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and August was abnormally wet. Had the distribution been such 
that the crop could have made better use of the moisture much higher 
yields would have resulted. 
The season of 1918 was very poor for crops, resulting in low yields. 
Each month from April to September was below normal in rainfall. 
The moisture received was reasonably well distributed, but in many 
small showers which made no impression on a dry soil. 
In 1919 the seasonal rauifall was about normal in each month ex- 
cept July, which was 1^ inches less than the normal. At seeding 
time the temperatures were rather low, and much of the seed rotted in 
the ground or failed to germinate from other causes, which resulted 
in thin stands in many plats. Otherwise the season was favorable to 
Fig. 5.— Early-sown and late-sown plats of Dwarf milo in the date-of-seeding experiment at the 
Amarillo Cereal Field Station, Amarillo, Tex., on July 2, 1913. 
crop growth, and fair to good yields were obtained, considering the 
thin stands in many plats. 
DATE-OF-SEEDING EXPERIMENTS. 
The plan followed in the date-of-seeding experiments was to sow on 
three dates each year. The first or early seeding was made as early 
as conditions were at all favorable, which usually is about May 10. 
The normal time for seeding grain sorghums at the Amarillo Cereal 
Field Station is about May 25, and the latest these crops can be sown 
in that locality with any assurance that they will ripen before cool 
weather or frost is about June 10. The early seeding was made on 
May 10 in 1915, 1916, and 1919, and on May 11 in 1914 and 1918, but 
in 1917 seeding was delayed by rains until May 16. The normal seed- 
ing was made on May 25 in 1914 and 1917, on May 26 in 1915, on 
May 27 in 1916, and on May 29 in 1919, but was delayed by rains until 
