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vocated its use ever since. I have seen it claimed 

 that three and four cuttings could be made from the 

 one seeding in a season, but I have never been able 

 to obtain more than two, and the last two years I 

 used this second growth to plow under, sowing the 

 ground to rye for the next spring's crop. This, I 

 believe, is one of the advantages of the crop, that 

 the seed grows the first crop for the cattle and the 

 second crop for the land the same season, followed 

 by rye for the first cutting next spring. This gives 

 two soiling crops and one green manure crop upon 

 the same land in a single season. Sorghum, when 

 once established, will flourish during a drought in 

 which corn conies to a standstill. Some recommend 

 drilling it in with corn, or in alternate rows with 

 corn. I should think this would be a very good 

 idea. 



It is possible, no doubt, that in the Southern 

 States, where the seasons are longer, and where land 

 is in a high state of cultivation, it might produce 

 two crops or even three as claimed; and as it is 

 a comparatively new soiling forage, I submit the 

 following reports from experimental stations and 

 from newspaper articles on the subject. Sow in 

 drills to cultivate same as corn, as it starts slowly. 

 It is better to plant on sod, thus preventing weeds 

 getting the start of it. 

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