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leaves. The flowers are borne in a terminal panicle, varying 

 in size and form with the variety. The seeds are red or 

 reddish yellow in color, protruding somewhat from between 

 the dark red or black glumes. 



428. Importance. The sweet sorghums are grown quite 

 generally for forage in the South and Southwest and to a less 



Fig. 104. Sorghum grown an rows for forage. 



extent in other portions of the country. In the Central 

 states, corn is the principal coarse forage crop, and sorghum 

 occupies a minor place, though it is grown in a limited way. 

 No accurate figures on the total acreage devoted to the pro- 

 duction of sorghum for forage are obtainable, but in Kansas, 

 where the crop is perhaps more important than in any other 

 state, 500,000 acres are grown annually. It is quite probable 



