Soiling Crops. 149 



ARIZONA. 



Sorghum and alfalfa supplement each other, each 

 supplying what the other lacks to make a good cattle 

 food. 



EDS. COUNTRY GENTLEMAN: In the suggestion to W. L., 

 page 206, who wishes to try soiling, there is nothing said 

 about sorghum, and yet it is without question the best soiling 

 crop, yielding food rich and palatable and which can be cut in 

 two months from sowing the seed, and is in its prime in less 

 than three months. It has the property of enduring drought 

 beyond any valuable plant that I am acquainted with, and it 

 is eaten absolutely without waste. Besides, it has so much 

 the nature of grass that its quality is not impaired by thick 

 planting, as is corn. If W. L. will try a plat of it this year I 

 predict that he will never go through a summer again without 

 it. When you find a crop that will furnish full feed for six 

 cows a day from a square rod, you will realize the value of 

 soiling crops ; and I have done this with sorghum repeatedly, 

 grown without any cultivation. W. F. BROWN. 



KAFFIR CORN (NON-SACCHARINE SORGHUM). 



We have read more or less concerning this variety 

 of forage, and I have taken considerable pains to as- 

 certain its real value compared with Stowell's Ever- 

 green and sorghum. It is a corn with similar habits 

 to the saccharine sorghums. The following article 

 appeared in the " Breeder's Gazette," and as it pro- 

 duces such strong evidence of the value of Kaffir 

 corn, I publish as much of the article as pertains to 

 its value as a soiling crop : 



