There is no difficulty in getting a start of Egyptian corn during the dry season providing the soil contains moisture enough to germinate the seed.  Afterward the growth will be more or less according to the moisture present and will be available for forage purposes.  Whether a seed crop can be had by late sowing depends upon the frost occurrence in the particular locality, for it only takes a light frost to destroy the plant.  To get the best results, particularly with late sowing, the seeds should be drilled in rows far enough apart for horse cultivation; about forty pounds of seed to the acre.  What you get in this way will depend upon the amount of moisture in the soil and the duration of the frost-freedom.

Kaffir and Egyptian Corn.

Does Kaffir corn yield as well here as Egyptian corn?  The fodder is good feed and the heads stand erect and at a more even height from the ground, which makes three advantages over Egyptian.  Irrigation in either case is the some.

The reasons you mention have no doubt had much to do with the present popularity of an upright plant like Kafir over a gooseneck like the old dhoura or Egyptian, which was the type first introduced in California.  For years there has been more gooseneck sorghum in the Sacramento valley than in any other part of the State.  It may have superior local adaptions or the people may be more conservative.  The way to determine which is better is to try it out, and, unless the Egyptian does better in grain and forage than the upright growers, take to the grain which holds its head up.

Sorghums for Seed.

Which sorghum is the most profitable to plant for the seed only White
Egyptian, Brawn Egyptian or Yellow Mila?

Which sorghum is best is apparently a local question and governed by local conditions to a certain extent.  Egyptian corn (with the goose-neck stem) has held more popularity in your part of the Sacramento than elsewhere, while Kaffir corn (holding its head upright, as do many other sorghums) has been for years very popular in the San Joaquin.  In the Imperial valley Dwarf Milo is chiefly grown for a seed crop shattering and bird invasion are very important.  G. W. Dairs of the San Joaquin valley, says there is a very great difference in the different varieties regarding waste from the blackbird.  The ordinary white Egyptian corn is very easily shelled, and the birds waste many times more of the grain than they eat, after it has become thoroughly ripe.  The Milo maize, or red Egyptian corn, does not shell nearly so easily as the white corn, and the grain is considerably harder and less attractive to the blackbirds.  In fact, blackbirds will not work in a field of this variety of corn if there is any white corn in the vicinity to be had.  The dwarf Milo maize yields much more crop than the white Egyptian corn, or any other variety.  Blackbirds do not damage the white Kaffir corn to the extent they do the ordinary white Egyptian corn.