DHOTIRO CORN. 



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About twenty-five or thirty years ago, it could be seen on 

 the plantation of almost every farmer in the State. It 

 gave very general satisfaction, and yet it went out as sud- 

 denly as it came into popularity. This was due to the cry 

 that it impoverished the land. This verdict was accepted 

 without question, and its culture abandoned ; but it is 

 manifest, from subsequent experiments, that it detracts as 

 little from the fertility of the soil as any other cereal, much 

 less than some. 



If the stalks are left and only the grain and fodder 

 removed, and the former fed on the field, and plowed in as 

 before stated, the soil will not be greatly injured. It will 

 not kill cattle like clover, and no care is necessary but to 

 salt and water them. One would be surprised how quickly 

 cattle will fatten on the bare stalks, and besides they will 

 leave the ground covered ankle deep with manured stalks. 



With all these facts before us, and our own experience in 

 its cultivation, we most heartily commend its use to the 

 citizens of Tennessee. There is no character of soil, from 

 the rich alluvial bottoms of the Mississippi to the sterile 

 mountain lands of East Tennessee, but what will make 

 good crops of Dhouro Corn, and we would like to see it on 

 every farm, if for no other use than as feed for fowls. 



The following analysis of the green fodder and green 

 clover will show their comparative values : 



It has more heating properties and more fat producing 

 principles than red clover, but is not so rich in flesh 

 formers. 



