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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 old 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, tak- 

 ing 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 out in a barn or on a clean 

 spot, separated from the chaff with an ordinary wheat fan. 



This grass is of great value to the renter who has no op- 

 portunity of continuing in possession of the land long 

 enough to set a meadow. A crop of millet is a good forerun- 

 ner for a meadow, as it destroys all the noxious weeds, and 

 leaves the land in a fine condition for timothy or Herd's grass. 

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