DRY-LAND CROPS 



nodes, or joints, and very long, straight, 

 loose, open seed-heads, usually light-col- 

 ored, which are used in the making of 

 brooms and brushes. The stalk is dry and 

 pithy, lacking the sweet juice of the sac- 

 charine sorghums to which broom corn is 

 most closely related. 



Saccharine Sorghums. 



The sweet sorghums are popularly 

 known by reason of their sweet sap or 

 juice from which syrup and sugar are 

 made. In general, they are of tall and 

 leafy growth, branching only sparingly 

 at the upper nodes, or joints, and not 

 stooling much at the base. The seed-head 

 or panicle varies from the close, compact 

 "club" head of the Sumac sorghum to 

 the loose and often widely spreading 

 head of the Amber variety. The seeds 

 are red in the Sumac and reddish-yellow 

 in the Orange and Amber sorghums, 

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