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JAPANESE MILLET,.—A new variety imported two years ago from Japan, where the grain 
{s largely used as human food. The importer in 1891 planted a small plot of ground which yielded at the 
rate of 634 tons dry straw and over 90 bushels of seed per acre. The yield of seed is surely a remarkable 
seed of this millet constitutes an excellent grain for hens, and when 
and economical food for cattle. The plants attain an average height o: 
every joint there is put ferth an.immense number of long, 
ground, is a wholesome, nutritious aes 
f six feet, are short jointed, and at Ka 
thick, fleshy leaves that increase its val- 
over six inches in diameter. The illustra- 
ea of the great food-producing qualities of 
this Millet. Pkt., 10 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 3 Ibs., $1.00, postpaid. By express or freight, peck, 75 cts. 
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 Finne 
y 
7 County, Kas. It is pronounced the best 
me Ht i and surest grain crop for dry countries 
Ce tA Ht g? and seasons, even better than Kaffir 
Re yal Corn, Dhoura and Milo Maize. It grows 
gy about 3 feet high, makes one large head 
2 rons on main stalk, and several smaller 
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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; 





























resembling 
those of corn, yielding from ten to twelve tons of fodder 








, by the middle of October, two crops of green fodder, == == 
and a full crop of grain (50 to 60 bus. per acre). The whole stalk if 
cut down as soon as seed heads appear, at 6 
growth from the roots. 
Flour made from Kaffir is excellent for 
etc., has a slightly sweetish taste, otherwise is not distinguish- 
ed from wheat. Pkt., 10 cts. ; 1b.,-40 cts.; 3 Ibs., $1.00, postpaid. 
YELLOW MILO MATIZ E.—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 cust 
Hudson, of Miss.,) had with it, 
§ es 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 1 















il frost.” Packet, 
10 cts.;pound, 40 cts.; 3 pounds, $1, postpaid. 
TEOSIN TE. —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 
» STOWth 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- 
dance of forage that one plant is sufficient 
to feed a pair of cattle for a day. In the 
South it excels either Corn or Sorghum for 
Yellow Milo Soiling or fodder. 85 stalks have been grown 
Maize. from one seed, Pkt, 10c.: 4 \b., 50¢.; Ib., $1.50, TEOSINTE. Packet, 10 cents. 
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KAFFIR CORN. Packet, 10 cents. 




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