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SO much so as the Early Amber variety of sorghum. 

 When grazed off at the hight of about a foot it at 

 once shot up again and with a greatly increased num- 

 ber of shoots. The blades of the Kaffir corn were 

 coarser and when the pasture had been grazed down 

 they did not grow up again so erectly nor so numer- 

 ously ; and yet it is possible that in localities in which 

 there is betimes a deficiency of moisture, Kaffir 

 corn may furnish more pasture than sorghum. 

 Milo maize in both of its varieties should furnish 

 excellent pasture and much of it, since it is a vigorous 

 plant and prolific in growing leaves. But no one of 

 these plants should prove equal to teosinte in provid- 

 ing pasture. When teosinte is not sown too thickly, 

 it produces leaves in great abundance, nor has it a 

 tendency to throw up the stems at so early a period 

 as the other non-saccharine sorghums. But the 

 author has not been able to glean any information 

 based on experience with reference to the pasturing 

 of this plant. In the far south it would prove a 

 great boon as a pasture plant. 



While these plants may under some conditions 

 be pastured off by any class of live stock, there would 

 probably be much waste from pasturing on them 

 heavy animals, as horses, mules or cattle, and the 

 more advanced the growth of the crops the greater 

 would be the relative waste. But it would not be wise 

 to pasture such animals upon them even at an early 

 stage of growth, for then the plants would be so 

 much bruised and crushed by the hoofs of the 

 animals that many of them would be likely to 

 perish. But there may be occasions when it would 

 be in order to pasture these crops with heavy 

 animals, although much waste should result, as 

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