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non-nitrogenous nutrients, and should be supplemented with oil 

 cake." 



Major H. E. Alvord, of Mass., in the Rural New Yorker, 

 speaks as follows: " Hungarian grass is a valuable auxiliary. 

 Where a piece of grass or grain, which looks well in the 

 autumn or even in early spring, shows in May that it will not 

 produce a profitable crop, its fragments may be depended upon 

 to do most good as green manure. Then plow late in May, 

 turning well, harrow two or three times at intervals, sow 

 Hungarian grass the latter part of June, cut it in August 

 and re-seed the land. Hungarian, according to age at har- 

 vesting, may be adapted to any class of stock. It makes quite 

 a draft on the land, and, either when it is sown or with the fol- 

 lowing crop, a dressing of cheap fertilizer is no more than fair, 

 like agricultural salt, kainit, or the raw ground Carolina phos- 

 phate. Knowledge of the facts in every case must determine 

 what can be most economically used." 



Waldo F. Brown, of Ohio, in the same paper, writes: "In a 

 season when wheat and clover have been generally killed over a 

 large area of country, many farmers are asking what can we sub- 

 stitute for hay? We have two good substitutes millet and corn 

 fodder. Either maybe put in, in this latitude, as late as June 10, 

 with a good prospect of a crop. Millet will yield largely on good 

 land, but the land should be finely pulverized. It is best to sow as 

 soon after a rain as the land can be worked, as if sown just before a 

 rain there is more danger of weeds coming up with it. The 

 seed should be covered lightly, and I prefer a plank drag for 

 the purpose, as it presses the earth to the seed, and retains the 

 moisture till it sprouts. When sown for hay, from three pecks 

 to a bushel of seed per acre should be used." 



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Spikelets 1-fld. in a close or open panicle, rachilla jointed 

 ftbove the lower glumes, often extending beyond the floret into a 

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