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or thickly drilled with a seed drill very early in the spring 

 with about one bushel of seed to the acre, and there is no 

 end to its feeding capacity. It will yield from 20 to 30 tons 

 ,of green fodder to the acre, that, when dry, will make three 

 Or four tons of the sweetest and best of hay, and stock will 

 -at up the last vestige of it. The proper time of cutting is 

 when the heads begin to flower, when it can be cut and 

 ibundled as corn fodder, or left spread on the ground, if the 

 -weather is good, for several days, and it will dry enough to 

 store but not in too large a bulk. Its stems are so suocu- 

 Jent that it will not cure quickly, the juices in it, however, 

 will sugar directly, and then it will keep as well as timothy. 

 It possesses fattening qualities in an eminent degree, and 

 nothing like it was ever used for improving a drove of 

 mules. But if the farmer has a drove of mules or herd of 

 cattle or milch cows, it can be fed to them from the time it 

 is two feet high, and they will eat it with avidity. By the 

 time a field is gone over, it will be ready to cut again, as 

 the root freely throws up new suckers, and will continue to 

 do so until stopped by the frost. Thus, as many as three 

 crops can be cut before it is destroyed by the cold. Or, if 

 it is not wanted as green forage, it can be cut at blossoming, 

 at least twice, without resowing, and the second crop will, 

 be as good as the first. A mule raiser in Williamson coun- 

 ty has several large racks, and as soon as the hay is in con- 

 dition to cut, he draws a load to each rack daily, and the 

 mules are allowed to go to it ad libitum, so the farmer has 

 only to give them grain to complete the process of fat- 

 tening. 



MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR FROM SORGHUM. 



When sorghum was first introduced to the people of the 

 United States they were informed it would not only 

 make syrup, but that the Chinese made all their sugar 

 from it. But little attention was given this product of cane 

 Ibowever, and the cultivators were content to make it into- 



