20 BULLETIN 242, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
When a value, believed to be a conservative one, is assigned to the 
fodder, both crops show a profit from nearly ail methods under trial 
at all the stations. The only two exceptions are milo following milo 
by spring plowing at Garden City and kafir following summer tillage 
at Amarillo, where the summer tillage method has been on trial for 
only three years, all of which have been relatively unfavorable. 
The most important results of the investigations, of which this is 
a partial report, are the demonstrations that this region is not 
adapted to the successful growth of small-grain crops, but that it is 
-w ell adapted to forage crops and to certain types of grain sorghums 
when proper methods of tillage and crop sequence are practiced. 
This means that this region is undoubtedly destined again to be- 
come an important stock-producing section. It yet remains to be 
determined what classes of live-stock enterprises offer the greatest 
opportunities to the small farmers who have taken the place of the 
stockmen who formerly conducted an extensive and profitable busi- 
ness on the open ranges. It is certain that live stock of some kind 
must be grown to consume the forage and grain crops which can 
and will be grown in this region in enormously increasing quanti- 
ties as its agricultural possibilities become better understood. 
Although these investigations have so far demonstrated that but 
few crops have proved successful when grown by certain methods, it 
must not be understood that the limit has been reached either in 
crops or methods. On the contrary, these experiments tend to show 
that other crops and other methods may be developed which will 
produce even better results. 
These investigations are being developed and modified to meet the 
requirements and the agricultural resources of the southern Great 
Plains area. The problem of utilizing the forage and grain crops 
for the production of live-stock products is now of vital importance, 
and with its solution the agricultural resources of this region will be 
materially increased. 
WASHINGTON : GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE ; 1915 
