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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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rm choring carefully—feeding hogs,calves, milking a few cows, looking after the poultry,etc. Such choring in well balanced farm operations willpay in cash return as well as the same time spent inthe field—except, possibly, in harvest time. Feed Supply in Reserve Essential. There is in thesorghum belt, as in every other area, years of short crops—not always because of dry weather, but sometimes be-cause of late or early frosts, hail storms, etc. The sor-ghum belt farmer can and should in the year of plentyprovide for the short year. It is certain that his forageand his hays can be carried over from year to year andtheir feeding value fully maintained. He can do thisjust as surely as he can successfully carry over wheatin the bin. So to do, however, requires a disposition toprovide against the time of need. Such disposition isan in-born quality of human-kind but to a greater orlesser extent has run out. The speculative businessof growing wheat, cotton or corn, in which the sorghum
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o -(J ZJ a^ DEVELOPMENT OF SORGHUM BELT 31 belt farmer, has heretofore engaged, is responsible forhis disposition to let the next year take care of itself.He has known that if it rains he will get a crop and hasfelt that in case it failed to rain he would not get a crop.Speculation has to a great extent made the sorghum beltfarmer a fatalist—that is, he believes that what is tobe, will be, regardless of anything he may do to controlconditions. When the sorghum belt farmer has a sur-plusage of anything, he should save it—particularly ifit be grain or forage. A trip through western Kansasduring the fall of 1913 showed the extremes to whichan occasional farmer had gone in caring for the surplusroughage of 1912. Such men had cows or other cattleto feed. They had hauled the roughage to the barn lotand there stacked it as carefully as they would stackbundled wheat. The ricks were covered with sloughgrass, straw, boards, metal stack covers, etc. Suchfarmers had a feed supply insured for

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