DRY-FARMING 



applied because of the yellowish color of 

 the seeds and also because a white-seeded 

 sorghum, related to Kaffir corn, was then 

 being sold as "White Millo Maize." It 

 is now commonly known as Dwarf Milo, 

 Yellow Milo and Milo "Maize," but the 

 last name should not be used as it is apt 

 to confuse it with corn. The simple term 

 milo is the best. 



Milo was first introduced into the 

 coimtry from Africa about 1880. In the 

 Panhandle of Texas, Oklahoma, and 

 Kansas it is widely grown on account of 

 its drought resistance and comparative 

 earliness. Dwarf milo is merely ordinary 

 milo grown in the dry plains where, 

 owing to lack of moisture, it becomes low 

 in stature. The heads of the common 

 varieties of milo are mostly pendent and 

 consequently hard to harvest; but the 

 improved or selected types developed by 

 the Department of Agriculture have 

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