FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 
blown about by winds, never tangles, | 
and is always manageable, easily han- 
died. A boy can gather the grain heads 
or the fodder. The seed heads grow 
from 10 to 12 inches in length, and pro- 
duct of grain on good land easily reaches 
50 to 60 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 whole stalk, as well as the blades, 
cures into excellent fodder, and in all 
stages ofits growth is available for green 
feed, cattle, mules and horses being 
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equally fond of it, and its quality not 
surpassed by any other known variety. 
If cut down to the ground, two or more 
shoots spring from the root, and the 
growth is thus maintained 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 Sorghums. It should be put 
in rows not over three feet apart, even 
on best land, and it bears thicker plant- 
ing 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 to5 lbs. of seed 
per.acre. Price of seed, 20c. perlb;lots 
of 10 lbs. for OL. 50, i mail, post bee 
Bianca Oe ell oy 
TEOSINTE. 
(Reana luxurians.) fp REN ORG ae ree 
This is a forage plant. from Central, 
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 situa- | 
tions where the thermometer does not 
fall below freezing point. Cultivated 
as an annual, it will yield a most abun- 
dant 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 planting the seed in Febru- 
ary, 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 cultivation, using only the plough 
thereafter. — 
He also advises cutting the stalles 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 unconsumed, 
and prefer it much to green Indian Corn 
or Sorghum. 
‘Price, $1.75 
per oz. 
per lb. ; 50c. per} 1b. ; 20c. 
Postage prepaid. 
