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•to get it too thick, and cutting up half to feed in stormy ^veather, 

 ■would feed about 1,0)0 sheep through the winter. He used Early Am- 

 ber aud Orange. Former the sweetest, but shelled out more. 



John D. White, Tulip, Dallas county, Arkansas, Report of De- 

 partment of Agriculture, 1857, page 197, says of stalks of sorghum: 



After even heavy frosts, stock still eat it with evident relish. Cattle, sheep, 

 and horses, are fond of the cane, which possesses excellent fattening properties. 

 Hogs, also, will eat it voraciously, even after it has been crushed. 



Ample time for two crops for forage. 



Mr. N. C. Merrill, Clorinda, Jsess county, Kansas, says he, for four 

 years, used sorghum as a substitute for corn for feeding stock, with ex- 

 tremely satisfactory results. 



Begin to feed as soon as sorghum is two feet high, and by the time 

 it heads out, hogs and cattle wiU begin to take on flesh very fast. 

 When lower part of head is ripe, cut with mowing machine with rake 

 attachments, and put in shocks. Cost, $1.25 to 82 per acre to put it 

 into shocks. From 500 to 800 pounds of beef (live weight) can be 

 realized from an acre, in September, October, and November, using 

 no other feed whatever. I realized at the rate of 1.100 pounds pork 

 from an acre in September and 700 pounds in November. Hogs 

 fatten very fast from July to September; and from December to spring, 

 with little range, will keep in good growing condition. The larger the 

 stalks, the better for hogs. Sorghum is really our best corn in this part 

 of the State. 



