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which, for its feeding value, is a most unprofitable 

 crop, and especially in view of the fact that it is a 

 crop that has done and is doing more to produce 

 worn and worn-out lands than any crop ever grown 

 upon the farm. Clover ranks well, but there are 

 better and more profitable forage crops. A fine 

 forage crop for cattle, sheep, or horses is hunga- 

 rian. It produces its large crops of high feeding 

 qualities in eight weeks, and can be sown upon 

 wheat lands after wheat harvest, and after its 

 harvest the soil can be sown to rye or other green 

 manuring and cover crops, which can be pastured 

 in the fall or left to cover the ground and to be 

 plowed under in the spring, thus procuring sev- 

 eral crops the same season and yet providing for 

 an excellent method of farm procedure by which 

 soil fertility can be maintained. 



Sorghum is another most valuable forage crop 

 of rich feeding value which can be quickly grown, 

 producing tons of forage to the acre, and will so 

 grow on most any soil, and will as soon as cut 

 immediately grow a second crop which can be 

 used for forage, or, a better plan is to use it as 

 a green manuring crop for plowing under, for 

 sorghum is valuable for this purpose. 



Kafir, a forage plant of the species of sorghum, 

 and like unto corn, is most valuable as it flourishes 

 at its best in the semi-arid or dry regions. Na- 

 ture has endowed this plant with a virtue worth 

 millions to the business of farming. That virtue 

 is the plant's ability to cease growth and lie dor- 

 mant without injury during periods of drouth 

 and to resume its growth when rains come to re- 

 fresh it. It also has the power to produce the 



