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it in the liquid form. It may be done by diluting the ma- 

 nure with from five to ten parts of water, and using a cart, 

 such as is used for sprinkling streets. Another, and the 

 most common way, is to drive through the meadow with a 

 load of good compost ; such as we have described, and with 

 two hands in the rear of the wagon with shovels, it can be 

 scattered broadcast as fast as the team will walk. 



Pastures treated to a top-dressing after every cutting, 

 could, like the English pastures, instead of three acres to the 

 ox, feed three oxen to one acre, and the meadows would not 

 yield a scanty ton 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. 



DHOURO CORN, DURRA OR DOURA, INDIAN MIL- 



LJbiT (Sorghum vulgare.) 



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

 dhouro, in India, jovaree, and in China, nagara. In some 

 countries it is cultivated as a forage plant, the stems con- 

 taining 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 resem- 

 blance 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, 



