VALUE AS A FORAGE CROP. 69 
YIELD PER ACRE OF SEED AND FODDER. 
In respect to the yield of seed per acre, the north, says 
M. d’Ivernois, cannot hope to equal the south, where 
sixty bushels are produced. This result was obtained in 
the neighborhood of Hyéres. In our own country, 
Col. Peters, of Georgia, obtained twenty-five bushels per 
acre, of thirty-six pounds per bushel. Gov. Hammond, 
of South Carolina, weighed a peck after three days’ 
drying in the sun, and found the weight to be thirty- 
eight pounds per bushel. I have weighed several lots 
from Vilmorin, Andrieux, & Co., of Paris, and Count 
Beauregard, and found the weight to vary from forty to 
forty-eight pounds. Mr. Hyde says the yield is from 
twenty-five to fifty bushels to the acre. 
Thus we see that on partially exhausted wheat soils, 
or alluvial soils, both of which are specially adapted to 
the sorgho, instead of a poor yield of wheat, we may 
plant the former, and, not taking anything else into con- 
sideration, obtain a crop of from ee to sixty 
bushels of seed. 
In the early portion of this chapter, I mentioned that 
Mr. Brown said that nine tons of dry fodder had been 
cut in Kentucky last season: Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, 
president of the United States Agricultural Society, tells 
me that he knows one instance where 19.844 lbs. of 
fodder had been obtained, the weight taken after a three 
months’ drying. The weight of the green stalks varies 
from seven to forty tons, according to circumstances. 
The Director of the Government Nursery at Hamma, 
Algiers, in his report to the Minister of War (see 
