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TESTIMONY OF ASA WHITNEY. 
Mr. Wlutney, “the Railroad Napoleon,” whose dairy 
farm is near the city of Washington, found that if the 
morning’s milk of cows fed upon the sorgho were put in 
a bottle or laid on the ice to keep it cool, by night it 
would have become so thickened with cream as to be 
removed from the bottle with some difficulty. A gentle- 
man in Massachusetts informed me that he had experi- 
mented with sorgho in feeding a number of cows, and 
that it not only augmented the richness of the milk, but 
the quantity likewise. 
TESTIMONY OF AUTHOR. 
We have on our farm a pair of large Conestoga horses, 
which are kept constantly at hard work throughout the 
season. Last year we fed them for about six weeks on 
sorgho stalks, with nothing else except a little timothy 
hay; and we found that, although they were continually 
plowing, hauling stones and lumber, and performing such 
laborious duty, yet at the end of the time they were as 
sleek and fat as could be desired. 
TESTIMONY OF MR. GRATZ, OF KENTUCKY. 
Benjamin Gratz, Esq., of Lexington, Kentucky, Presi- 
dent of the County Agricultural Society, informs me in 
a recent letter, that his son, a large planter, tried some 
experiments in feeding his mules on sorgho, and that 
‘they consumed it with great avidity, leaving no residue. 
He also gave a portion to his hogs, with the same result, 
