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the wheat question, as he had lately bestowed much time and 

 practice on the wheats and their enemies. 



Dr. Waterbury, of New-York, offered the following resolution : 



Resolved^ That the Farmers' Club of the American Institute 

 invite correspondence from all parts of the country relative to 

 the original distribution of our native forest trees and indigenous 

 plants, and also relative to the orginal distribution of the differ- 

 ent varieties of fresh water fishes. 



This resolution, after some interesting remarks by the learned 

 mover, was unanimously adopted. 



Mr. Judd of the Agriculturist spoke of the value of millet as 

 a crop little attended to, but he would try to bring it before our 

 farmers, hoping that they would give it a fair trial. 



MILLET— ONE MAN'S TRIAL AND WHAT HE THINKS 



ABOUT IT. 



Having with many others suffered from the severe drouth of 

 1854, in vay hay crop, I was induced last spring to procure half 

 a bushel of millet seed. When preparing my ground for oats, I 

 reserved one acre and a quarter for the millet. After corn plant- 

 ing, say about the first of June, I plowed the said ground again, 

 harrowed it down, sowed my millet seed, harrowed thoroughly 

 'again, and quietly waited the result. Well, after a while the 

 young sprouts made their appearance, looking very much like 

 what is generally called pigeon grass. But after securing my 

 wheat and oat harvests, I had a heavy crop to cut on my millet 

 ground. Leaving a small piece which I had sown thinner than 

 the rest to ripen for seed, I mowed the field and cured it as 

 clover should always be cured — in small cocks. When suffi- 

 ciently dry, I carted ^ve heavy loads to my barn, and my horses, 

 cows and sheep have thanked me many times for my first experi- 

 ment with millet. They have all eaten it readily and greedily, 

 and I am so highly pleased with it that I shall sow much more 

 this spring. 



The time for sowing should be as indicated above, when the 

 weather is warm enough to make corn readily — from the 1 st to 

 the 15th of June — and the time of harvesting comes after the 

 rush of other harvests is over, thus accommodating the farmer, 

 at both periods when it wants attention. It yields seed bounti- 

 fully, Avhich makes a flour very palatable for man, and is deci- 

 dedly nutritious for every animal not forgetting the fowls — they 

 are very fond of it. I say then to my brother farmers, try a piece 

 of millet, and I am confident that if you try it once, you will 

 again. — Ohio Cultivator. 



