Kaffir Corn
a variety of millet cultivated in some parts of Africa, and recently introduced into the United States.
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Kaffir Ox
the Cape buffalo. See BUFFALO.
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Kafir Corn
ka'fer korn, a plant of the sorghum family. It is a native of south Africa. It is much cultivated by the tribe of Kafirs. It is also called Jerusalem corn. It is a sorghum, not an Indian corn. The seeds are borne in a panicle like that of sorghum where the tassel of ordinary corn grows. It was introduced into western Kansas, Oklahoma, and other dry regions about twenty years ago. Its seed value is less than that of corn but the yield is greater. It withstands drouth and dry weather, producing a very fair crop where Indian corn is quite uncertain. Its cultivation is much like that of sorghum. It may be planted in rows or hills, or sowed broadcast. Statistics running through a number of years show that the yield varies from nineteen to seventy bushels per acre, with from one to four tons of fodder. The present area devoted to Kafir corn exceeds 1,500,000 acres. Kansas is the leading state. Kafir corn is fed chiefly as forage. Under semi-arid conditions Kafir corn yields fully twice as much grain and fodder as corn does. See Sorghum
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Kafiristan
KAFFIRISTAN, or CAFFRISTAN, a country of Central Asia, on the S. declivity of the Hindu Kush Mountains, forming part of the N. about 215,400 ,000 to 800,000. basin of Kabul; area, about 215,400 hanistan since square miles; pop. est. 200,000 to 300,000. are generally It forms a part of Afghanistan since Itants differ 1895, though the tribes are generally ribes in their independent. The inhabitants differ complexion. from the neighboring tribes in their to render origin, language, creed, and complexion. The soil is sufficiently fertile to render essary. workers outside intercourse almost unnecessary. The inhabitants are very skillful workers in wood and metals. 'ma), a town of the same
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Kafirs
a race of black people inhabiting the southeastern part of Africa. They belong to the great Bantu family. They are a black people, but are different from the true negroes. The Kafirs, as well as the Zulus, to whom they are closely related, are a tall, well-formed people, with brown complexions, frizzled hair, and heads of decidedly European shape. They are ordinarily peaceable, yet, when stirred up to warfare, make excellent soldiers. The native weapon is a spear or club. When first known Kafirs carried shields. They rely chiefly on cattle raising and hunting. The women, like those of the North American Indian, raise vegetables and field crops. Kafir corn , raised in the arid regions of the west for forage, is cultivated extensively by them. The name is spelled variously, as Kaffirs, Kaffres, or Caffres.
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Kagoshima
a town siu Island, of Japan, on a large bay of the same and porcename, at the S. end of Kiu-siu Island, pop., about with manufactures of pottery and porceled by the Britlain, arms, and cotton; pop., about In 1914 a volcano on 75,000. It was bombarded by the Briterupted and 100,000 ish fleet in 1863. In 1914 a volcano on an island nearby erupted and 100,000 persons became homeless. mber of Congress Kuppenheim,
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Kai
The seneschal of King Arthur, known in the French romances as Messire Queux, or Maitre Queux or Kuex. He is prominent in the Morte d'Arthur. In the tale of Kilhwuh and Olwen in the Mabinogion, he is identified with a personage whose "breath lasted nine nights and days under water and who "could exist nine nights and nine days without sleep." A wound from his sword could not be cured; he could make himself as tall as the highest tree, and so great was the heat of his nature that, during rain, whatever he carried remained dry. Originally a deity, a rain-and-thunder god, he had apparently degenerated, through a series of mythological processes, into a mere hero.
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Kai-Fung
capital of the Chinese int inundation province of Honan, near the S. bank of the Hoangho, where the great inundation occurred in 1887, long the chief settlement of the Jews in China. Pop., about by act of Parliament, and proclamation 200,000.
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Kai-Ping
the coal region in Chih-li, China; 75 miles N. E. of Tien-tsin, near the Lan-ho river, with railway connection with Hokow and with Tien-tsin via Taku. walled a (kir-wän'), KAIRWAN town of Tunis. It contains about 50 ecclesiastical structures, of which the mosque of Okba, who founded Kairwan about 670, is one of the most sacred of Islam. Outside the city, to the N. W., is the mosque of the Companion-i. e., of the Prophet; this and other sacred tombs have rendered Kairwan-i. e., caravan or resting-place-the Mecca or sacred city of northern Africa. As such, it has been jealously guarded from de filement by the presence of Jews and for the most part of Christian travelers; but it was entered and explored by the French in 1881. Kairwan makes copper vessels, potash, carpets, and articles in leather. Pop. about 25,000. (ki-zär-ē'ä) (ancient KAISARIAH Mazaca), a town of Asiatic Turkey, province Karamania, on the Karasa, a tributary of the Euphrates. It is a considerable place and the emporium of an extensive trade. Cotton is grown in great quantities in the vicinity. Manufactures, cotton fabrics and morocco leather. Pop. about 25,000. (ki"zär-ē-hind'), KAISAR-I-HIND Hindustani for Empress of India, the title conferred on Queen Victoria in 1876 KAKABIKKA at Delhi. d proclamat
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Kail
or KALE, the name given in England and Scotland to a variety of the Brassica oleracea, differing from the cabbage in the open heads of its leaves, which are used as "greens" and as food for cattle. There are many varieties, the leaves being sometimes green, sometimes reddish-brown, sometimes purplish in color, and plain, waved, curled, or laciniated in form. Usually a biennial plant; it is sometimes perennial, as in the variety known as Milan kale (chou de Milan). It is variously known as borecole, winter greens, German greens, and Scotch kale.
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Kailas
a sacred mountain of the Hindus in the Himalayas, near the sources of the Indus and Sutlej; height, 20,226 feet. KAINITE, a hydrous sulphate of potash and magnesia, found along with beds of rock-salt, especially in Germany and Austria. It is valuable for the production of double sulphate of potash and magnesia, and is used as a manure.
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