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Texas which lies south and east of the Panhandle. It also deserves 

 a more extended trial in New Mexico, Arizona, and southern Cali- 

 fornia, and through central Oklahoma and western Kansas. Several 

 enthusiastic reports concerning Dwarf hegari have been received from 

 southwestern Nebraska. The Nebraska branch experiment station 

 at Curtis rates it above feterita for their conditions. 



Dwarf feterita and Improved feterita should be substituted for 

 ordinary feterita where the latter is now being grown. Feterita has 

 shown an ability to produce crops under very low moisture condi- 

 tions, and through a long series of years these two selected strains 

 will very likely make a larger grain yield than either Dwarf milo 

 or Dwarf kafir on the high plains of northwestern Texas, western 

 Kansas, and eastern Colorado. The most grievous fault of feterita, 

 that of poor germination, can perhaps be remedied by selective 

 breeding. 



White milo has made an enviable record in the matter of seed pro- 

 duction at all of the field stations concerned in these reports. When 

 exhibited at State and county fairs in the sorghum region it has often 

 taken first premium in competition with the ordinary milo. The 

 quality of fodder produced is rather inferior, but from the stand- 

 point of grain production alone it is worthy of a much more extended 

 planting in northwestern Texas, western Oklahoma, western Kansas, 

 eastern Colorado, and western Nebraska. 



