CORN, MILO, AND KAFIR IN THE GREAT PLAINS AREA. 
9 
tural Methods to Production." As this bulletin will have a some- 
what different circulation from that one, and as it seems desirable 
to show the results with corn in comparison with those of the Other 
two important feed crops, milo and kafir, they are here presented. 
CORN AT GARDEN GITY. 
With the exception of a very light grain yield in 1914, which was 
included in the stover weight, corn has not matured grain at Garden 
City ; therefore it can be considered only as a fodder crop. A study 
of Table IV shows little difference in the yields obtained by spring 
and fall plowing. A slight difference does exist between the yields 
obtained where corn follows corn and where corn is grown after 
small grains. The difference is in favor of the first-named crop se- 
quence, indicating that corn leaves the land in better condition for 
a succeeding crop than small grain does. Subsoiling has increased 
the yield over listing and fall and spring plowing, but the increased 
yield has been just sufficient to balance the extra expense incurred in 
using this method of seed-bed preparation. Listing gives the lowest 
average yield of fodder, but since this method is the least expensive 
it has been productive of the smallest loss. Corn following summer 
tillage has produced the highest yields, but as this is the most ex- 
pensive method under trial it has resulted in the greatest loss. As 
calculated in Table IV, corn at this station has not been produced at 
a profit by any method under trial. 
Table IV. — Summary of yields and digest of the cost of production of corn by 
different tillage methods and crop sequences at Garden City, Kans., 1909 to 
1914, inclusive. 
Fall plowed. 
Spring plowed. 
Yields, values, 
etc. (average 
per acre). 
After 
corn 
(1 plat). 
After 
small 
grain 
(11 plats). 
After 
corn 
(1 plat). 
After 
small 
grain 
(11 plats). 
Subsoiled 
after corn 
(lplat). 
Listed 
after corn 
(2 plats). 
Summer 
tilled 
(1 plat). 
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Yield for the 
year: 
1909 
Bus. 
Lbs. 
Bus. 

Lbs. 
2,972 
Bus. 
Lbs. 
Bus. 

Lbs. 
3,446 
Bus. 
Lbs. 
Bus. 

Lbs. 
2,180 
Bus. 
Lbs. 
1910 
1911.. 
1912 
1913 
19142 


i H. 

1,400 
4,620 
H. 
3,040 


H. 

934 
4,498 
H. 
2,668 


H, 

1,100 
5,580 
H. 
2,460 


H. 

1,269 
3,935 
H. 
2,100 


H. 

750 
4,500 
H. 
4,840 


H. 

695 
5,570 
H. 
2, 830 


H. 

4,000 
5,700 
H. 
4,320 
Average. 

3,020 

2,768 
915. 54 

3,047 
«fi no 

2,688 
«s as 

3,363 

2,819 

4,700 
Crop value, 
cost, etc.: 
Value 
$6.04 
ftfi 73 
«s (\d 
«Q 40 
Cost 
$7.49 
$7.49 
$7.11 
$7.11 
$8.18 
$5.98 
$12. 36 
Loss 
-1.45 
-1.95 
-1.02 
-1.73 
-1.45 
- .34 
-2.96 
1 H=Destroyed by hail. 
92230°— Bull. 242- 
2 Very small yield of grain; weight included with stover. 
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