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becomes available. In this respect they differ greatly from Indian 
corn, which will not yield satisfactorily when once checked in its 
growth. This quality makes the grain sorghums especially valuable 
under the conditions in the semi-arid western and southwestern 
States. They bid fair to become of great agricultural importance 
in these sections of the country. The areas sown to grain sorghums 
in Kansas (Fig. 35), Oklahoma, and Texas have increased in a 
marked manner during the last ten years, and they are apparently 
replacing Indian corn to some extent in these States.1* 
The grain of the non-saccharine sorghums resembles corn in 
chemica] composition ; it contains a higher percentage of starch than 
corn, but less protein and fat, and may be considered not quite equal 
to corn in feeding value or palatability. The grain should be ' 
AREA OF GRAIN-SORGHUNM ANDO COPN IN KANSAS. 
‘ ¢ MILLIONS OF ACRES. ie - 
ane aes 
1 1805 
1906 
1907 
1908 
4909 — 
7910 i 
wou a aa satel 
1912 — 
1913 
A GRAIN SORGHUM om conv 
Fie. 35.—Diagram showing increase in area sown to grein sorghums in Kansas during the 
decade 1904-13. (Ball.) 
threshed and ground for feeding to fattening cattle, while it may 
be fed threshed or in the head. to working horses and sheep, and 
preferably “heads and all” to idle horses, colts, dairy cattle, and 
young stock. Ground grain is fed with skim milk to calves, and 
moistened with water or skim milk to hogs. As it is quite carbon- 
aceous (N.R., milo 1: 9.7%, Egyptian corn 1: 8.9), it makes a good 
supplemental feed for hogs fed skim milk or alfalfa, either hay or 
pasture. 
Rice.—As in the case of many other seeds, rice is too valuable 
as a human food to allow of its use for feeding ‘farm stock, and it is 
only used for this purpose to a limited extent in rice-growing sec- 
tions. The hull or husk of the rice kernel is rough and brittle, and 
“U.S. Department of Agriculture Yearbook, 1913, p. 221, 
