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and also in its habits of growth. It is even 

 stronger in the stem than dhourra and has still less 

 of forage. The seed heads are large, and like those 

 of dhourra, hang on hook-shaped stems. At the 

 Minnesota university experiment station in 1897 

 the plants grew to the hight of about five feet. Like 

 those of dhourra they grew more slowly than Milo 

 maize or Early Amber sorghum. Jerusalem corn 

 should be grown rather for the seed than for the 

 foddei'. It is not probable that either dhourra or 

 Jerusalem corn will be extensively grown for soiling 

 food where Milo maize and sorghum can be grown. 

 Teosinte (Reana hi.rurians) is distinguished 

 from the non-saccharine sorghums in the less erect 

 character of the growth, in the extent to which the 

 plants sucker, in the greater fineness and abundance 

 of the long and slender leaves, and in the manner 

 in which the seed is produced. The seed grows on 

 small ears and the ears grow numerously around 

 every top joint of the seed stem. They are enclosed 

 in a husk. There is probably no fodder plant that 

 tillers so much as teosinte. As many as sixty 

 suckers have been produced by a single plant. In 

 the experiments conducted at the Minnesota univer- 

 sity experiment station in 1898, it was found that 

 when planted in rows three feet apart and thinned 

 to fifteen inches in the row, each plant produced from 

 five to twenty-five stalks. Those thinned to from 

 two to three inches in the row produced from two to 

 twelve stalks. The latter were also much more 

 upright in their growth. Seed heads were not even 

 formed on any of the plants. Teosinte would make 

 an excellent pasture and soiling plant for the south 



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