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PEARL or CATTAIL MILLET. 



Makes a splendid continuous cutting 

 forage plant for either green feed or hay. 

 Makes a most nutritious and valuable con- 

 tinuous cutting forage'plant, and is increas- 

 ing in popularity all throughout the country. 

 It will grow ten to twelve feet high, but cut- 

 ting 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 

 cither green or cured as dry forage, mak- 

 ing a most nutritious feed, w^hich 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 

 ty freezing weather. Sow five pounds of 

 seed per acre in drill three feet apart, or 

 sow broadcast at the rate of 20 or 30 pounds 

 per acre. 



HUNGARIAN MILLET. 



This Millet makes a valuable crop on rich 

 soil, especially on low lands. It is consid- 

 ered very nutritious. It is important in buy- 

 ing 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. 



BROOM CORN. 



Can be planted the same as corn; put the 

 hills closer together in the row. Ten pounds 

 will plant an 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. 



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 proper care the crop is enormous and 

 satisfactory. A tropical grass originally 

 from Africa, it is now grov/n largely in 

 the East and ¥/est Indies. In Jamaica it 

 is held next to sugar in value of crop, a 

 single farmer producing five thousand dol- 

 lars worth per annum of the hay. Propa- 

 gated to any desired extent by rapid in- 

 crease 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 Ealapense. 



This has been called Cuba grass, Egyp- 

 tian 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 "pan- 

 icum jumentorum," to which it properly be- 

 longs. 



It is true that in Mr. Howard's pamph- 

 let, 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 it- 

 self, thus causing 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, under- 

 ground 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 suffi- 

 cient for one acre of land. 



The leaf, stalk and panicle of this grass 

 resemble 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, and a height 

 of seven feet. It should be cut while tender, 

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

 few weeks are enough to render it so coarse 

 and hard that animals refuse it or eat spar- 

 ingly. 



BUCKWHEAT, 



For a late summer crop Buckwheat is very 

 profitable, especially in sections where Cow 



Layer Pots and Jardinieres. 



