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latter use they are relatively much more valuable than 

 lor the former. As a food for horses, cattle, sheep, swine 

 and poultry the grain from Milo maize is nearly as valu- 

 able as the food from corn. It may be grown successfully 

 save on the high elevations from the northern border of 

 Colorado southward. 



The Kafir corns are less tall and more stocky than 

 the sweet sorghums. They sustain erect, compact and 

 stubby heads. They are more succulent in the stem and 

 leafy in the growth than Milo maize, and in drought 

 periods they retain their greenness for a longer period 

 than the Milo maize plants, hence they are somewhat 

 superior to these for fodder uses. 



The saccharine sorghums are better adapted to 

 northerly areas of the dry belt than the other sorghums 

 Above the parallel of 45 they do less well than corn, and 

 below 40 less well than the non-saccharine sorghums. 

 The Dhuoras may be successfully grown as far north- 

 as, say, 41, on the lower altitudes, and on elevations even 

 higher than 4,000 feet in southern Colorado. Kafir corn 

 calls for somewhat warmer seasons and requires more 

 time in which to mature growth. They are all drought- 

 resistant, and probably in the following order: Kafir 

 corn, Milo maize, sorghum. Each of these may cease to 

 grow for a time and may subsequently continue growth 

 when rain has added sufficiently to the moisture, but 

 Kafir corn is best able to endure long periods of drought 

 and to recover from the same. The seeds of all of these 

 are low in germinating power, and the plants grow but 

 slowly at the first. They should not be planted until 

 both soil and season are reasonably warm. 



Other sorghums may be grown, as, for instance, 

 Jerusalem corn, rice corn, broom corn, and Kaoling. The 

 latter is a Chinese grain sorghum, characterized by early 

 maturing qualities. Shallu is a sorghum introduced' by 

 the Louisiana experiment station about 1890. In certain 



