28 BULLETIN 1D00, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 
GRAIN SORGHTMS. 
The records available on the cost of producing kafir and milo (1917) 
covered acreage as follows : Texas. 2.40S: Oklahoma. 1.276: Kansas, 
642; total. 4.726 acres. See Table 17). 1 
Kafir and milo are not handled in the same manner in all districts. 
About 50 per cent of the Texas growers plowed, and 50 per cent 
plank-listed before planting. Thirty-five per cent used the disk 
and 65 per cent used the spike-tooth harrow. In Oklahoma about 
13 per cent plowed. 43 per cent listed, and approximately the same 
percentage disked. Occasionally it was necessary to harrow. Fifty 
per cent of the Kansas operators disked. 25 per cent fisted, and 25 
per cent plowed. 
Three types of planters were used in putting in the kafir. namely. 
the lister planter, the corn planter with furrow openers attached, 
and what is known as the "knife planter." The latter type is used 
invariably on sod land. 
There are two general methods of harvesting: (1) The heads are 
harvested from standing stalks and hauled to bins or stacked in the 
barnyard: 2) the corn is cut with a corn binder, shocked, and 
headed from the shock with a knife attached to the end gate or side 
of the wagon. The heads are then hauled to bins and fed. or they 
may be stacked and thrashed out later from the stack. 
In general. 1917 yields were below the average. In some sections 
the crop made no grain and it had to be utilized as fodder or it was 
pastured or put into the silo. The latter method was unusual, 
although the number of silos in this territory has apparently increased 
within recent years. 
Table 17. — Kan* and milo: Lr: : ' ements per acre (96 records, 1917). 
M 
anlabc 
r . 
Horse labor. 
Per 
ber 
of 
rec- 
ords. 
cent of 
Region. 
Yield 
per 
acre. 
Prior 
to 
har- 
vest 
Har- 
vest. 
Total. 
Prior 
to 
har- 
vest. 
Har- 
vest. 
TotaL 
Seed. 
Ma- 
nure. 
T— Lr-e 
opei-a- 
:in; -r.- 
z ens r 
covered 
' bv fore- 
V— 5 T 
: 
Hrs. 
Hrs. 
&a 
Hr, s. 
Hrs. 
Lbs. 
Tom. 
Lbs. 
Texas 
j| 
, v 
3 j 
16 4 
>. > 
3& 3 
3.8 
. 
67 
"■■_.. 
:-" 
22. r " 
& *. 
:: " 
* v 
_" 
12. 8 
38L4 
3.0 
2 
1.3 
i i 
Kansas 
19 
;:. : 
1L4 
12.9 
K.Z 
26. 4 
15.4 
41. B 
5.1 
5.3 
3.6 
<i 
E x : lading interest on land, 
iproni an unpublished report prepared by T. H. Summers, formerly employed by the Office of Parm 
Management and Farm Economics. IT. S. Department of Agriculture. 
