VALUE AS A FORAGE CROP. 65 
become well dried before it is bound up. The bundles 
should be small, and before putting them in stack, or in 
the barns, should be set up in groups in the field to cause 
a further quantity of water to be evaporated. The stack 
should, of course, be built on rails or other convenient 
poles, to allow of a circulation of air beneath, and to 
carry out this requisition to a greater extent, it is well to 
build the stack around rails set up on end, and leaning 
inwards towards the center; by which plan, of course, 
the interior of the stack is in direct contact with the 
atmosphere, and thus heating will not so soon occur. 
The extra trouble of curing is repaid by the increased 
quantity of product, as compared with hay; but even 
taking considerable precautions, it may occur that an 
inexperienced person will not be able to save his crop in 
good condition on a first trial. 
THE SORGHO IN TEXAS THIS YEAR. 
The newspaper accounts from Texas, which have 
recently appeared, state the fact, that in all parts of that 
state the Chinese Sugar Cane has manifested its superi- 
ority to sowed corn in withstanding the drouth. 
ITS ABILITY TO WITHSTAND DROUTH. 
This entirely agrees with my experience of it last 
summer ; for the sorgho did not manifest its real rapidity 
of growth until the commencement of the two months 
“heated term” which we endured. When our corn 
plants drooped and curled their leaves, the sorgho was 
not only unaffected by the heat, but daily grew in beauty 
