Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — KAFFIR CORN IN SOUTH DAKOTA [ARTICLE]

KAFFIR CORN IN SOUTH DAKOTA

Interesting Results of Experiments Made by Farmers Last Year. A detailed description of the new famous jLvaffir corn in an article from Guthrie, Ok., and first printed a few weeks ago in die columns of the Globe-Demo-crat, has been widely copied by tho.aewspnpers of the Northwest nirddras aroused - much discusstbn among the farthers of South Dakota as to the adax»tability of Kaffir corn to that climate. Last year and prior a few farmers in the ’State procured small quantities of this seed and experimented with it, and the results of these experiments are interesting. T. B. Strong, a farmer and ranchman on White Hirer, in the ceded Sioux lands, had a field of ®orn which yielded fully up to expectations. He declares that it is tho very best kind of feed for any kind of stock. P. J. Gertn, a Chamberlain business man, experimented last season with a small field of ordinary Indian corn and Kaffir corn. The ordinary corn was irrigutod several times, while the Kaffir com received only the natural .rainfall, which was much below normal. Still, the Kaffir corn grew? as fast as the other, was green and hCaltby looking during the very driest periods of the summer, proving, in this instance, at least, that it can Withstand drought to the degree claimed for it. In referring to a newspaper statement warning farmers to go slow in going into the culture of Kaffir corn, P. D. Hycr, a prominent farmer of Hanson County, says that three years ago he risked d dime for seed. This year he has ten bushels of seed and next spring will put in all he can cultivate. He declares that he finds noth-