UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 698 



Cootribntion from the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 



Washington, D. G. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER 



October 31, 1918 



GRAIN-SORGHUM EXPERIMENTS IN 

 THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS 



By 



CARLETON R. BALL, CereaUst in Charge, and BENTON E. 

 ROTHGEB, Scientific Assistant in Charge of Grain-Sorghnm 

 and Broom-Corn Investigations, OfSce of Cereal Investigations 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction ...<, 1 



The Panhandle 2 



Location 2 



Altitude and Drainage 4 



Soil 4 



Climatic Conditions 4 



Recent Agricultural History c . . . 16 



The Cereal Field Stations .... 16 



The Grain Sorghums 17 



Classification 17 



Page 

 The Grain Sorghums— Continned 



Experimental Conditions . . . . o 20 



Tarietal Experiments 25 



The Milo-Durra Group .... 26 



The Kafir Group 53 



The Kaoliang Group 74 



The Shalln Group 86 



Comparative Yields of All the 



Groups 87 



Conclusions ,..,.„ 89 



WASHINGTON 

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1918 



