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Agricultural Jonrnal of Victoria. 



Amber Cane Compared with Japanese Millet. 



Amber Cane. Japanese Millet. Amber Cane. Japanese Millet 

 Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. . 



Average of 9 Fields. 



9 50 



8-79 



11-74 



Average of 6 Fields 



Maize Compared with Pearl Millet. 



Maize. Pearl Millet. Maize. 



Tons. Tons. Tons. 



1207 1273 14-60 



1043 



Pearl Millet. 

 Tons. 

 1472 



Average of 6 Fields 



Average of 4 Fields 



Amber Cane Compared with Pearl Millet. 



Amber Cane. Pearl Millet. Amber Cane. Pearl Millet. 

 Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. 



13-72 



12-73 



15-90 



14-72 



Amber Cane Compared with Teosinte. 

 Amber Cane. Teosinte. Amber Cane. Teosinte. 



Tons. 

 13-79 



Tons. 



16-78 



Tons. 

 15-10 



Tons. 

 19-77 



It will be noticed that the amber cane has in both cases given 

 heavier yields than either of the millets, while the maize appears 

 To have been slightly exceeded in the yields by both. Thi.s, I think, 

 (in the better class of soils would not, as far as maize and Japanese 

 millet are concerned, be a general thing. A number of these returns 

 were secured from light soils of no great natural fertility, and on such 

 .soils, with manures, the Japanese millet particularly has done better 

 than the maize. As a general thing heavier yields will, I think, be 

 -■ibtained from maize than from Japanese millet as a first cut. On 

 rich, moist flats the pearl millet may exceed the maize, but is slow of 

 growth and late in maturing. An objection raised by one farmer is 

 that the cows do not take readily to it. Fed on amber cane and maize, 

 iloubtless some little time would be required to acquire a taste for a 

 different fodder, but I hardly think the objection will be found a 

 general one. The Japanese millet, apart from its heavy yield, is ex- 

 ceedingly quick of growth, appears to be relished by all kinds of 

 stock, IS fine in the stalk, makes good hay, and put in early ought to 

 give two, perhaps three, cuts daring the season. It should be cut just 

 as the seed heads are a})pearing. 



The Returns from Teosixte. 



It will be noticed that the tables show the returns from another 

 crop — teosinte, a crop very similar in appearance and character to the 

 sorghums. It has the reputation, under favorable conditions, of pro- 

 ducing the largest bulk of fodder of all forage plants. The yields it 



