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1, 60 days: and the June 16 seeding only 47 days. The only incon- 
sistency in the curve is in the fifth date. June 1. The sorghums seeded 
on this date all show a more or less decided change in°the direction 
ol their individual growth curve about July 12. or 43 days after the 
seeding date, caused, no doubt, by the practical exhaustion of the 
0>» from Panting 
Fl , G " ^-—Diagrams showing the effect of different dates of seeding on the growth rate of sorghums at ChH- 
licothe, Tex in 1916. The curves represent seeding dates as follows: I, April 10: 2, Vpril 19; 3 M 
4, May lo; o, June 1; and 6, June 16. 
soil moisture at that time. There had been no effective rams after 
the rather adequate precipitation in April, except one of 0.72 inch 
on May 1/ and another of the same amount on June 23 and 24. 
This drought continued until the last week in August, when rain 
aggregating 0.9 inch fell. 
