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Kafir and other sorghum seeds are considered to be 

 very starchy foods. For good results they require that 

 some protein food, as alfalfa hay or cottonseed meal, be 

 fed with them. Ten per cent cottonseed meal is sufficient. 

 Kafir grain fed alone is also constipating, and this tend- 

 ency is corrected by the addition of a protein food fed 

 in connection. 



When fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, good results are 

 secured, though pound-for-pound feeding experiments 

 show sorghum to be not quite so valuable as corn. In 

 general, for fat stock, 80 to 90 pounds of corn have been 

 found to equal 100 pounds of kafir or milo when fed in 

 comparison. 



261. Poultry food. — Sorghum seed is one of the best 

 poultry foods and enters into a large proportion of these 

 foods found on the market. It is considered superior to 

 corn. For poultry the seed need not be ground but is fed 

 whole, either threshed or in the head. 



262. Soiling or green feed. — Sorghum is probably the 

 most popular crop to cut and feed green. The sweet 

 sorghums are used principally for this purpose. The 

 superiority of sorghum for this use lies in its large yield, 

 its sprouting up from the roots so that the crop may be 

 cut several times in succession, and its drought resistance. 

 Sorghum will remain green and growing under drier 

 conditions than will other forage crops, furnishing succu- 

 lent food at the time it is most needed. 



For green feeding it is usually drilled very thick, in 

 rows 3 feet apart. 



An acre of green sorghum producing 12 tons will feed 

 twenty head of stock for twenty days, allowing 60 pounds 

 per head each day. 



263. Pasture. — Sorghum is used considerably as a 



