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TEXAS ALMANAC.-1945-1946.
Introduced into America beginning about 1875, grain sorghums have developed into a large
commercial crop in the West, especially in Texas, which produces more than 50 per cent of the nation's
crop. The grain sorghums have feed values similar to those of corn. A large number of varieties have
been developed. Scene above is on the High Plains.Harris, Fort Bend, Liberty,
Brazoria, Waller, Jackson
and Jefferson. Most of the
milling is done in near-by
centers and the product
finds ready domestic and
export outlet.
All of the state's crop is
grown under irrigation. Wa-
ter comes from artesian
wells and from channels of
the Colorado, Brazos, San
Jacinto, Trinity and Neches.
Twenty-four to thirty inches
of water a season are neces-
sary.
The war created a larger
demand. Average acreage
in the ten-year (1932-41) pe-
riod was 225,000, average
production 11.324,000 bushels.
But in 1944 acreage had
jumped to 392.000 and pro-
duction to 19.208.000. The
crop's average yield is about
50 bushels an acre, which, at
approximately $1.50 to $2 a
bushel, brings a large gross
return per acre. Nearly all
of the Texas crop is sold
commercially.
Figures below on rice are
from the U. S. Department
of Agriculture:
(Figures in Thousands.)
Harv'd Prod'n Farm
Year- Acres. (Bu.). Value.1905 ........214
1910 ....... 265
1915 ........260
1920 ........281
1921 ........ 166
1922 ........191
1923 ........145
1924 ........151
1925 ........156
1926 ........169
1927 ........165
1928 ....... 162
1929 ....... 144
1930 ....... 192
1931 ...... 205
1932 ...... 1866,649
8,738
7,930
9,554
5,993
5,959
5,800
6,040
6,209
6,844
7,953
8,116
7,027
10,291
10,598
9,114$6,649
5,942
7,058
11,942
6,053
5,363
6,670
7,550
9,251
7,528
6,840
7,142
7,238
8,130
6,465
3,646Harv'd Prod'n Farm
Year- Acres. (Bu.). Value.
1933 ........148 7,341 $5,946
1934 ........148 7,370 6,117
1935 ........170 8,840 5,834
1936 ........204 9,029 9,229
1937 ........250 13,000 9,230
1938 ........255 13,005 8,193
1939 ........269 15,172 11,834
1940 ........291 16,645 13,982
1941 ........305 11,590 16,921
1942 ........370 15,910 27,047
1943 ........388 16,684 32,200
1944 ........392 19,208 34,574
RYE
Like barley, rye is a minor
crop in Texas and has found
its principal use on rather
poor soils as a winter cover
and green manure crop. It
is grown principally in mid-
dle western and northern
Texas. Average acreage
from 1932-41 was 8,000 and
production 81,000 bushels.
here has been some pickup
in production lately, how-
ever, the 1944 acreage being
20,000 and final 1944 produc-
tion 300,000 bushels. Aver-
age yield is about 10 bush-
els an acre. Nearly half the
crop is fed to livestock and
the rest used for seed and
sold commercially.
Data below on rye are
from the U. S. Department
of Agriculture:
(Figures in Thousands.)
Harv'd Prod. Farm
Year- Acres. (Bu.). Val.
1890 ............ 5 40 $32
1900 ............ 4 54 36
1905 ............ 3 38 32
1910 ............ 1 13 13
1915 ............3 42 43
1920 ............11 143 214
1921 ............ 8 68 68
1922 ............ 6 42 52
1923 ............ 6 78 76
1924 ............ 5 55 61
1925 ........... 4 16 19Harv'd Prod. Farm
Year- Acres. (Bu.). Val,
1926 ............ 5 78 $76
1927 ............ 3 21 20
1928 ............ 3 34 35
1929 ............ 3 42 39
1930 ............ 2 20 13
1931 ............ 3 40 11
1932 ............ 3 32 8
1933 ............ 2 12 8
1934 ............ 2 11 8
1935 ............ 3 34 21
1936 ............ 3 28 23
1937 ............ 3 42 34
1938 ............ 4 42 22
1939 ............7 60 28
1940...........18 153 72
1941 ...........17 221 133
1942 ...........20 240 146
1943 ...........25 175 168
1944 .. ............20 300 309
FORAGE CROPS
Reduction of cotton acre-
age since 1933 has given con-
siderable impetus to Texas
forage crops as support for
the expanding livestock in-
dustry and the small-scale
stock farm. Texas soils and
climate are ideally suited to
many forage crops, but they
are produced largely for
home consumption and not
for the commercial market,
Production of forage crops
has been stimulated in the
last decade by the trench
silo, pits in the ground in
which feed is stored. Ex-
periments in trench silos be-
gan in 1931. Eight years
later there were 29,000 in
the state and the number in
1944 was estimated at be-
tween 40,000 and 50,000.
Most important commer-
cial crop is alfalfa seed, pro-
duction of which in 1943 was
11.200 bushels. Of this to-
tal, 9,600 bushels were sold
at an average price of $18,
bringing $173.000. The re-
mainder was kept for seed
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