BREEDING MILLET AND SORGO FOR DROUGHT ADAPTATION. 
At the Belle Fourche station, Newell, S. Dak., in drilled plats, 
Siberian millet, A. D. I. No. 4-3, produced larger yields than the 
strains of Kursk millet in 1912 and 1914, while in 1913 the yield was 
about the same. In cultivated rows, the highest yielding strain in 
1912 was Dakota Kursk No. 3. At the Ardmore (S. Dak.) Field 
Station in 1914 the Siberian strain, No. 4-3, yielded slightly higher 
than the Kursk strains. At the Mandan (N. Dak.) Field Station the 
yields of Dakota Kursk millet and Siberian No. 4-3, based on the 
average of triplicate plats, were exactly the same, 4,300 pounds per 
acre. (See Table III.) 
Table III. — Yields of millet hay in drilled plats at Newell, S. Dak., 1912 to 1914, inclu- 
sive, and at Ardmore, S. Dak., and Mandan, N. Dak., in 1914. 
Variety and number. 
Newell, S. Dak. 
Ardmore, 
S. Dak. 
Mandan, 
N. Dak. 
19121 
1913 2 
1914 2 
1914 2 
1914 3 
Dakota Kursk: 
A. D. I. No. 3 
Pounds. 
6,410 
Pounds. 
3,040 
3,250 
3,650 
2,950 
3,750 
Pounds. 
1,300 
Pounds. 
2,080 
Pounds. 
4,300 
A.D.I. No. 3-2 
Kursk: 
A. D.I. No. 5 
A. D. I. No.'lO 
6,320 
6,400 
6,350 
1,500 
2,000 
4,240 
A. D . I. No. 13-3 
6,370 
3,330 
1,400 
2,040 
4,270 
Siberian, A.D.I. No. 4-3 
6,850 
3,300 
2,000 
2,170 
4,300 
1 Yields based on single plats. 
2 Yields based on the average of duplicate plats. 
Yields based on the average of triplicate plats. 
SEED PRODUCTION OF MILLET. 
Millet of the foxtail type (Chaetocliloa italica) is grown chiefly for 
forage, and yet some varieties, especially the Kursk, produce very 
good crops of seed. When millet is grown for seed in the Great 
Plains it is generally safest, in order to insure a crop, to plant in 
cultivated rows. When planted in this way Kursk millet has seldom 
failed to produce a profitable crop. Table IV gives a summary of 
the yield of seed at Akron, Colo., and Newell, S. Dak. The lowest 
yield recorded at Akron was in 1910, when the average from all 
strains of Kursk millet was at the rate of 17.8 bushels per acre. In 
1912 the six Kursk strains yielded at the rate of nearly 36 bushels 
per acre. At Newell in 1912 five strains of Kursk millet yielded at 
the rate of 21.7 bushels per acre and the two strains of Siberian millet 
at the rate of 14.3 bushels per acre. 
There is a demand from commercial seed companies for pure millet 
seed, and it would seem that growing this crop for seed is likely to 
become a profitable industry in some sections of the Great Plains. 
It can, no doubt, be raised more economically on the cheaper lands 
of the Great Plains than on the more expensive lands of the prairie 
region farther east. There is certainly every reason why farmers in 
