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unexcelled on account of the large flow of rich miUc, which it induces. 

 Care should be taken at first in the feeding of the green forage to cattle 

 unaccustomed to it. They should be restrained and not suffered to take 

 a full feed, as it is very succulent and like clover, is apt to induce hoven. 



AS A PASTURE — As a pasture grass sorghum has been highly 

 commended. The Arkansas Experiment Station issued a bulletin in 

 August, 1896, in which it is stated that sorghum gave excellent results as 

 a hog pasture used in connection with clover and Spanish peanuts to give 

 a succession of fresh food. Sheep, hogs and milch cattle are especially fond 

 of it. For a pasture it should be sown very thickly and it is a wise policy 

 to sow two or three fields or parts of fields separate from each other in 

 sorghum and pasture them alternately. Sorghum grows so rapidly that 

 as soon as the stock is taken off one field it will, within a week be ready 

 to pasture again. Tennessee farmers would find it greatly to their interest 

 to break up portions of their stubble fields when a catch of clover has 

 failed or been destroyed, and sow in sorghum for a late summer pasture. 

 The capacity of this plant to resist drought makes it especially valuable 

 for pastures at a season when clover, blue grass and orchard grass and all 

 the best pasture grasses have fallen off or become exhausted in their graz- 

 ing capacity by reason of the summer's drought. I know of nothing that 

 will so well fill up the gap between the spring pastures and the fall pas- 

 tures as sorghum sown upon wheat stubble from the latter part of June to 

 the last of July. Farmers should try it. 



SORGHUM FOR THE SILO— Director Redding, of the Georgia 

 Experiment Station, regards sorghum as a material for ensilage quite sat- 

 isfactory. He says: "For the silo I consider the three most valuable 

 plants in order, are Indian corn, cowpeas and sorghum." Notwith- 

 standing this favorable estimate of the value of sorghum for the silo 

 many object to it on account of its tendency to become acid. It also 

 lacks the nutritive quality of Indian corn and unless cut very early in its 

 growth the stalk becomes so hard that it is not eaten with comfort by 

 cattle. One advantage, however, of sorghum is that it will remain green 

 in the fall for a much longer time than corn and so a larger quantity of 

 it may be utilized for making ensilage. When it is grown in conjunction 

 with cowpeas or soy beans it gives a much more nutritious ensilage than 

 corn taken by itself. 



With all the short-comings of sorghum it must be regarded as one 

 of the most useful and widely cultivated plants that has ever been intro- 

 duced into the United States. Among the small farmers it is highly 

 prized for its syrup-making properties. Among stock-breeders it is 

 valued because of the immense amount of forage which it supplies at a 

 small cost. It has the capacity to resist dry weather better than almost 

 any other crop. It may be used for more purposes than almost any 

 other crop. It is very valuable as a pasturage for sheep, hogs, cattle, 

 mules and horses. It makes good hay for winter feeding. The seed is 

 said to be worth, for feeding purposes, about 90 per cent, as much as 

 corn. The hay is better than corn-fodder and the stalk when properly 

 cured may be reckoned among the best fattening foods grown. 



