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J. STECKLER SEED CO., LTD., ALMANAC AND 



DHOURO, or EGYPTIAN CORN. 



Sorghum Vulgare. 



This is a well known cereal. It produces a 

 large quantity of seed, of which fowls and 

 animals are fond. Can also be sown broad- 

 cast for soiling, or in drills for fodder and 

 seed. If sown in drills, one peck of seed per 

 acre is ample. If sown broadcast, one bushel 

 per acre. For grain, the stalks should not 

 be nearer than 10 inches in the drill, but if to 

 be cut repeatedly for soiling, it is better to 

 sow quite thickly in the hills. Seed should 

 not be sown too early, and covered from one- 

 half to one inch. If too much rain in the 

 spring, the seed will not come well; they re- 

 quire more heat than the other Sorghums. 

 GERMAN MILLET. 



Of all the Millets this is the best. It makes 

 gOod hay, and produces heavily. Three 

 pecks sown to the acre broadcast secures a 

 good stand. Can be sown from April till 

 June, but the former month is the best time. 

 Should be cut when in bloom. 



PEARL or CATTAIL MILLET. 



Makes a splendid continuous cutting for- 

 age plant for either green feed or hay. Will 

 largely outyield German Millet. This makes 

 a most nutritious and valuable continuous 

 cutting forage plant, and is increasing in 

 popularity all throughout the country. It 

 will grow ten to twelve feet high, but cutting 

 can commence when it has attained a height 

 of three or four feet, when it will stool out 

 enormously and make a rapid growth, and it 

 can be cut this way three or four times in a 

 season. It can be fed either green or cured 

 as dry forage, making a most nutritious feed, 

 which is relished by all kinds of stock. It 

 is largely used by dairymen and others who 

 have cattle for furnishing them green feed all 

 through the summer, as, if a sufficient 

 quantity is sown, it can be cut as desired, 

 furnishing a daily supply of green food until 

 killed by freezing weather. Sow 5 pounds 

 of seed per acre in drills three feet apart, or 

 sow broadcast at the rate of 20 to 30 pounds 

 per acre. 



HUNGARIAN MILLET. 



This Millet makes a valuable crop on rich 

 soil, epsecially on low lands. It is considered 

 very nutritious. It is important in buying 

 Millet, as well as other seeds, to get the 

 true seed. Sow in this latitude from the 

 latter part of April to the end of July, at the 

 rate of 1 bushel to the acre. 



RURAL BRANCHING SORGHUM or 

 MILLO MAIZE. 



Produces the seed heads upright in a verti- 

 cal position, while others are drooping. The 

 seeds are smaller, but will keep longer than 

 the other varieties. The stalk grows very 

 large and produces a good many large leaves. 

 It suckers and tillers more and more the 



oftener it is cut. It exceeds greatly in yield 

 of green fodder any of the familiar fodder 

 plants, except the "Teosinte." It should be 

 planted exclusively in the drills four feet 

 apart, 18 to 20 inches in the drills. One peck 

 per acre. 



JERUSALEM CORN. 



This belongs to the non-saccharine Sor- 

 ghums. Grows about three feet high. Makes 

 one large head on main stalk and several 

 smaller heads on side shoots, often as many 

 as eight heads on one stalk. The grain is 

 pure white and nearly flat. Ten pounds will 

 plant an acre. 



BROOM CORN. 



Can be planted the same as corn; put the 

 hills closer together in the row. Ten pounds 

 will plant an acre. 



GUINEA GRASS. 



Although this grass will do well on rather 

 poor sandy land, it does much better on richer 

 or fertilized land. Wherever it has had pro- 

 per care the crop is enormous and satisfactory, 

 A tropical grass originally from Africa, it is 

 now grown largely in the East and West 

 Indies. In Jamaica it is held next to sugar 

 in value of crop, a single farmer producing 

 five thousand dollars worth per annum of the 

 hay. Propagated to any desired extent by 

 rapid increase of tillers it is esteemed in 

 Florida and other parts of the south as a first 

 class forage. Cattle eat it with avidity, green 

 or dry. 



JOHNSON GRASS. 

 Sorghum Ilalapense. 



This has been called Cuba grass, Egyptian 

 grass, Means grass, Alabama and Guinea 

 grass. It seems pretty well agreed now, 

 however, to call it Johnson grass, and leave 

 the name Guinea grass for the "Panicum 

 jumentorum," to which it properly belongs. 



It is true that in Mr. Howard's pamphlet, 

 as well as in many periodicals and books, and 

 in letters and common usage, this grass has 

 been far more generally called Guinea grass 

 than the true Guinea grass itself, thus caus- 

 ing vast confusion. It is, therefore, assuredly 

 time to call each by its right name. Johnson 

 grass is perennial and has cane-like roots, or 

 more properly, underground stems, from the 

 size of a goose quill to that of the little finger. 

 These roots are tender, and hogs are fond of 

 and thrive on them in winter. One to one 

 and a half bushels of a good sample of 

 this seed is sufficient for one acre of land. 



The leaf, stalk and panicle of this grass re- 

 semble those of other sorghums. It grows on 

 any land where corn will grow; and like the 

 latter, the better the land the heavier the 

 crop. On rich land the culms obtain a size 

 of over half an inch in diameter, an a height 

 of seven feet. It should be cut while tender, 

 and then all live stock are fond of it, for a 



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