VALUE AS A FORAGE CROP. a2 
good as hay, and giving ¢en tons of dried nutritious matter, 
with but light manuring ? 
If a farmer has a field lying so that he can irrigate it 
by damming the waters of some small creek or brooklet, 
and by means of a flood-gate turning the water at will 
into small plow furrows, running alongside each row, 
it certainly would be very judicious practice to put it 
into sorgho fodder; for as his desire is not to make 
crystallized sugar, or other of the products of its sweet 
juices, excessive irrigation will not only do no harm to 
his crop, but will cause magnificent growths of plants in 
every way suitable for nourishing his stock. 
It must not be supposed that because Monsieur Hardy 
and others have obtained ten tons of dried forage from an 
acre of sorgho, the labor of every farmer, without res- 
pect to peculiarities of practice, soil, or climate, will be 
rewarded to an equal extent. If the proper soils be 
selected, and the proper method of culture be pursued, it 
lies within the reach of all to duplicate his success. With 
this culture in all its phases, forage, syrup, sugar, or any 
other, good judgment and perseverance will always win 
the prize. 
