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BULLETIN" 665, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Fig. 6. — Sorghum for hay is of considerable importance, 
five tons of cured hay per acre. 
This field yielded nearly 
Sorghum (see fig. 6) is the principal hay crop. Practically every 
farm produces a small acreage for home consumption. The average 
yield is nearly 5 tons of cured hay per acre ; the cost of production is 
$8 per ton. 
Stock beets are meeting a considerable demand for winter and 
spring stock feed (see fig. 7). These are particularly adapted to hog 
consumption. This feed averages 28 tons per acre at a cost of 
slightly less than $2 per ton. 
Oats (Texas red-rust proof) (see fig. 8) are raised for pasture 
only; the crop seldom matures grain in this climate. These are 
planted in the early fall and are pastured from six to eight weeks 
later. With proper irrigation oats are pastured during three or four 
intervals through the winter, sometimes lasting into the summer. 
Not infrequently they are cut and fed as a soiling crop. 
Among other feed crops that appear successful are Sudan grass 
and Ehodes grass, both of which may be utilized for either hay or 
pasture. 
Cowpeas have received little attention up to the present, but a 
number of truck farmers find them very profitable as a green-manure 
crop to be plowed under. In a few cases the crop has been utilized 
as hay, very satisfactory yields being made. 
Cotton has been produced in the region for many years both under 
irrigation and by dry-farming methods. Since the advent of the 
boll weevil the crop has not been generally successful, although occa- 
sional crops show very satisfactory yields. A yield of more than a 
bale per acre is common when the boll weevil does not attack the crop. 
Attempts have been made at production of many other truck, 
staple, and special crops with indifferent success. A sufficient num- 
