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PRINCIPLES OF FEEDING FARM ANIMALS 



tain sugar in appreciable amounts. Both the sweet and 

 grain sorghums are used to a large extent for human food 

 in Asia and Africa. In this country the grain sorghums 

 are grown to considerable extent, and 

 the sweet sorghums to a sUght extent, 

 for stock-feeding. The sweet sor- 

 ghums are not used for grain but for 

 forage. Being drought-resistant, the 

 grain sorghums are especially valuable 

 as substitutes for corn in the semi- 

 arid states of the West and South- 

 west, such as Kansas, Oklahoma, and 

 Texas. 



The principal grain sorghums are 

 kafir corn, milo-maize, feterita, kowli- 

 ang, and shallu. The seeds are small, 

 round, hard, and of various colors. 

 They are borne in large clusters at the 

 top of the stalk of the plant, which 

 somewhat resembles corn in appear- 

 ance. 



The grain contains more carbohy- 

 drates, but less protein and fat than 

 corn. It may be used for all classes 

 of live stock and is perhaps about 

 90 per cent as valuable as corn. It 

 should be threshed and ground for fattening cattle, while it 

 may be fed threshed or in the head to working horses and 

 to sheep. It may be fed unthreshed to idle horses, dairy 

 cows, and young stock in general. It should be threshed and 

 ground for hogs. 



Fig. 39. — A panicle of 

 rice. (Livingston, Field 

 Crop Production.) 



