KAFIR CORN IN KANSAS 103 
especially adaptable to semi-arid and hot regions. 
It may be well, therefore, to present a brief account 
of these plants to show their value for the interior 
western country. 
The results of experiments at the Kansas Ex- 
periment Station are probably applicable for those 
regions in which the crop is a prominent one, and 
a brief résumé and adaptation of the report of 
Professor J. G. Haney,! of that Station, comprises 
the remainder of this account of kafir corn. 
Varieties for dry regions 
There are many varieties of the non-saccharine 
sorghums, but only three that have come under 
the name of kafir corn. The name kafir comes 
from the name of a tribe of natives of South 
Africa, whose country is known by the same name 
of kafir. Kafir corn is sometimes known as Afri- 
can millet. The three varieties which have received 
most attention are, in the order they were intro- 
duced: (1) The White, (2) the Red, and (8) the 
Black-hulled White. The last may be easily dis- 
tinguished from the first by noticing that the chaff 
or hull which partly envelops the grain is black, 
while in the first the chaff or hull is nearly the 
color of the grain; hence, the first is called White 
and the last Black-hulled White. In the Red, the 
1Forage and Fodders, Kansas State Board of Agriculture, Report for 1900, 
