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The Feeding of Grain Sorghums to Hogs

Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station

Abstract

The total corn acreage in Kansas for 1920 has been calculated at 5,000,000 acres, the total grain sorghum acreage 1,500,000. While definite figures are not available our observations lead us to believe that the grain sorghums yield 50 per cent more grain per acre throughout the state than does corn.

Perhaps some of you wonder why Kansas raises sorghum when the state is considered, generally speaking, to be in the corn belt. The real corn producing area of the state is the northern and eastern tier of counties, leaving the rest of the state as a rather uncertain area from the standpoint of producing corn. This is due mainly to lack of sufficient moisture to produce corn satisfactorily, whereas the sorghums which are more hardy and less susceptible to this condition are a much surer crop than corn.

In times past farmers who have raised the sorghum crops have too often been content to haul their grain to the local elevator and accept any price offered them.