Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Substation No. 12, Home of Hybrid Sorghums
Forage crop field station at which in 1909 (when situated 6 miles NE) was planted the United States' first sudan grass, a sorghum especially adaptable to semiarid regions. The United States Department of Agriculture had brought the seed from Khartum, Africa. Here ensued more than a half-century of sorghum breeding under supervision of A. B. Conner, J. R. Quinby, J. C. Stephens and other scientists, culminating in hybrid seed for more productive crops that revolutionized the agriculture of the Great Plains. (1971)
34.1944° N, 99.5172° W
Where to Find It
From Chillicothe, take Route 91 south about 3 miles, then take Highway 392 south about 3 miles.
Nearby Markers
- 4.2 mi N Chillicothe First Methodist Church Chillicothe
- 4.5 mi W W. P. A. Sanitation Project Medicine Mound
- 4.5 mi W Medicine Mound Community Medicine Mound
- 4.5 mi W Hicks & Cobb General Merchandise Store Medicine Mound
- 5.4 mi SW Old Mounds Cemetery Medicine Mound
- 10 mi SW Pease River Battlefield Margaret