Totals 110 129 



Averages 37 43 



111 western Kansas, many farmers raise the 

 Red, thinking it a little hardier and earlier. In 

 central Kansas some feeders raise both the Eed 

 and the Black- hulled White, and feed alternately, 

 the stock seeming to relish the change. 



Records show the Red to be from a w^eek to 

 ten days earlier than the Black-hulled White, but 

 this difference is of little importance in central 

 Kansas. Kafir corn planted the middle of May is 

 ripe the middle of September. 



Soils and conditions of growth 



Kafir corn will grow very nearly within the 

 same climatic limits as Indian corn, and under 

 ordinary conditions will produce a crop when corn 

 does. However, it seems to require a slightly 

 warmer climate for its best development. When 

 its growth is being held back by unfavorable con- 

 ditions, frost comes before it is ripe. It responds 

 as readily to good soil and favorable conditions as 



