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borhood, and is rapidly extending to more distant places. 

 If all the advantages offered by this crop were fully appre- 

 ciated and availed of, the possession of this plant in your 

 climate would be one of the greatest agricultural blessings 

 of this and the more Southern States. For my individual 

 share of this benefit, stinted as it is by our colder climate, 

 I estimate it as adding, at least, one thousand bushels of 

 wheat annually to my crop." 



I can add nothing to what is said above. 



I am, Colonel, very respectfully, yours, etc. 



H. M. POLK. 



Bolivar, Hardeman county, Tennessee. 



CHINESE SUGAR CORN (Sorghum nigrum.) 



In 1854 some insignifi- 

 cant packages of seeds were 

 sent from the then patent 

 office, bearing this inscrip- 

 tion: 



"SUGAR MILLET. 



(Sorgho Sucre.) 



(Good for fodder, green or dry, 

 and for making sugar.") 



Who could have foreseen, 

 from these few characters, 

 that a plant was then being 

 added to this country more 

 important than any since the 

 discovery of America and 

 the discovery, to Europeans, 

 of Indian corn? 



In tiie midst of the great 

 success of the New World 

 in agricultuial products, the 



