JAPANESE MILLET. 
The best recent introduction for the Silo and Cutting Green. 
Especially valuable for the Northern and New England States. 
Entirely distinct from any other millet, grows tall and 
produces an enormous crop. It grows 6 to 8 feet high, stands 
remarkably well notwithstanding its great height, and yields 
from 10 to 12 tons green fodder per acre. When cured it 
makes an excellent quality of hay, and its feeding value is far 
superior to corn fodder, and it is much relished by all kinds of 
stock, whether green or cured. If to be made into hay, cure as 
you would a heavy crop of clover. An ideal ensilage mixture 
may be composed of two parts of this millet to one part of soja 
beans (see page 34), mixed when filling the silo. The soja 
beans supply the albuminoids and fat in which the Corn and 
Millet are deficient. This mixture forms a complete balanced 
ration for milch cows without the addition of grain, though 
it is, of course, advisable to feed grain occasionally as a change. 
This ensilage combination will certainly become popular, 
and when generally used, as we predict it will be, it. will 
result in a saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars annu- 
ally to the dairymen and farmers of the United States. 
This Millet does not endure drought well, except it be sown 
early in retentive soil, and it is not adapted to the climate, nor 
is it recommended for the Southern States; but north of Wash- 
ington, D. C., and ce aa for good, rich soils, we confidently 
recommend its general cultivation. It will produce a fair 
second cutting, if sown early in May, and cut when in blossom. 
It may be sown from the middle of May to the Ist of July, 
broadcast, at the rate of 15 Ibs. per acre, but it is better to 
sow it in drills, 12 to 18 inches apart, using 10 to 12 lbs 
per acre, and hoed between the rows to keep ‘down all weeds 
until the plant attains a height of 12 to 1S inches when its rapid 
growth will smother all weeds. (See cut.) 
(PANICUM CRUS-GALLI MAJOR.) 
FROM EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE 
HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION, 
OF THE 
MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 
FOR GREEN FODDER AND THE SILO. ‘Of Japanese Millet several 
pieces, of an acre or more each, were sown for feeding green or for the silo. The 
earliest, sown broadeast about the middle of May on rich land, one peck of seed 
to the acre, averaged about six feet in height, and produced over 15 TONS PER 
ACRE. This was cut from day to day, beginning before the millet had blos- 
somed. Another field of about an acre, sown the last of June, yielded at the 
rate of rather over 18 tons per acre. Another fiel< 1, sown July 26th, after a crop 
of hay was removed, yielded about 12 tons per acre. The crop of the two last 
fields was put into the silo, That cut from day to day, and fed to cows, was 
much relished. Its superiority to well-eared flint corn fodder was very appar- 
ent. Cows with both before them always take the millet first; they consume it 
without waste, while they are apt to leave a part of the stalks of the corn as it 
approaches maturity. In alternating this feed with corn fodder, the cows 
invariably increased in milk when put upon the millet, and fell off when changed 
to corn. 
‘*Tt has been ensiled with soja beans,—about two parts by 
millet and one of beans. 
FOR HAY. ‘‘A more extensive trial of this millet for hay has been carried 
out this year, than ever before. It is coarse and difficult to dry. I have always 
felt that these qualities would render it undesirable asa crop for hay. We have, 
however, cured it successfully this year, mostly in small cocks, as clover is often 
cured; and the result is encouraging. The hay is coarse, but is freely eaten by 
horses, being preferred to 2 good sample of timothy, red Sop and clover mixture. 
The yield of the millet is very large, having on good land amounted to 6 tons 
per acre of well-cured hay. It will produce a fair second cutting if sown early 
in May and eut when in blossom.” 
weight of the 
This combination makes very superior silage.” 
Hundreds of our customers who have procured seed of Japanese Millet from use 
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can endorse the above. 
Price, 10c. lb.; 10 Ibs., 80c.;100 Ibs., $7.00. 
Prof. William P. Brooks, of the Hatch Experiment Station, Amherst, Mass., writes us:—““AFTER CAREFUL EXAMINATION OF SAMPLES from various 
sources and comparison of purity, germination and price, | have decided on ordering of you the greater proportion of grass seed, etc., nee 
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