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valuable as a silage producer in eastern Kansas. Oklahoma, and 
Texas. The seed being white should be nearly equal to the seed of 
grain sorghums in feeding value, but it is at a marked disadvantage 
commercially, because a large percentage of the glumes remain on the 
seed after it is threshed. 
Gooseneck sorgo, often sold by seedsmen under the name of u Texas 
seeded ribbon cane," requires the longest season for maturity and pro- 
duces the highest forage yields of any of the commercial sorgo varie- 
ties. The fodder is extremely coarse and difficult to handle, however, 
and there are many seasons in which it does not mature seed, even as 
far south as Chillicothe, Tex. In some localities it is highly esteemed 
as a silage varietv. 
Fig. 
15.— Sumac sorgo at Chillicothe, Tex., in 1922., Seeded May 19. Photographed August 23. 
Xote the uniformitv which has been attained with this variety by continued selection. 
GRAIN-SORGHUM VARIETIES. 
Many farmers prefer a variety of sorghum producing both grain 
and fodder of good quality, in which the kafirs are supreme. The 
earlier varieties of kafir can be grown successfully from Hays, Kans., 
southward. Xorth of Hays grain-producing sorghums are of little 
importance. 
The quality of kafir forage is better than that of milo or feterita, 
and for this reason many farmers persist in growing kafir even 
though they obtain larger grain yields from milo and feterita. It is 
often asserted that well-cured kafir fodder is as palatable to livestock 
as the fodder made from sorgos and equal in feeding value. 
Pink kafir. a variety very largely developed at the Hays experi- 
ment station, is perhaps the best for that locality for both forage 
and grain (fig. 7), although dwarf strains of Blackhull are strong 
competitors of the Pink. This kafir will mature in approximately 
