SORGHUM VARIETIES EOR THE GREAT PLAIXS. 
Table I. — Comparative growth and yield of the new and of standard varieties 
of sorghum at two stations in Texas and one station in Kansas in 1913, 1914, 
and 1915. 
Place, year, and variety. 
Serial 
No. 
Season. 
Row space. 
Height. 
Acre yield. 
Plant. 
Stalk. 
Fodder.* 
Grain. 
At Chillicothe, Tex. 
1913 (very dry season): 
4201 
811 
22329 
19517 
5886 
18684 
24983 
17569 
4201 
811 
22329 
19517 
5886 
18684 
24983 
17569 
4201 
811 
22329 
5886 
18684 
24983 
17569 
1481 
4201 
811 
22329 
19517 
5886 
18684 
24983 
17569 
4201 
811 
22329 
19517 
18684 
24983 
17569 
4201 
811 
22329 
19517 
5886 
18684 
24983 
17569 
4201 
811 
22329 
18684 
24983 
17569 
1481 
Days. 
Inches. 
18 
27 
19 
21 
16 
20 
Inches. 
Inches. 
43 
48 
50 
55 
44 
33 
43 
33 
48 
54 
57 
68 
60 
42 
42 
48 
58 
54 
57 
58 
50 
51 
63 
58 
49 
52 
55 
61 
54 
42 
45 
48 
20 
34 
46 
36 
24 
28 
34 
43 
55 
55 
54 
52 
36 
45 
46 
52.5 
66 
65 
46.5 
60.5 
72 
66 
Tons. 
1.04 
.97 
.80 
1.04 
1.10 
1.12 
1.05 
.95 
6.10 
4.95 
6.05 
5.85 
3.06 
4.83 
2.60 
3.85 
4.54 
2.52 
2.47 
2.37 
3.60 
3.20 
4.27 
3.87 
3.89 
2.81 
3.11 
3.44 
2.18 
3.18 
2.28 
3.02 
.50 
1.10 
1.20 
1.28 
1.03 
.45 
1.33 
3.18 
2.87 
2.09 
2.16 
1.93 
2.08 
2.42 
2.90 
3.25 
3.52 
4.53 
4.37 
5.00 
5.66 
7.30 
Bushels. 
( 2 ) 
10.71 
Ill 
8.03 
110 
109 
113 
10.71 
17.5 
11.9 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
56.6 
Blackhull kafir 
14 
10 
7.8 
7.7 
8 
6.9 
7.1 
7.3 
6.9 
9.1 
9.1 
8.3 
9.4 
7.9 
8 
1914 (medium season): 
89 
92 
96 
101 
91 
96 
102 
104 
104 
83 
84 
85 
101 
101 
114 
99 
97 
88 
90 
106 
88 
99 
104 
109 
90 
81 
81 
84 
97 
110 
120 
90 
90 
92 
92 
94 
94 
100 
117 
108 
108 
108 
115 
123 
133 
131 
53.5 
51.5 
40.8 
21.3 
Dwarf milo 3 
41.1 
Dwarf kafir... . 
13.1 
Blackhull kafir 
12.5 
1915 (very wet season): 
7.3 
6.9 
6.5 
6.7 
5.8 
6.6 
38.4 
28 
27.3 
White milo 
32.5 
36.8 
28.6 
Blackhull kafir 
39.82 
Schrock kafir 
7.4 
12.3 
14.6 
11.6 
14.5 
10.8 
11.6 
7.6 
10.4 
3 
11 
12 
10 
6 
13.3 
4.5 
5 
7.8 
8.4 
11.8 
6.2 
6.2 
7.2 
2.6 
19.47 
14.82 
14.48 
19.36 
8.53 
14.84 
6.25 
5.8 
46 
Average, 1913 to 1915: * 
Dwarf hegari 
31.7 
30.7 
Improved feterita..,, 
28.9 
Standard feterita 5 
25.7 
23.8 
29.9 
Dwarf kafir 
13.9 
Blackhull kafir 
17.4 
At Amarillo, Tex. 
1913 (extremely dry season): s 
Dwarf hegari 
2.5 
5 
4.8 
4.7 
3.9 
7.4 
2.6 
2 
2.6 
3.1 
4.3 
2.4 
2.3 
3.5 
2.3 
7.18 
4.33 
4.18 
5.24 
4.59 
7.17 
4.28 

Dwarf feterita 
14.70 
Improved feterita 
24.10 
Standard feterita 
13.10 
2 07 
Dwarf kafir 

Blackhull kafir 

1914 (medium season): i 
Dwarf hegari 
25 
28 5 
Improved feterita 
14.1 
13 8 
White milo 
20.4 
Dwarf milo 
18 6 
Dwarf kafir 
20.1 
Blackhull kafir 
2 4 
1915 (very wet season): 8 
Dwarf hegari 
43.66 
Dwarf feterita 
51 55 
Improved feterita 
52 93 
Dwarf milo 
52 60 
Dwarf kafir 
65 99 
Blackhull kafir 
58 83 
Schrock kafir 
55.83 
i The term fodder includes the entire plant before the seed head is removed. The yields were all obtained 
from duplicate twentieth-acre plats except that of Improved feterita in 1913, which was from one row 8 
rods long. 
2 Few heads. 
s Yields of these varieties are the total from two cuttings. 
4 The average for the growing season is based on results obtained in 1914 and 1915 except in the case of 
feterita No. 19517. 
& The results of two years, 1913 and 1914. 
s The yields for 1913 were all obtained from 0.03-acre plats except that of Improved feterita, which was 
grown in only one 8-rod row. 
? The yields for 1914 were all obtained from duplicate fiftieth-acre plats. 
8 The yields for 1915 were all obtained from duplicate twentieth-acre plats. 
