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Title: Sorghums : sure money crops
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Borman, Thomas Allen, 1872-
Subjects: Sorghum
Publisher: Topeka : The Kansas Farmer Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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uld be regarded as worth thecost. But, while manifesting failure along certain lines,experience has taught success along other lines—the suc-cess of the settler who has been able to forestall adversityand whose precedent is worthy of imitation. Sorghum Crops Establish Farmers. I have askedseveral thousand sorghum belt farmers which crops, intheir experience, have proven the most certain of pro-duction. In every instance they have named some mem-ber of the sorghum family—kafir, milo, or some of thesweet sorghums. When asked if they could make a livingand some besides as a result of sorghum crops and livestock to consume those crops, they have answered affirm-atively. This is the answer borne out of their own experi-ence, or the experience of some neighbor. In patchesplanted here and there—sometimes well farmed but morefrequently neglected—the sorghums have in every sor-ghum belt locality produced grain and forage year afteryear. Under difficulties they have proven their suprem-
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DEVELOPMENT OF SORGHUM BELT 21 acy. With useful animals to consume them, they haveestablished the occasional settler in a permanent andreasonably prosperous homestead. Through their utility,which has been proven by the settler, the sorghums prom-ise the hope for success in the sorghum belt. Hold Fast to Sorghum-Eating Animals. I am con-vinced that farmers in the sorghum belt recognize thecombination of sorghums and live stock as essential totheir success. But, how to make the change—how to getthe start in live stock—is the outstanding and importantquestion. The reader who is familiar with the conditionof the settler cannot help realizing the importance andseriousness of this condition. I see no means by whichhe can be helped other than through his own efforts. Thefirst step in that direction is to forever swear allegianceto sorghum crops and to hold fast to every sorghum-consuming animal until the herd is established. Thegrains of sorghums will sell for cash, and with the rough-ag

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