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to the acre, but we could continue to cut until stopped by cold 

 weather. An English tenant will pay ten pounds ($50) rent per 

 acre for meadows, and get always two, frequently three, crops per 

 year, yielding from three to five tons per acre. We could do this 

 also by following the same system of farming, and that is to run 

 the manure wagon constantly. 



DHOUBO CORN, DURRA OR DOURA, INDIAN MILLET-^ 

 (Sorghum vulgare.) 



In the West Indies, it is called guinea corn, in Arabia, dhouro, in 

 India, jovaree, and in China, nagara. In some countries it is cul- 

 tivated as a forage plant, the stems containing a large proportion of 

 saccharine matter, and when dry affording a fine hay, though rough. 

 The nutritive quality of the seeds nearly equals that of wheat, 

 From its resemblance to Indian corn, in the south of Europe, it is 

 called small maize. On rich land it grows from eight to twelve 

 feet high, and it produces more bushels of seed than any other 

 known cereal to the acre. 



There are several varieties of this cereal, being sports from the 

 original. Chocolate corn, Tennessee rice, chicken corn, are some 

 of its synonyms. It is a native of Central Asia, and is cultivated 

 extensively in Asia, Africa, West Indies, Brazil, and in the south- 

 ern part of the United States. It will grow to perfection from 

 Pennsylvania to Florida. There are two varieties usually culti- 

 vated, the " white " and the " red," both good, but the red pro~ 

 duces a great many more seeds some say as many as four times 

 the quantity of the other. The red matures earlier, too ; the white, 

 being in higher latitudes, is often caught by frosts. The latter^ 

 however, is preferable when intended for food. A failure of this 

 crop in Arabia and Africa, would be as great a calamity as that of 

 corn in the United States. The meal is white and makes delicious 

 breakfast cakes, and is said to be much better than corn meal. 



Its yield varies according to the soil on which it is sown. On 

 rich sandy loam or alluvial bottoms, it will make from 100 to 150 

 bushels per acre, but unlike the other cereals, except buckwheat, it 

 will grow well on soil however poor. On rocky olayey land, that 

 will scarcely sprout foxtail, I have seen the most luxuriant crops. 

 It will continue to grow until frost, and after the first head matures 



