64 THE CHINESE SUGAR CANE. 
GOVERNOR GARDNER, OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
Hon. H. J. Gardner, Governor of Massachusetts, in a 
letter to Mr. J. F. C. Hyde, enumerates the following 
facts : 
“ As a green fodder it produces more food for cattle 
on the same space, and at the same cost as corn. Cattle 
prefer it to corn fodder; for I repeatedly gave it mixed 
with corn stalks to cows, and it was amusing to see them 
carefully select the sugar canes from the other. Itis 
more juicy and nutritious for milch cows than any other 
fodder, for it is well known that sugar contains more 
nourishment than almost any other vegetable production 
in daily use.” 
EXPERIENCE OF OC. L. FLINT, OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
Chas. L. Flint, Esq., Secretary of the Massachusetts 
State Board of Agriculture, in his letter to Mr. Hyde, 
says that he knows instances where cattle picked it out, 
stalk by stalk, from bundles of corn stalks; and further, 
‘there seems every reason to believe that, asa forage 
plant, it will very rapidly come into general favor, and 
‘help us essentially through our summer drouths.” 
CURLNG. 
Any one of my readers who has grown our common 
corn for fodder, will understand that considerable care 
must be taken in curing the green succulent stalks of the 
sorgho. It should be cut in the morning, when the dew 
is off the plants, and suffered to lie on the ground and 
