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Ninety-eight per cent of the entire acreage was produced 

 in four States. The above figures do not include that 

 sown as forage. From the Kansas State Board of Agri- 

 culture, however, we have data for the census year show- 

 ing 631,040 acres sown for forage, or about four times as 













Fig. 105. — Two heads of Mile, showing good and poor types. 



much as that harvested for grain. On the same basis for 

 the United States it would appear the the non-saccharine- 

 sorghum acreage for 1909 was about 1,250,000 acres. 

 The acreage has since increased slightly in Kansas and to a 

 marked degree in Oklahoma and Texas, so that present 



