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Africa (Stapf, I.e.). Shallu requires 



long — from 125-140 days — ^favourable season to mature, and 

 for this reason is not considered so dependable a grain crop a& 

 *' I\Iilo," *' Feterita," or early varieties of '' Kafir " under dry- 

 land conditions, without irrigation; the plant suckers freely, 

 grows to a height of from 5-8 ft., with large open heads and 

 comparatively dry stems (Rothgeb, U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers'" 



Bull, seq.). 



Ref.^'' Shallu, or Egyptian Wheat," Rothgeb, U.S. Dept. 

 Agric. Farmers' Bull, No. 827, 1917, pp. 1-8; iUustrated. 



Sorghum saccharatum, Auct. vix Linnaeus. 



Annual; upwards of 10 ft. in height, stout; pith juicy and 

 sweet; otherwise characters in general much the same as the 

 Sorghums grown for grain. Seed reddish brown, 



III— Comer & Le Due, Sorghum Sugar, t. I ('* Early 

 Amber"), t. 2 (''Chinese Sorgo " or ^^ Sumac "), t. 3 (''White 

 Liberian " or '' Gooseneck " or '' White Imphee "), t. 4 C Hon- 

 duras " or "Honey Cane"); Piper, Forage PI. p. 266, t. 2 

 (" Gooseneck Sorgo " — a field in Texas). 



Vernac, names. — Takanda (Kontagora, Dalziel) ; Durra negro- 



(Egypt, Dudgeon) ; Hiassa — Kala (Middle Niger, Dumas) . — 



Sorgho, Sugar Sorgo, Chinese Sorgo {3Iontgomery)y Sweet 



Sorghum, Sorghum. 



Cultivated in China, India, United States. The Sugar 



Sorghum cultivated in Kontagora (Dalziel, Hausa Bot. Voc,^ 



p. 91; Bull. Imp. Inst., 1907, p. 260), in Egypt . (Dudgeon, 



Egyptian Agric. Prod., Cairo, No, 1a, 1915, p. 29), and the Middle 



Niger (Dumas, Agric. prat, pays chauds, v. 1, 1905, p. 459; 



Stapf, Fl. Trop. Air., I.e. p. 153), probably also belong here, 



A forage crop of importance in the United States, where also 



it is utiHsed for the extraction of sugar and syrup. Experiments 



were being made in the States about 1880, and of the varieties 



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grown at that time there are three — " Early Orange," " Earlj 

 Amber," and '' Honey Cane " — ^in the collection presented by the 

 United States Department of Agriculture to the Museum at 

 Kew in 1882, that are recommended, together with '' Sumac," 

 " Gooseneck," and '' Planter," for cultivation at the present 

 time (Ball, Montgomery, Conner, Piper, seq. ) . ' * Gooseneck 

 Sorgo is known as " Texas Seeded Ribbon Cane " (Ball, U,S- 

 Dept. Agric. Bur. PL Industry, Circ. No. 50, 1910). The total 

 amount of Sorghum syrup produced in the United States in 

 1909 was 16,532,282 gallons — chiefly from the States of 

 Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas and North Carolina 

 (Hitchcock, Text-book Grasses, p. 73). 



The Northern Nigeria plant (Dalziel, I.e.) is said to resemble 

 Guinea Com " [Sorghum grown for grain] in general habit, to 

 grow on any kind of soil and to be reaped before " Guinea Corn 

 18 planted. The Egjrptian plant (Dudgeon, I.e.) is reported to 

 be only planted as a fodder crop, though it is not largely cultivated 

 in any part of the country. The first cutting — yield about 



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