1 68 FARM CROPS 



The usual time to seed is after corn planting or 

 any time during June. The seed bed should be 

 deep and well prepared. The millet seeds are small 

 and, therefore, a thorough preparation of the ground 

 pays. About a half bushel to the acre is used for 

 seed when the Hungarian, German or Common 

 millets are grown, but when the Broom Corn or 

 Barnyard millets are grown, heavier seeding is 

 necessary. The usual custom is to seed broadcast 

 and slightly cover with a harrow. In some places 

 the seed is drilled. The crop can be cut for soiling 

 in about two months and a period slightly longer 

 than this will mature a crop of hay. 



When millet hay is fed to horses disorder often 

 results, placing the crop in the undesirable list of 

 hay feeds for horses. No trouble has ever been 

 occasioned when fed to other classes of live stock. 

 When millet has been used as a soiling crop or put 

 into a silo it has been very favorably used as a horse 

 feed. It is advisable in harvesting to allow the 

 millet to lay some hours before raking. The stems 

 being large and succulent, some time is necessary 

 for the drying-out process. A good practice is to 

 put the millet in shocks from the windrows and to 

 let the hay cure in the shocks for several days. In 

 warm weather there is no difficulty in curing the 

 hay, but if the season is against rapid curing, millet 

 is more difficult to handle than clover. 



Anywhere from 2 to 4 tons to the acre may be 

 obtained. The Japanese variety yields very heavily 

 and is one of our most desirable soiling varieties. 

 Indeed the heaviest yielding millet is, without doubt, 

 the Japanese barnyard variety. If grown for seed 

 in good soils, from 65 to 90 bushels are procurable 

 from an acre. On lighter soils the yield drops down 



