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BULLETIX 383, TJ. S. DEPAKTMEXT OE AGRICULTURE. 
Table I. — Comparative growth and yield of the new and of standard varieties 
of sorghum at two stations in Texas, etc. — Continued. 
Place, year, and variety. 
Serial 
Xo. 
Season. 
Row space. 
Plant. 
Stalk. 
Acre Yield. 
Height. 
Fodder. Grain. 
At Amaeillo, Tex.— Contd. 
Average, 1913 to 1915: 
Dwarf hegari 
Dwarf feterita 
Improved feterita. 
Dwarf milo 
Dwarf kafir 
Blackhullkafir... 
At Hats, Kans. 
1914 (medium to poor season): 1 
Dwarf hegari 
Standard feterita 
White milo 
Dwarf milo 
Dwarf kafir 
Blackhullkafir 
Schrock kafir 
1915 (verv wet and cold sea- 
son): 2 
Dwarf hegari 
Dwarf feterita 
Improved feterita 
White milo 
Dwarf milo 
Dwarf kafir 
Blackhulll- afir 
Schrock kafir 
Average, 1914 and 1915: 
Dwarf hegari 
Feterita * 
White milo 
Dwarf milo 
Dwarf kafir 
Blackhull kafir 
4201 
811 
22329 
18684 
24983 
17569 
4201 
19517 
5886 
18684 
249S3 
17569 
1481 
4201 
811 
22329 
5S86 
1S684 
24983 
17569 
1481 
4201 
5886 
1S»:54 
24983 
Days. 
93 
94 
102 
111 
123 
102 
93 
90 
102 
102 
102 
102 
107 
107 
107 
100 
112 
115 
115 
115 
105 
100 
95 
107 
109 
109 
Inches. 
9.16 
11.21 
11.63 
10.52 
9.68 
7.31 
8.6 
12.3 
Inches. 
3.89 
3.97 
4.03 
3.81 
5.16 
4.02 
4.6 
4.3 
9.3 
3.5 
11 
7.3 
6.3 
7.1 
2.9 
7.3 
Inches. 
38.5 
51.7 
55.3 
35.5 
44.5 
50.7 
5.4 
6.2 
8.2 
4.9 
Tons. 
2.64 ! 
2. 50 i 
2.94 
2.49 I 
2.62 | 
3.30 
3.14 
2.44 
2.51 
2.44 
3.16 
3. 55 
2.26 
3.54 
3.46 
3.51 
4.34 
4.89 
3.41 
4.15 
3.44 
3.34 
2.9S 
3.4S 
3.67 
3.29 
3.85 
Bushels. 
22.89 
31.58 
30.38 
24.42 
28.70 
20.41 
11.2 
25.7 
31.9 
14.2 
30.6 
9 
40.7 
23.8 
27 
42.1 
40.9 
24.7 
12.3 
8.5 
26 
26.4 
37 
27.6 
27.7 
10.7 
1 The yields given are from duplicate twentieth-acre plats. 
2 The vields given are from duplicate 3 200-acre plats. 
3 The results for feterita include those for S. P. I. Xo. 19517 in 1914 and for S. P. I. Xo. 22329 in 1915. 
The results shown in Table I represent fairly accurately, it is 
believed, the value of these varieties in the localities named. It is 
fortunate that the period covered by this work includes a wet year, 
a dry year, and one of average weather conditions. 
VALUE OF THE VARIETIES IN DIFFERENT PORTIONS OF THE 
GREAT PLAINS, 
REGION ADJACENT TO CHILLICOTHE, TEX. 
In 1914 a wet fall followed a rather dry but not especially unfa- 
vorable summer, and this abundance of moisture in the fall enabled 
the early-maturing varieties, like feterita and Dwarf hegari. to 
produce second crops of grain as well as fodder. This resulted in 
greatly augmented yields of the three varieties of feterita. of Dwarf 
hegari, and also of Dwarf milo. The yield from the first cutting, 
which was harvested in the ordinary way with a row binder, was 
as fellows: Dwarf hegari. 17: Dwarf feterita, 24.9 ; Improved feterita. 
