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ox 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 

 er 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^ 

 vhen the heads begin to flower, when it can be out and 

 bundled 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 succu- 

 [ent 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 

 Bothing like it was ever used for improving a drove of 

 BQules. 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 

 te 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 

 tihe root freely throws up new suckers, and will continue to- 

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

 erops can be cut beforg it is destroyed by the cold. Or, if 

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

 &t 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 OP SUGAE FKOM SORGHUM. 



When sorghum was first introduced to the people of th& 

 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 

 however, and the cultivators were content to make it inta 



