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pasture crop. For this purpose it is sown rather thick, 

 2 to 3 bushels per acre. Stock is turned in when the crop 

 is 3 to 4 feet high. 



For pasturing, the field should be divided into lots and 

 enough stock should be turned in to eat down the crop 

 in about two weeks. The stock should then be removed 

 to another lot and the pasture given four to six weeks to 

 grow up again. This would require three to four lots. 



It is estimated that one acre will furnish grazing for 

 the equivalent of one animal for one hundred days, or 

 ten animals for ten days. 



264. Sorghum mixtures for pasture. — For pasture 

 purposes German millet is sometimes mixed with sorghum 

 and gives good results. Cereals have been used as a 

 mixture, but it is doubtful whether they add to the value 

 as pasture. In the South, it has been recommended to 

 mix sorghum and cowpeas, for both forage and pasture. 

 Cowpeas give a better-balanced ration. For pasture 

 the sorghum and cowpeas should be drilled in rows about 

 8 to 12 inches apart, in alternating rows. 



265. Sorghum for silage. — Within the corn-belt, sor- 

 ghum compares favorably with corn as a silage crop. 

 In regions of less than 25 inches rainfall, sorghum will 

 probably come to be the most important silage crop. 

 In the South, also, it is likely to supersede corn for silage, 

 especially where the crop is to be grown on rather poor 

 land. 



Sorghum silage is more difficult to preserve than corn, 

 being more likelj^ to ferment. When well preserved it 

 appears to have a feeding value about equal to that of 

 corn silage, though very little experimental work on 

 this point has been done. Sorghum for silage is now in 

 extensive use in many places in the Southern States. 



