VALUE AS A FORAGE CROP. 63 
COUNT BEAUREGARD’S EXPERIENCE. 
The illustrious President of the Agricultural Assembly 
of Toulon, Count Beauregard, mentions the fact that he 
had “sustained for a month and a half sixty head of 
stock with the produce of a hectare (about two acres), 
which had yielded sugar sorgho the previous year, and 
which, by a circumstance independent of my wish, had 
not been resown this year, and had received but one light 
plowing, and no manure. This hectare was so well pro- 
vided with vigorous plants springing from the seeds 
which had been spilled at the harvest, that I did not feel 
willing to turn them under, and thus we were enabled 
throughout the entire month July and half of August, to 
give to our animals an excellent nourishment, and one on 
which they throve marvelously well.” And, further- 
more, he says, “‘ The only thing which my very consider- 
able experience of the past three years constrains me to 
add is, that this plant, contrary to what might be feared, 
robs and deteriorates the soil to a much less extent than 
many others with which I am acquainted; for I have 
harvested three crops in three consecutive years from the 
same field, with but a slight manuring in each case, and 
the yields have been more and more excellent.” 
TESTIMONY OF G. DE LACOSTE. 
Lacoste says, p. 26 of his book, that if fed green to 
cows, the sorgho will cause an increased flow of milk, 
and that every portion of the saccharine stalk is eaten 
with avidity by cattle, and that it seems specially adapted 
to nourishing them. 
