SORGHUM VARIETIES FOR THE GREAT PLAINS. 13 
varieties, although Dwarf hegari and feterita made small yields of 
forage, as did also the Dwarf kafir. Insects completely destroyed 
the plantings of Dwarf milo, this variety appearing especially sus- 
ceptible to the attacks of both chinch bugs and grasshoppers. 
In 1914, which was an average season but with several periods of 
rather acute drought, feterita, White milo, and Dwarf kafir made 
especially good yields of grain and fair yields of fodder. The high 
grain yields of feterita and Dwarf kafir may have been partly due 
to the thin stands of these two strains, but this can not be offered 
as a reason for the good showing of the White milo. Dwarf hegari 
produced a good yield of fodder, but the seed yield was rather low. 
In the season of 1915, which was very cold and wet during the 
spring and early summer, all the sorghums started poorly and had 
to be replanted. The cold weather ivas disastrous to feterita and 
retarded the growth of the kafirs to such an extent that they failed 
to mature fully before frost, Blackhull kafir and Schrock kafir 
being in the milk stage and Dwarf kafir in the soft-dough stage when 
frost came. Dwarf hegari, White milo, and Dwarf milo made almost 
equally good yields of grain, but the milos both outyieldecl Dwarf 
hegari in fodder. The quality of Dwarf hegari fodder, however, is 
considerably better than that of the milo, so that the advantage of 
the milos in this feature is more apparent than real. In the averages 
for the two years, White milo appears to be much the best from a 
grain standpoint, while Dwarf hegari, feterita, Dwarf milo, and 
Dwarf kafir, averaging about 10 bushels less in grain yield than 
the White milo, are approximately equal to it and to each other in 
forage yield. From these results one must conclude that the best 
general-purpose sorghum for this region is Dwarf kafir, since the 
fodder is much superior to that of the milos or feterita (fig. T). 
For a purely grain sorghum, White milo deserves a more extensive 
trial, especially in the northwestern part of Kansas, southwestern 
Nebraska, and eastern Colorado. Ordinary Blackhull kafir and 
Schrock kafir, although more leafy and perhaps producing a better 
quality of fodder than Dwarf kafir, are not early enough in maturing 
to warrant their growth in western Kansas. 
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS. 
Schrock kafir has been introduced in the tabulation (Table I) 
merely because of the interest which has been aroused in it and to 
provide data to answer questions regarding its comparative value. 
It will be seen that its long growing season prevents it from being a 
success at Hays, Kans. Farther south, however, at both Chillicothe 
and Amarillo, Tex., it made good yields, and in 1915 it was the 
highest yielding sorghum at Woodward, Okla. Even with such results 
