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make a reasonable crop. 
A test was made at the College farm to see whether they 
would yield enough more under irrigation to prove a profit¬ 
able crop. 
Several varieties were sown May 17th in drills thirty- 
six inches apart on seepage ground near a ditch where they 
had an abundance of water all the season. They were culti¬ 
vated and hand hoed. On August 18th, notes were taken of 
their stage of growth as follows: 
Yelloiv Milo Maize. Three feet high, leafy, stocky, 
most advanced stems, just heading at four feet. 
White Milo Maize. Much the same. Not quite so 
full of heads. 
Ever^ree^i Broom Corn Five to eight feet high; good 
stand and heavy yield; heads just beginning to show 
blossoms. 
Japan Broom Corn. Same as the Evergreen but more 
leafy and not so far advanced. 
African Millet. Two and a half to three feet high, very 
few heads, rather uneven, but pretty good stand. 
Jerusalem Corn. Three and a half feet high, a few 
heads, the most advanced turning down, not yet in blossom. 
Red Kaffir Corn. Fairly heavy growth, three to three 
and a half feet high, no heads showing even in the stalk. 
White Kaffir Corn. About like the last. 
The sorghums were harvested at various times from 
September 16th to 27th. They were put in the silo, heads 
and stalks. Each of them, even the broom corn, made ex¬ 
cellent ensilage. 
Yellow Milo Maize. This made the heaviest growth, 
ripened earliest, and- produced the most seed of all varieties, 
though none of the plats had what would be considered a 
good yield of grain. The whole plant weighed 19.3 tons per’ 
acre, containing 30 per cent, of dry matter or 5.8 tons of dry 
matter per acre. This 19.3 tons was divided into fifteen 
tons of stalks and 4.3 tons of heads. The heads contained 
thirty-four per cent, of dry matter or 1.46 tons of dry matter 
per acre, and yielded twenty-seven bushels of seed per acre. 
African Millet. This seems to be practically the same 
thing as the White Milo Maize. It produced at the rate of 
18.4 tons per acre, divided into 2.7 tons of heads and 15.7 
tons of stalks and leaves. 
Red Kaffir Corn. Only a few heads, just going out of 
blossom; stalks short, averaging scarcely three feet high, 
heads quite large but few. Whole crop, seventeen tons per 
acre. , ^ 
White Milo Maize. This gave a total crop at the rate 
