20 BULLETIN 242, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



When a value, believed to be a conservative one, is assigned to the 

 fodder, both crops show a profit from nearly all methods under trial 

 at all the stations. The only two exceptions are milo following milo 

 by spring plowing at Garden City and kafir following summer tillage 

 at Amarillo, where the summer tillage method has been on trial for 

 only three years, all of which have been relatively unfavorable. 



The most important results of the investigations, of which this is 

 a partial report, are the demonstrations that this region is not 

 adapted to the successful growth of small-grain crops, but that it is 

 well adapted to forage crops and to certain types of grain sorghums 

 when proper methods of tillage and crop sequence are practiced. 

 This means that this region is undoubtedly destined again to be- 

 come an important stock-producing section. It yet remains to be 

 determined what classes of live-stock enterprises offer the greatest 

 opportunities to the small farmers who have taken the place of the 

 stockmen who formerly conducted an extensive and profitable busi- 

 ness on the open ranges. It is certain that live stock of some kind 

 must be grown to consume the forage and grain crops which can 

 and will be grown in this region in enormously increasing quanti- 

 ties as its agricultural possibilities become better understood. 



Although these investigations have so far demonstrated that but 

 few crops have proved successful when grown by certain methods, it 

 must not be understood that the limit has been reached either in 

 crops or methods. On the contrary, these experiments tend to show 

 that other crops and other methods may be developed which will 

 produce even better results. 



These investigations are being developed and modified to meet the 

 requirements and the agricultural resources of the southern Great 

 Plains area. The problem of utilizing the forage and grain crops 

 for the production of live-stock products is now of vital importance, 

 and with its solution the agricultural resources of this region will be 

 materially increased. 



WASHINGTON : i;oVKUNMENT PRINTING "I FICH \ 1916 



