CHAPTER XIX 
FORAGE CROPS 
Sorghums.—In following out a crop rotation, grain 
and sweet sorghums are often more profitable than 
grasses or corn. They provide both roughage and grain 
for the farm animals. Most of those varieties grown 
in the Southwest are known as sweet sorghums. Regard¬ 
less of dry or wet weather, the sorghums produce a 
larger number of tons of feed per acre than any other 
crop. If sorghum is grown for hay, it should be planted 
early, so that it may be cut in August. Seed broad¬ 
casted at the rate of two and one-half bushels per acre, 
will produce the best hay. By growing smaller stalks, 
they will be less difficult to cure for hay. The addition 
of a bushel of cowpeas or soy beans to the seeding of 
each acre will greatly improve the quality of the feed. 
If the sorghum plants are to be used for silage or for 
grain, it should be planted in rows and cultivated. 
Sweet sorghum is often cut green and fed to hogs or 
cows, in addition to the grain feed. 
Kafir, milo, and feterita are the grain sorghums best 
suited to localities where the rainfall is less than thirty 
inches each year. Milo is perhaps the best grain pro¬ 
ducing crop. There are three popular kinds of kafir, 
the Red, White and Blackhull. Feterita is a very early 
crop and drought resistant. This makes it an important 
crop for early feed. From six to eight pounds of seed 
are needed to plant one acre. 
In raising sorghum for grain, the seed should not be 
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