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The avortige height of growth on good strong land, is 5A to 6 feet ; 

 on thin hind, 4i to 5 feet. The stalk is stout, never blown about by 

 winds, never tangles, and is always manageable, easily handled. A 

 boy can gather the grain heads or the fodder. The seed heads grow 

 from 10 to 12 inches in length, and product of grain on good land easily 

 reaches 5U to 6o bushels per acre. 



It has the quality common to many Sorghums of resisting drought. 

 If the growth is checked by want of moisture, the plant waits for rain, 

 and then at once resumes its processes, and in the most disastrous 

 seasons has not failed so far to make its crop. On very thin and 

 worn lands, it yields paying crops of grain and forage, even in dry 

 seasons in which corn has utterly failed, on the same lands. 



The Avhole stalk, as well as the blades, cures into excellent fodder, 

 and in all stages of its growth is available for green feed, cattle, 

 mules and horses being equally fond of it, and its quality not sur- 

 passed by any other known variety. If cut down to the ground, two 

 or more shoots spring from the root, and the growth is thus main- 

 tained until checked by frost. 



The Kaffir Corn may be planted in the latter part of March, or 

 early in April. It bears earlier planting than other Millets or Sor- 

 ghums. It should be put in rows not over three feet apart, even on 

 best land, and it bears thicker planting than any other variety of 

 Sorghum ; should be massed in the drill on good land, for either grain 

 or forage purposes, and also on thin land, if forage mainly is desired. 

 No plant can equal it for quality and quantity of grain and forage on 

 thin lands. Use 3 to 5 lbs. of seed ]jer acre. Price of seed, 50c. per lb ; 

 lots of 10 lbs, for $4.00 ; 15 lbs. for '¥5.00, by mail, post paid 65c. per lb ; 

 i lb., 20c. 



TEOSINTE. 



(Reanaluxurians.) 

 This is a forage plantfromCentral America. It resembles Indian Corn 

 in aspect and vegetation, but produces a great number of shoots 3 to 4 

 yards high ; it is perennial, but only in such situations where the 

 thermometer does not fall below freezing point. Cultivated as an 

 annual, it will yield a most abundant crop of excellent green fodder. 



Considering the Teosinte a superior forage plant, the following- 

 extract of a letter from Mr. Chas. Debremond of Thibodeaux, La., 

 will give additional light on the cultivation of same :— In describing 

 his experience with Teosinte, he advises ]:)lanting the seed in 

 February, so as to have the plants up early in March, as it takes some 

 14 or 20 days for the seed to germinate. He prefers planting in rows, 

 as giving a heavier crop than when in hills ; and, as its growth during 

 the first month is very slow, he gives it a good hoeing for its first cul- 

 tivation, using only the t)lough thereafter. 



He also advises cutting the stalks for green food when about 4 

 feet high, and specially recommends cutting them close to the ground, 

 as tending to make a much heavier second growth than when cut 

 higher, His horses, mules and cattle eat the stalks with great avidity, 

 leaving no part unconsuraed, and prefer it much to green Indian Coin 

 or Sorghum. 



Price, $^1.75 per lb. ; 50c. per \ lb. ; 20c. per oz. Postage prej)aid. 



