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what is really the fact, that animals fed upon the sorgho 
stalks, should be quickly brought into a sleek, fat 
condition. 
SIZE OF STALKS IN NORTH AFRICA. 
F. Bourdais, the distiller, at Constantine, Algeria, says, 
and he calls upon Mr. Hardy to testify to the fact, that on 
his place he has had a number of sorgho plants which sent 
up sixteen and eighteen suckers to a height of twelve feet, 
and measured four inches and three quarters in circum- 
ference at the base. Numbers of others sent up ten and 
twelve shoots; and the average of his field was six and 
seven shoots from a single seed. 
TESTIMONY OF DR. TURREL AND LACOSTE. 
Dr. Turrel, in his article to the Bulletin Mensuel de la 
Societé Imp. Zodl. d’Acclimation, says, that his pigs 
crunch the succulent and sweet stalks of the sorgho with 
delight. They devour the seeds, and thrive on them. 
Grellet Balquerie maintains that sorgho seed can be fed 
to horses in place of oats. 
Lacoste, in a lettter to the Imperial Society, says, that 
“the seeds fattened poultry, and for feeding to horses, 
will profitably replace barley; and for this one thing, 
pay all costs of cultivation.” According to Professor 
Thompson,* of Glasgow, the barley contains 11.31 per 
cent of nutritive matter.. 
* Thompson’s “ Food of Animals.” N. Y., C. M. Saxton & Co. 
