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iiou-iiitrogenoua nutrients, and should bo supplemented with oil 

 cake." 



Major II. E. Alvord, of Mass., in the Rural Xt'w Yorker, 

 speaks as follows: "Hungarian grass is a valuable auxiliary. 

 Wiiere a piece of grass or grain, which looks well in the 

 autumn or even in early spring, shows in May that it will not 

 produce a profitable crop, its fragments may Ik* deju-nded upon 

 to do most good as green manure. Then j)l()w late in ^Fay, 

 turning well, harrow two or three times at intervals, sow 

 Hungarian grass the latter part of June, cut it in August 

 and re-seed the land. Hungarian, acciording to age at har- 

 vesting, may bo adapted to any class of stock. It makes quite 

 a draft on the land, and, either when it is sown or with the fol- 

 lowing crop, a dressing of cheap fertilizer is no more than fair, 

 like agricultural salt, kainit, or the raw grouud Carolina phos- 

 phate. Knowledge of the facts in every case must determine 

 what can be most economically used." 



AValdo F. Brown, of Ohio, in the same paper, Avrites; "In a 

 season when wheat and clover have been generally killed over a 

 large area of country, many farmers are asking what can we sub- 

 stitute for hay? We have two good substitutes — millet and corn 

 fodder. Either maybe put in, in this latitude, as late as June 10, 

 with a good prospect of a crop. Millet will yield largely on good 

 land, but the land should be finely pulverized. It is best to sow as 

 soon after a rain as the land can be worked, as if sown just before a 

 rain there is more danger of weeds coming up with it. The 

 seed should be covered lightly, and I prefer a plank drag for 

 the purpose, as it presses the earth to the seed, and retains the 

 moisture till it sprouts. When sown for hay, from three pecks 

 to a bushel of seed per acre should be usea." 



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Spikelets 1-fld. in a close or open panicle, rachilla jointed 

 above the lower glumes, often extending beyond the floret into a 

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