CEREALS AT THE AKRON FIELD STATION 51 
BUCKWHEAT 
Buckwheat was sown each year for about 10 years. In 1908, 1909, 
1912, and 1917 fair yields were obtained, and in 1910 and 1913 lhght 
crops were harvested, but in all of the other years in which buck- 
wheat was sown it proved a failure. The highest yielding variety 
was Mountain (C. I. No. 31), which produced a yield of 1,712 pounds 
to the acre in 1912. Buckwheat has little promise for this district, 
because of the danger of injury from drought. 
Fic. 22.—Heads of selections of Dawn kafir (A and B) and Freed sorghum (C) grown at the Akron Field 
Station 
GRAIN SORGHUM 
Grain sorghums have been grown in field plats for 12 years. On 
account of the short growing season and cool nights, most varieties 
of grain sorghums fail. Manchu Brown kaoliang (C. I. No. 328), is 
the only variety which has consistently escaped frost. The highest 
yield from this variety was 24.1 bushels in 1916; the lowest, 3.4 
bushels, was produced in 1919 when the stand was reduced by a late 
spring frost. The twelve-year average yield has been 13.4 bushels. 
