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has a small head, a simple spike, while the others have compound 

 spikes, most notably the German. It is easily raised, at less cost 

 than corn, and makes, on good ground, nearly double as many 

 bushels as the latter per acre. For all kinds of fowls it is unsur- 

 passed, and it is a powerful stimulant to laying eggs. 



To sow for hay, prepare the ground in a thorough manner, pul- 

 verizing it completely, and when the ground is in a sufficiently 

 moist condition, in June, sow the seed, a bushel to the acre. Never 

 sow if the ground is too dry or too wet. If too dry, the seed near 

 the surface will parch in the rays of the sun, and a stand will fail 

 to appear. If too wet, the usual injury to the land occurs, and 

 the crop " frenches " or turns yellow and dwarfs. After sowing, 

 harrow well and the labor is over. The millet will require seventy 

 or eighty days to mature, unless it is sown in July, when it will 

 require a few days longer. 



Two crops of Hungarian grass can easily be raised from the same 

 ground annually. A farmer of Davidson county raised a most 

 excellent crop of Hungarian grass, sown the 1st day of September 

 and cut on the 10th of October. Another, of Williamson county, 

 secured a good crop of German millet, sown on the 13th day of 

 August, and cut on the 12th day of October. 



For seed, prepare the ground as above described, and then, with 

 a light bull-tongue or skooter plow, run light parallel rows thirty 

 inches apart, and with a tin cup or oyster can that has three or four 

 holes punched in the bottom with a 4-penny nail, walk rapidly 

 along the furrow, and the seed will sift into it from the cup about 

 right for a stand. Cover very lightly with a cotton coverer, and 

 when the seeds begin to sprout, but before they show the sprouts 

 above ground, run over the field with a harrow, so as to loosen the 

 ground and destroy weeds. Afterwards cultivate with a cultivator 

 and double-shovel, one plowing with each being all that is required. 

 It will be necessary to thin out the Tennessee millet with hoes, 

 leaving a mere thread of stems, as it stools prodigiously ; but this 

 will be unnecessary with either of the other three, as they scarcely 

 stool at all. 



To save it for seed, it must be cut with reap-hooks, taking just 

 enough of the head to enable the laborer to make it into bundles ; 

 or if preferred, it can be broken off at the head, taking only the 

 seed, leaving the stubble to renew the soil. They are, after treading 



