260 rRINCIPLES OF FEEDING FARM ANIMALS 



to the sweet sorghums. They are very resistant to drought 

 and hot weather and are grown extensively in Kansas, 

 Oklahoma, Texas, and California. They are not grown to 

 any great extent in the corn-belt. In feeding value, their 

 fodders are about the same as corn fodder. Like the sweet 



] i',. To. — A field of milo. (Montgomery, The Corn Crops.) 



sorghums the}^ often contain prussic acid after the growth 

 has been stunted by extreme drought or by frost. 



The broom-corns, kowliangs, and shallu also belong to 

 the sorghums. They have dry, pithy stems and, conse- 

 quently, their fodders are not as valuable for feed as those 

 of the other sorghums. 



