BREEDING MILLET AND SOEGO FOR DROUGHT ADAPTATION. 



At the Belle Fourche station, Newell, S. Dak., in drilled plats, 

 Siberian millet, A. D. I. No. 4-3, produced larger yields than the 

 strains of Kursk millet in 1912 and 1914, while in 1913 the yield was 

 about the same. In cultivated rows, the highest yielding strain in 

 1912 was Dakota Kursk No. 3. At the Ardmore (S. Dak.) Field 

 Station in 1914 the Siberian strain, No. 4-3, yielded slightly higher 

 than the Kursk strains. At the Mandan (N. Dak.) Field Station the 

 yields of Dakota Kursk millet and Siberian No. 4-3, based on the 

 average of triplicate plats, were exactly the same, 4,300 pounds per 

 acre. (See Table III.) 



Table III. — Yields of millet hay in drilled plats at Newell, S. Dak., 1912 to 1914, inclu- 

 sive, and at Ardmore, S. Dak., and Mandan, N. Dak., in 1914. 



Variety and number. 



Newell, S. Dak. 



Ardmore, 

 S. Dak. 



Mandan, 

 N. Dak. 





19121 



1913 2 



1914 2 



1914 2 



1914 3 



Dakota Kursk: 



A. D.I. No. 3 



A. D. I. No. 3-2 



Pounds. 

 6,410 



Pounds. 

 3,040 

 3,250 



3,650 



2,C50 

 3,750 



Pounds. 

 1,300 



Pounds. 

 2,0S0 



Pounds. 

 4,300 



Kursk: 



A. D.I. No. 5 



6,320 



6,400 

 6,350 



1,500 



2,000 



4,240 



A.D.I. No. 10 





A. D. I. No. 13-3 



















6,370 



3,330 



1,400 



2.040 



4,270 







Siberian, A. D. I. No. 4-3 



6,850 



3,300 



2,000 



2,170 



4,300 





1 Yields based on single plats. 



2 Yields based on the average of duplicate plats. 



3 Yields based on the average of triplicate plats. 



SEED PRODUCTION OF MILLET. 



Millet of the foxtail type (Chaetochloa italica) is grown chiefly for 

 forage, and yet some varieties, especially the Kursk, produce very 

 good crops of seed. When millet is grown for seed in the Great 

 Plains it is generally safest, in order to insure a crop, to plant in 

 cultivated rows. When planted in this way Kursk millet has seldom 

 failed to produce a profitable crop. Table IV gives a summary of 

 the yield of seed at Akron, Colo., and Newell, S. Dak. The lowest 

 yield recorded at Akron was in 1910, when the average from all 

 strains of Kursk millet was at the rate of 17.8 bushels per acre. In 

 1912 the six Kursk strains yielded at the rate of nearly 36 bushels 

 per acre. At Newell in 1912 five strains of Kursk millet yielded at 

 the rate of 21.7 bushels per acre and the two strains of Siberian millet 

 at the rate of 14.3 bushels per acre. 



There is a demand from commercial seed companies for pure millet 

 seed, and it would seem that growing this crop for seed is likely to 

 become a profitable industry in some sections of the Great Plains. 

 It can, no doubt, be raised more economically on the cheaper lands 

 of the Great Plains than on the more expensive lands of the prairie 

 region farther east. There is certainly every reason why farmers in 



