SOKGHUM VAEIETIES FOR THE GEEAT PLAINS. 7 



Description. — Stems medium to slender, one-half to five-eighths of an inch 

 in diameter, 4J to 5* feet tall, lacking both juice and sweetness, having no 

 branches and but few tillers ; leaves 12 to 13, about 2J inches broad and 22 to 26 

 inches long ; head ovoid, mostly erect, sometimes recurved, compact, 3 to 4 

 inches in diameter, 5 to 6 inches long, usually well filled, exserted 4 to 6 inches 

 above the upper leaf sheath ; seeds slightly flattened, medium to large, white, 

 the upper three-fifths exposed from the glumes, shattering little ; glumes broadly 

 ovate to orbicular, red-brown to greenish gray, slightly pubescent, awned. 



White milo is taller and rather more slender than ordinary Dwarf 

 milo, and only about 20 per cent of the seed heads are recurved in 

 ordinary plantings. The seed except for its white color resembles 

 ^hat of ordinary Dwarf milo very closely, but it is usually mature a 



Fig. 5. — Ordinary BlackhuU kaflr (at the left) and Dwarf feterita (at the right), show- 

 ing the superior ability of the feterita to make a seed crop under conditions of extreme 

 drought. Amarillo, Tex., 1913. 



few days earlier, the average growing season for the crop being 88 

 to 96 days. White milo seems to share with feterita the ability to 

 make a seed crop under deficient moisture conditions. 



SCHROCK KAFIR. " 



The Schrock variety of kafir, which is difficult to classify on ac- 

 count of its rather peculiar combination of characters, was discovered 

 by Roy Schrock, a mail carrier at Enid, Okla., in 1912. Seeing 

 a vigorous and very heavily seeded plant growing in a field along 

 his route, he gathered the seed and took it home to plant the follow- 

 ing year. In 1913 Mr. Schrock grew a row of it in his garden and 

 sent a sample to the United States Department of Agriculture for 

 identification. It appears to be a hybrid between some kafir and a 

 sweet sorghum, very likely Black Amber. 



Description. — Stems stout, three-fourths to 1 inch in diameter, 4| to 5 feet 

 tall, medium juicy, rather sweet, with only occasional branches and few tillers ; 



