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and set up in shocks. It has very little, if any advantage over corn when 

 the latter is cut and put up before the blades are dry. Teosinte harvested 

 in the same way would probably have its greatest value and be most easily 

 saved at the smallest cost for labor. It is superior to corn as a forage 

 crop only in its capacity of giving a greater yield. 



Teosinte — Euchlcena Mexicana, E. lii.x iiriatis. 



Showing its robust character and habit of throwing up many stalks or culms 

 from a single root. 



SUGAR SORGHUAT— CHINESE SUGAR CORN— (.Wi,'//«;« sac- 

 charatum.) — (Hay, Pasture, Forage, Silo and for the Manu- 

 facture of Syrup. 

 Fifty years ago sugar sorghum or Chinese sugar-corn, was unknown 

 in the United States. It is now grown to a greater or less extent in every 

 southern state, all through the western states and as far north as Pennsyl- 



