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and tested by the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment 

 Station about twenty years ago. It is occasionally 

 grown from Kansas to Texas. It has acquired several 

 local names, as California wheat, Egyptian wheat, and 

 Mexican wheat. 



241. Kowliang. — In both India and China the sorghums 

 are commonly classed with millets. " Kowliang," or 

 " tall millet," is a Chinese name given to distinguish this 

 variety from the common smaller millets (Panicum and 

 Chaetochloa) . The three colors of seed and glume found 

 in kafirs and durras are found also in this group, namely, 

 brown seeds with black glumes, white seeds with black 

 glumes, and white seeds with white glumes. There are 

 varieties of both dwarf and standard size, 4 to 11 feet high. 



Kowliang comes from northeast China and the adjacent 

 territory of jVIanchuria, 38° to 42° north latitude — the 

 farthest north of any region where sorghums have been 

 an important crop for any great length of time. They 

 are extensively cultivated in this region for grain and 

 forage and the stems are used for fuel. 



All varieties are early-maturing, and, being already 

 adapted to a region farther north than any other group 

 of sorghums except the Earljr Amber varieties (the original 

 AmlDer type also came from China) , they should be adapted 

 to a similar latitude in the United States. They have not 

 been extensively tried in this country, but the early dwarf 

 stocks give promise of furnishing a good foundation stock 

 for the development of grain sorghums in the northern 

 half of the Great Plains. They could not replace Early 

 Amber sorghums as a forage crop. 



