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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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responding sections of the two states are quite similar. The growing season of Oklahoma is longer than thatof Kansas, but the annual precipitation is about the same,as is also the distribution of rainfall throughout the grow-ing season. Thus, Oklahoma has the same need for early-maturmg and dry-weather-evading crops as has Kansas.Oklahoma has one advantage over Kansas, however, inthat sorghum crops which have failed to mature on theearly rainfall have opportunity to receive the benefitsof later rains and a better chance for maturity beforekilling frosts. However, following a dry midsummer inOklahoma, as in Kansas, fall rains do not generally pre-cede killing frosts sufficiently long to mature crops, sothat those strains of crops which mature on the earlyrainfall are to be sought. The map showing Oklahoma sorghum areas was re-drawn from a similar map printed by the Oklahoma FarmJournal. The editor, John Fields, has carefully studiedthe adaptability of the several sorghums to each area.
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SORGHUM AREAS DEFINED 148 His conclusions are based upon his investigation of theperformance of the several crops on the farms of therespective sections. He thus explains the map: Tor the dark shaded area, milo is the chief graincrop, with kafir as a supplemental crop for forage. Thesweet sorghums are satisfactory for forage in this area,except, possibly, in Cimarron County and the westernpart of Texas County. The next area east, or that light-dotted in the map,is the area in which kafir is the chief grain and foragecrop. Milo is recommended as a supplemental grain cropfor planting on wheat and oats stubble and where cottonfails to make a stand. In the unshaded area farmers should adhere closelyto kafir and corn and plant but little milo. Mr. Fieldsrecommends that in this area corn be planted on bottomlands only. Farm by Safe System. A farming system that isreally safe—dependable—will appeal to every farmer.Such system is that for which every farmer is workingand hoping. Some are

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