HENDERSON'S AMERICAN FARMER'S MANUAL. 



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MILLBTS, SORGHUMS, &c. 



(Prices subject to variation.) 



COMMON MILLET. (Panicum Miliaceum.) Eequires a 

 dry, light, rich soil, and grows two and a half to four feet high, 

 with a fine bulk of stalks and leaves, and is excellent for forage. 

 Price on application. 

 GERMAN OR GOLDEN MILLET. (Panicum Mili- 

 aceum, var. Aureum.) An 



improved variety, medium 



early, growing three to five 



feet high. No other grass 



anywhere near approaches 



its enormous yield when 



grown under favorable 



circumstances. The heads 



are closely condensed, and 



the spikes are very numer- 

 ous. The seeds round, 



golden yellow, and beauti- 

 ful in appearance, and con- 

 tained in rough, bristly 



sheaths. Our seed is pure 



and Southern grown, and 

 f '-^^^. tUyW fc^W^^I^CX ^\ x \ yields much heavier crops 

 ' //7fi^^J5!gHi\sK»^Kp3lTO \ x \ than degenerate Northern 



and Western grown. 

 Price, 10 cts. per lb. ; 



$2.00 per bushel ; 84.00 per 



100 lbs. 

 Hungarian Millet 



or Hungarian 



Grass. (Panicum 



Germanicum .) This 



species grows less rank, 



with smaller stalks. Its 



leaves are very succulent 



and it furnishes an abun- 

 dance of green fodder, often 



yielding two or three tons 



of hay per acre. It is very 



popular and valuable with 



those who are clearing 



timber lands. (See cut.) 



Price, 10 cts. per lb. ; SI. 75 



per bush. ; §3.50 per 100 lbs. 



PEARL MILLET. 



(Pennisetum Spicatum.) 

 This has been cultivated for some years in some of the Southern 

 States, under the names of African Cane, Egyptian Millet, Japan 

 Millet, Cat-tail Millet, and Horse Millet. It grows with tropical lux- 

 uriance in strong loamy soil, particularly if well enriched, and then 

 attains a height of from 7 to 9 feet, and produces an enormous quantity 

 of green fodder, for which purpose it can be cut several times during 

 the season, as it immediately starts a new growth after cutting, 

 and grows with great rapidity. It will prove of exceptional value 

 if grown in sections subject to protracted droughts, where natural 

 grasses dry up, as it will keep on growing, though of course not 

 so luxuriantly. It is best sown in drills 20 inches apart, in beds 12 

 feet wide, leaving an alleyway 6 feet wide between the rows, so that 

 there will be space enough to cure the fodder on an extemporized 

 fence. 



Sow in drills, 5 to 6 lbs. per acre ; if broadcast, 8 lbs. per acre. 

 "Weight per bush., 56 lbs. 



Price of Clean Seed, 20 cts. per lb. ; or by mail, 30 cts. per lb. ; 

 $14.00 per 100 lbs. 



EARLY AMBER SUGAR CANE. A variety which 

 has been largely tested in many parts of the country with great 

 success. Being of somewhat slim growth, it does not stand 

 droughts of the South as well as the Early Orange, but for growing 

 North'it is unsurpassed. It is exceedingly early, and makes the 

 finest quality of syrup and sugar. 



Price, 15 cts. per lb. ; $6.00 per 100 lbs. 



EARLY ORANGE SUGAR CANE. Yields about 

 twenty-five per cent, more cane, and is also much more succulent 

 than any other variety. The stalks are much heavier, but not 

 quite so tall, and it is a little later than the Amber, and is better 

 adapted for culture in the South. It does not succeed well north 

 of 43 degrees. 



Price, 15 cts. per lb. ; $6.00 per 100 lbs. 



BROOM CORN, EVERGREEN. This variety is of 

 great value from the fact that it is entirely free from all crooked 



HUNGARIAN MILLET. 



brush, and it does not get red in the field before it is cut, but 

 remains strictly green, and consequently always commands the 

 highest market price. 

 Price, 15 cts. per lb. ; $6.50 per 100 lbs. 



EGYPTIAN RICE CORN. In our trials last season, 

 we found this variety to be the best fodder plant of all the Sorghum 

 family. It grew with us 10 feet high, 8 feet of which was good 

 fodder. It has erect-growing large heads, resembling Rural 

 Branching Doura. We strongly recommend this variety for fodder. 



Price, 15 cts. per lb. ; 6 lbs. for 70 cts. (sufficient to plant an 

 acre) ; S10.00 per 100 lbs. (Weight, 50 lbs. per bushel.) 



TEOSINTE. (Reana Luxurians.) A semi-tropical forage 

 plant, considered by many to be superior to Sorghum or Millo 

 Maize. The plant resembles Indian Corn, but is more compact and 

 slender. It suckers more than any other forage plant, and pro- 

 duces 3 to 4 cuttings of good fodder during the summer. There 

 has hitherto been great difficulty in getting seed that will grow, 

 and this has retarded its cultivation. Our tests of Teosinte last 

 year showed an average germination of 90%, and there is no 

 reason to fear that this cannot be kept up. 



$1.25 per lb. ; 100 lbs., $100.00. 



RURAL BRANCHING DOURA. (Millo Maize, Sor- 

 ghum Vulgare. ) A wonderfully productive fodder plant that has been 

 thoroughly tried, and is seemingly superior to all others for soiling, 

 silos, and green or dry fodder. It has great capacity for standing 

 drought, and can be cut at any stage, or cured for fodder. It shoots 

 out strongly, 6 to 16 stalks are frequently produced from one seed, 

 and it starts a new growth rapidly after being cut for fodder, makes 

 a great amount of foliage, and can be cut for green feed several 

 times in the season. Plant and cultivate in the same manner as 

 corn. 4 to 5 pounds required to plant an acre. 



Price, 20 cts. per lb. ; $10.00 per 100 lbs. 



YELLOW BRANCHING DOURA. (Yellow Millo 

 Maize.) This is earlier than the Bural Branching, and of taller 

 growth, often attaining a height of 9 to 12 feet, but it does not 

 stool out quite as much from the ground, although it branches out 

 from the joints. Its seed heads grow very large and heavy on 

 good ground, and when ripe hang over, and the grains are large 

 and plump, and double the size of the Millo Maize, and are of a 

 deep golden color. It 

 produces an enormous 

 quantity of green fod- 

 der, for which stock 

 show a marked parti- 

 ality. Cultivate same 

 as corn; plant 4 lbs. 

 to the acre. Price, 20 

 cts. per lb. ; $12.00 per 

 100 lbs. 



Kaffir Corn. A 



variety of Sorghum, cul- 

 tivated for both forage 

 and grain. A non- 

 saccharine Sorghum, 

 growing from 4V£ to 

 6 feet high, is stocky 

 and erect, and has 

 wide foliage. Kaffir 

 Corn has the quality 

 common to all Sor- 

 ghums of resisting 

 drought, and in this 

 fact is to be found its 

 peculiar value to 

 Southern sections. It 

 has yielded paying 

 crops of grain and for- 

 age even in dry sea- 

 sons, when corn has 

 utterly failed. The 

 culture is the same as 

 for Field Corn. (See 

 cut.) Circulars, with 

 full particulars as to 

 culture, etc., on appli- 

 cation. Price, 15 cts. 

 per lb. ; $8.00 per 100 



lbS. KAFFIR CORN. 



The Permanent Pasture Grass Seed proved all I could desire ; cut two good crops from it this summer. — I. B. Alexander. Staten Island. 



