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BULLETIN 268, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table VII presents for milo and kafir the average results of growing 
these crops under various methods at Garden City, Dalhart, and 
Amarillo. The average yields of both grain and stover at these sta- 
tions by each of the methods under study and also the profit or loss 
resulting from raising the crop are shown. 
Table VII. — Average yields and digest of cost of production per acre of milo and kafir by 
different methods of tillage at three stations in thz Great Plains area. 1 
Fall plowed. 
Spring plowed, 
Listed, milo 
Points covered. 
Milo after milo, 
kafir after kafir. 
After small 
grain. 
milo after milo, 
kafir after kafir. 
after milo , 
kafir after kafir. 
Summer tilled. 
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Yields of milo: 
Garden City 
6 
6 
7 
6 
6 
7 
Bm. 
8.8 
22.1 
20.4 
6.6 
13.9 
11.3 
Lbs. 
2, 152 
3, 995 
2,920 
3,262 
5. 352 
4,422 
10 
10 
14 
10 
10 
14 
Bus. 
10.5 
Lbs. 
2.556 
6 
6 
6 
6 
Bus. 
6.2 
21.2 
21.1 
4.7 
9.7 
10.2 
Lbs. 
1,873 
4,065 
2,626 
2,910 
6 
6 
10 
6 
Bm. 
8.8 
24.8 
20.9 
4.5 
16.9 
9.3 
Us. 
2.036 
3,575 
2,313 
2,943 
5, 605 
3,207 
Bus. Lbs. 
Dalhart . . .' 
11.6 3.1SS 
6 
3 
36. e'o, 938 
23.1 
6.9 
4.7 
12.2 
3,286 
4,229 
4,230 
5,387 
17.l!3,463 
Yields of kafir: 
Garden Citv 
Dalhart 
5, 287 6 
3,824 
6 
3 
31.19,992 
2.3 4,427 
Cost of either crop 
Profit or loss (— ) on 
milo: 
Garden Citv 
Dalhart 
§7.44 
.38 
9.39 
6.56 
1.72 
8.82 
5.92 
37.44 
2.07 
3.56 
8.37 
3.78 
2.90 
8.21 
37.06 
-.83 
9.55 
6.63 
.64 
7.39 
§5.93 
1.59 
11.14 
7.06 
1.76 
12.04 
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1.4fi 
Profit or loss (— ) on 
kafir: 
Garden Citv 
Dalhart 
20.11 
4.67 4.20 
—2.54 
1 Number of years averaged: At Garden City and Dalhart, 6; at Amarillo, 7. 
Both milo and kafir have given higher average yields than corn at 
each of these stations. They have also been safer crops, having made 
crops of grain in some years when corn did not. They have also been 
more responsive to cultural operations, thus proving their better 
adaptation to conditions. On the sandy lands of this area corn 
makes a better showing in comparison with these crops than it does 
on the heavy, tight lands. On these latter soils corn has little place 
in this section. Where a comparison is made between milo and kafir 
it is seen that milo has produced more grain than kafir and that kafir 
has produced more roughage than milo. Kafir, however, has shown 
a somewhat greater response to methods that increase the yields, such 
as summer tillage. When equal values are assigned to the grain 
and to the roughage from each of the crops, the total return is gen- 
erally about the same from each. At Garden City the grain crop 
alone has not been sufficient to pay for the cost of production. At 
Dalhart both crops have produced sufficient grain by all methods to 
pay a profit. At Amarillo milo has returned a profit from the grain 
alone by some methods. The crop of kafir grain at this station has 
