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JAPANESE MILLET.—A new variety imported two years ago from Japan, where the grain 
is largely used as human food. The importer in 1891 planted a small plot of ground which yielded at the . 
rate of 63% tons dry straw and over 90 bushels of seed per acre. The yield of seed is surely a remarkable 
one, especially since a considerable amount was lost through the ravages of birds (which prefer it to com- 
mon millet) as well as by rattling out, for unlike common millet, this threshes very easily. There is 
good reason to believe this new variety will prove an exceedingly valuable crop for green fodder or for 
the silo, as it is as much superior in every respect to all other millets, as is uhe Japanese buckwheat, that 
has since its introduction gained such popularity over the common solt formerly largely grown. The 
seed of this millet constitutes an excellent grain for hens, and when ground, is a wholesome, nutritious 
and economical food for cattle. The plants attain an average height of six feet, are short Jointed, and at 
every joint there is put forth an immense number of long, thick, fleshy leaves that increase its val- ¥ 
me as a cattle food. The heads average a foot in length and over six inches in diameter. The illustra- 
tion drawn from nature but scarcely conveys an adequate idea of the great food-producing qualities of 
this Millet. Pkt., 10 cts.; lb., 30 cts.; 3 lbs., 75 cts. By express or freight, peck, 75 cts.; bu., $2.25. 
JERUSALEM CORN. —This corn belongs to the non-saccharine sorghums, and was brought 
here from the arid plains of Palestine by a missionary, who gave two grains of it to a farmer in Finney 
County, Kas. It is pronounced the best 
0 and surest grain crop for dry countries 
g/ and seasons, even better than Kaffir 
Corn, Dhoura and Milo Maize. It grows 
about 3 feet high, makes one large head 
on main stalk, and several smaller 
heads on side-shoots; have seen as high 
as 8 heads on one stalk. The grains are 
pure white and nearly flat. Three 
pounds will plant an acre. The govern- 
ment experimental farm at Garden City 
makes the following report : 
From Henry Clay Brooks, Superintendent 
of the United States Experimental Grass and 
Forage Station, Garden City, Kas.: “This is to 
certify that I raised a fair crop of ‘Jerusalem 
Corn’ on the unirrigated part of the United 
States Experimental farm the past season, 
which was the dryest season in the past 15 years 
at this point, the record showing 10 inches less 
rain fall this year than the average of the past 
15 years. I had 90 acres in crop with forage 
plants, and the Jerusalem Corn was the only 
kind that did any good. I consider it good for 
both man and beast. I have experimented with 
it in fattening a hog, and the hog is in as fine 
condition as I ever saw one. I have also used it 
in my family in the form of hominy. and it cer- 
tainly makes the best hominy that I ever. ate. 
H. C, BROOKS, in Charge.” 
I have had a supply of Jerusalem Corn 
grown for me in Kansas the past season, and 
take pleasure in offering it to my friends at the 
following prices: Packet, 10 cents; pound, 30 
cents; 3 pounds. 75 cents, postpaid. 
GOLDEN WONDER MILLET.—This 
is a Hybrid Millet. The combination was 
brought about by one of Minnesota’s experi- 
mental farmers. Heads 18 inches in length, 
containiug 18,000 seeds, are not at all rare. The 
average length of heads is about 15 inches; 
heighth from ground to top of head, six feet. 
The yield is enormous. The stalk at butt measures about 
one-fourth of an inch, full of broad leaves, resembling 
those of corn, yielding from ten to twelve tons of fodder 
' per acre, which is as easily cured as clover hay. Can be 
grown and matured where corn will not ripen. One of 
the best crops for cutting and feeding green and for soil- 
ing purposes. Pkt., 10 cts.; 1b., 30 cts.; 3 lbs., 75 cts. \ 
KAFFIR CORN.—A New Forage Plant] \ 
from the South.—Kaffir Corn produces two to four= 
heads from a single stalk, and in Georgia has yielded in Se 
single Beason Byte middle of ees: two crops of green fonder = — = 
and a full crop of grain (50 to 60 bus. per acre), he whole stalk i 
cut down as soon as seed heads appear, at once starts asecond JAPANESE MILLET. Pkt., 10 cts. 
growth from the roots. It also stands drought wonderfully. If growth is checked for want of moisture the plant 
waits for rain, and when it comes, at once resumes its growth. On very thin or worn-out lands it yields paying 
crops of grain or forage,even in dry seasons when corn has utterly failed. The whole _Stalk; as well as blades 
makes excellent fodder, and all stock eat it greedily. It is as carly or quick in growth as Minnesota Amber Cane, 
and is therefore reliable in any latitude where Amber Cane has been found useful as a fodder crop. Should be sown 
in drills and cultivated same as Indian Corn. Compared with other sorghums Kaffir Corn has proved itself to be 
early, abundant in yield, reliable in all seasons and a superior crop for both quantity and quality of its product. It 
keeps green, and stalk is brittle and juicy to the last; is not a hard and cane-like growth such as other sorghums, 
Flour made from Kaffir is excellent for batter cakes, muffins, VW 
etc., has a slightly sweetish taste, otherwise is not distinguish- 
ed from wheat. Pkt., 10 cts.; 1b., 40.cts.; 3 1bs., $1.00, postpaid. 
YELLOW MILO MAIZE.—This is another variety 
of the sorghum family, and I cannot do better in describing it 
than by giving the experience of one of my customers (Judge 
Hudson, of Miss.,) had with it. “I planted it in my Irish po- 
tato patch, four by two feet, three stalks to the hill, and about 
200 hills, and cultivated as corn. It was a bold, vigorous grow- 
er and deep green color and continues so yet from bottom to 
top; grows eight to ten feet. About half-way up the stalk and 
on the top are numerous large shoots with fine large blades on 
them like those of the main stalk, and on which shoots are 
other shoots or suckers, all bearing fine heads like the main 
head or stalk, but not quite so large, until from mid-way the 
stalk up is a large mass of heads and fodder. Some stalks have 
as high as twenty heads, weighing from one-fourth to one 
pound per head, and as fine heavy blades as the best common 
corn. One stalk will make a good, rich feed or meal for a 
horse. It makes a beautiful, delicious and perfect pop-corn. 
There is no use to raise anything else for 
horses, cattle, chickens or pop-corn. Fertil- 
ize and cultivate well; nothing of its kind 
will pay as well. It will mature its main 
head in 100 days, and still grow on and ma- O ’ \ ‘ f 
ture others and fodder until frost.” Packet, \ AN vi i il 
10 cts.;pound, 40 cts.; 3 pounds, $1, postpaid. l 
TEOSINTE.-—In this latitude, plant- 
ed July 3d, it produced from one seed, twen- 
ty-seven stalks, and attained a heighth of 
seven feet by Sept.,10th, making a luxuriant 
growth of leaves, which the horses and cat- 
tle ate as freely as young sugar corn. In ap- 
pearance somewhat resembles Indian Corn, 
but the leaves are much longer and broad- 
er, and the stalk contains sweeter sap. In 
its perfection it produces a great number of 
shoots, 12 feet high, yielding such an abun- 
Asmar dance of forage that one plant is sufficient 
=] to feed a pair of cattle for a day. In the 
eaa)— South it excels either Corn or Sorghum for 
Yellow Milo oiling or fodder. 85 stalks have been grown 
BAFFIR CORN. Packet, 10 cents. Maize. from one seed. Pkt, 10c.; 34 Ib., 50¢.; lb., $1.50. TEOSINTE. Packet, 10 cents, 
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