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in Chapter Four, instead of being put directly into the 

 soil, the bacteria may be put on the seed by wetting it 

 with a liquid containing them. Throughout the West 

 the bacteria that are essential to the success of the crop 

 are quite commonly found in all soil, and for that reason 

 inoculation is not so necessary there as in the East. In 

 California the bacteria that are needed grow on the 

 roots of a wild legume called " bur clover." 



The sorghums. This large group of plants includes Varieties of 

 broom corn, the sweet sorghums, kafir corn, milo, sor 9 hum 

 Egyptian corn, and others not so well known. Broom 

 corn does not make good feed for stock and it is raised 

 only for the long brush on which the seed grows. The 



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FIG. 94. Important sorghums: broom corn; sweet sorghums (honey, sumach, 

 planter's friend, and amber sometimes called " sugar sorghums ") ; and grain 

 sorghums, including kafir (red, blackhull, pink), milo, feterita, Egyptian corn, 

 and shallu. 



