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dry weather as well as the former, is a heavy feeder and will do best 

 upon a warm moist soil. It makes a very rapid growth, when the tem- 

 perature is high. If sown by itself, 14 quarts of seed are sufficient for 

 one acre ; when combined with peas eight quarts of millet and one 

 and one-half bushels of peas are the quantities required. The first 

 seeding may be made together with peas May 10 to 15. The 

 peas should first be sown and harrowed in deeply and the millet cov- 

 ered more lightly with an acme or other harrow. Should the weather 

 prove cool during ihe latter part of May and early June the peas 

 will grow more rapidly than the millet, but with the advent of a 

 few warm days the latter will rapidly overcome the disadvantage. 

 A second and even a third seeding of millet may be made (without 

 peas) at intervals of 20 and 15 days respectively. The millet and 

 peas will be ready to cut about August 1 and the other two sow- 

 ings will follow, so that green feed may be secured from this crop 

 during all of August if desired. Cutting should begin even before 

 the millet begins to head and can be continued for 10 or 12 days. 

 When the millet is well headed it becomes tough and animals are 

 likely to refuse a considerable portion of the stems. Millet does 

 not make a satisfactory hay because of the difficulty in drying. 



A mixture of corn and soy beans is a most desirable 



Corn and Soy fodder crop for the last ten days of August and the 



beans. first two or three weeks in September. A medium 



early corn is preferred. Some of the sweet varie- 

 ties are excellent. The Canada or Longfellow are also desirable. 

 The medium green soy bean is the most suitable variety. This Jap- 

 anese bean is now so well known that a description is hardly neces- 

 sary. The seed can be purchased of all large dealers. It grows 3 

 to 3| feet high, needs no support, and is thickly studded with leaves. 

 For several years we have sown the corn with an Eclipse corn planter 

 in rows 3| feet apart, and then planted the beans with a hand corn 

 planter in the same rows with the corn, one lot of beans being 

 placed every few inches. An experimenthas convinced us, however, 

 that it 18 preferable to mix the corn and beans together in the pro- 

 portion of about 10 quarts of corn to 7 quarts of beans. This 

 mixture can be planted with an Eclipse or other planter. The 

 planter should be regulated so that the kernels will be about two 

 inches apart in the row. It will of course be impossible to maintain 



