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SCHROCK KAFFIR-SORGHUM— Brought by the Sea Gulls 
One spring about seven years ago multitudes of sea 
gulls circled for several days over parts of Oklahoma. 
Among these gulls were white ones, grey ones, and 
some orange gulls of the South Seas. Where these birds 
cam© from and what they were doing so far from 
their ocean home will always remain a mystery. 
Later in the summer a rural mail carrier noticed 
i» a field along his route a single plant of a type en- 
tirely unknown in that part of the state. The earliness, 
extreme vigor and the large size of the three heads of 
grain on this one plant made him sit up and take notice. 
He staked this plant off and watched it develop. 
He saved the seed and in co-operation with the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture and the Experiment Stations of Oklahoma Texas and Kansas, has developed 
this new variety into the surest grain crop of all the so-called drought-resisting grains. 
The sea gulls and this new plant appeared in Oklahoma during the same spring, but whether the gulls 
brought the seed of this new plant or whether they did not is a matter of theory and of little consequence. 
The important fact is that in Schrock-Kafflr-Sorghum we have a variety that has made heavy yields 
of grain year after year when other Kaffirs and other Sorghums were ruined by dry weather. 
The name "Kaffir-Sorghum" was suggested by Agronomist Vinal of the U. S Department of Agri- 
culture. Kaffir, because of its kaffir-like heads; and Sorghum, because of its soft, juicy, sweet stall?. 
Schrock Kaffir-Sorghum grows very uniformly to a height of from 3H to 6 feet, and as you will note 
from the picture, stools and branches out abundantly, and each stalk bears a head of seed. - /as 
ten heads of grain on a stalk is no exception. 
The stalks are slender and very sweet. Cattle and horses will eat it down to the roots, and som 
report that stock prefer it to the sweetest hay and will even leave alfalfa for it. 
It makes excellent ensilage and when sown broadcast at the rate of about 50 pounds to tne 
makes fine leafy hay which can be handled with a wheat binder or cut with a mower. 
The £reat advantages of Schrock Kaffir-Sorghum are: 
Its earliness to mature grain. 
Immense yields of both grain and fodder. 
Its ability to withstand the dreaded midge of 
South Texas. 
Great drought-resisting qualities. 
Blackbirds bother it but little. 
Can be planted three to four weeks earlier than 
Kaffir. 
Owing to the tightness of the hull blackbirds do 
not like it and will fly over a field of Schrock Kaffir- 
Sorghum to reach Kaffir, Milo or Feterita. You, 
who have had your fields stripped by the birds, 
will appreciate this. , 
It matures ahead of Feterita and way ahead of 
Kaffir and Milo, and is without doubt the surest 
cropper we have ever grown. 
Just read what one grower in Oklahoma writes 
of his 1917 crop which made from 60 to 80 bushels 
to the acre: , , 
"My crop this year was cut to the ground by 
hail when less than eight inches high; sprouted 
from the roots, survived sixty days of practically 
rainless weather, ending with fourteen days and 
nights of the hottest, scorching, furnace-like winds 
that ever blew over this short grass country. 
Corn shrivelled up and died; cane sown for feed 
dried up when a foot high; the grass itself was 
dry enough to burn; yet Kaffir-Sorghum stood green 
and cool looking and came through with such a 
crop as I am proud to show anyone." 
By all means plant at least a few acres of this 
sure cropper. We have just bo much seed and 
when this is gone we will be unable to get any more 
until next season, so send in your order early or 
you might be disappointed. 
PLANTING 
The seed should be sown in rows about three 
feet apart, using from three to five pounds to the 
acre. For best results it should be planted early, 
three to four weeks earlier than Kaffir. It is 
unlike other sorghums in that cold soil does not 
effect germination. 
Plant the seed about two inches deep and culti- 
vate often but very shallow. Deep cultivation 
will cut many of the roots. When sown broadcast 
for fodder use about 50 pounds to the acre. 
HARVESTING 
For Silage and Dry Fodder — Cut 
binder just before frost. 
For Grain only — Head with light corn knife or 
beet topper, after frost. Stack heads like hay, rick 
6 to 8 feet wide. If stacked right they never take 
water. Turn cattle into stalk fields; they gnaw 
stalks into the ground. 
For Hay — Cut with mower or wheat binder 
when heads are in the dough state, or beginning to harden. 
USES: Dry grain has same feeding value as White Kaffir, and like White Kaffir, for best results, should 
be either ground or fed in the head. Finest for poultry feed. Makes best ensilage in the world because 
of soft, sweet stalk and immense amount of leaves and grain. Hay has same value as Sudan Grass. Horses, 
cattle and sheep eat every particle. 
Priees: Postpaid, per lb. 25c. Not postpaid, 5 lbs. for 65c; 10 lbs; $1.00. 
For prices in larger qua ties please see our«Pink List 
with corn 
THREE PLANTS OF SCHROCK KAFFIR- 
SORGHUM. 
