( Read Preface ) 102 



REQUIREylENTS .\ND METHODS OF GRGTEI'G SORGHUTJ 



Time to Maturity - 100 - 180 days 



Life- Annual 



Soil Requirements- 



Surface: Will grow on poorer, drier land than any other cereal, but 

 responds to good handling. 3' of good moisture re- 

 taining rather than heavy loan soil desirable. 



Climatic Requirements- Warm nights, and hot sunny days, no frost. 



VJater Requirements and Irrigation- Moisture equivalent to 15". If available, 



throughout growing season. 



Calendar of Operations- 



preparing Seed Bed : Fall - Plowed 6 - 8" 



March - Replowed 6" deep or disked, and v/orked 



dorm into seed bed. 

 Sometim.es sown on grain land in June or July 



following the removal cf the cereal. 

 Irrigated and plowed before seeding. 



Planting: 



Time : Non-saccharine, April 1 to July 1 

 Saccharine, April 1 to July 1 



Quantity of Seed: 



Non-saccharine, 6 - 10-nf 

 Saccharine, 4 - 6y 



Method and Distance: 



Non-saccharine, 3' rows, 8" apart in row 

 Saccharine, 3' rows, 4" apart in row 



Care of Growing Crop: 



Cultivated once or ttrice during early period of growth ( fiay and 

 June). Generally grov/n v/ithout irrigation, where water 

 table is high, except when following grain crop. Irriga- 

 tion then given before preparing seed bed. 



Varieties : 



Non-saccharine- D^Jirarf r.!ilo ) 



Duro (ViTiite find Brown) ) 



(Egyptian corn) jFor forage, grain, and 



Feterita ) silage 



Shallu (Egyptian wheat) ) 



