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.JAPANESE MILLET.— A new variety imported two years ago from Japan, where the grain 

 Is largely used us hum in food. The importer in 1891 planted a small plot of ground which yielded at the 

 rate of tons dry straw and over 00 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 

 goo 1 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 the Japanese buckwheat, that 

 ! a Ince its introduction gained such popularity over the common sort formerly largely grown. The 

 s !■ i .if 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 ioint there is put forth an immense number of long, thick, fleshy leaves that increase its val- 

 ue 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 M lllet. Pkt., 10 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 3 lbs., $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 bv a missionary, who gave two grains of it to a farmer in Finney 



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County, Kas. It is pronounced the best 

 and surest grain crop for dry countries 

 !> 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 un irrigated 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 tine 

 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 hominv 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. Head3 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 meusures 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., 10c; lb., -10c; 3 lbs., jl.00, postpaid. gS 



KAFFIR CORN. -A New Forage Plant 

 from the South.— Kaffir Corn produces two to fours: 

 heads from a single stalk, and In Georgia has yielded in a 

 single season, 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 p . „ q 



cut down as soon as seed heads appear, at once starts a second JAPANESE. IHLLbl, F1S.I., 1U cts. 

 growth from the roots. It also stands drought wonderfully. If growth is checked lor want oi 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 drv seasons when corn has utterly failed. The whole stalk, as well as blades f* 

 makes excellent fodder, and all stock e'at it greedilv. It is as early or quick In growth »as Minnesota Amber Cane, — 

 and is therefore reliable in anv latitude where Amber Cane has been found useful as a fodder crop. Should be sown m 

 in drills and cultivated same as Indian Corn. Compared with other sorghums Kaffir Corn has proved itself to be q 

 early, abundant in yield, reliable in all seasons and a superior crop for both quantity and quality of its product. It i> 

 keeps green, and stalk is brittle and juicy to the last: is not a hard and cane-like growth such as other s&rghums. g» 

 Flour made from Kaffir is excellent for batter cakes, muffins, 

 etc., has a slightly sweetish taste, otherwise is not distinguish- 

 ed from wheat. Pkt.. 10 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 3 lbs., $1.00, postpaid. 



YELLOW MILO M AIZ 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 customers (Judge 

 Hudson, of Miss.,) had with it. "I planted it in my Irish po- 

 tato parch, 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 line large blades on 

 them like those of the main stalk, and on which shoots (ire 

 other shoots or suckers, all bearing fine heads like the main 

 head or stalk, but not quite so large, until from mid-war 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 line heavy blades as the best common 

 corn. One stalk will make a good, rich feed or meal for a 



horse. 



KAFF1K CORN. Packet, 10 cents. 



Yellow Wilo 

 Maize. 



beautiful, delicious and perfect pop-corn 

 i here is no use to raise anything else for 

 horses, cat tle, chickens or pop-corn. F?rtil- 

 Ize and cultivate well; nothing of its kind 

 will pay as well. It will mature Its lOaiu 

 head In 100 days, and still grow on and ma- 

 ture others and fodder until frost." Packet 

 10 cts.tpound. 40 cts.; 3 pounds, $1. postpaid 



TEOSINTE.-In this latitude, pla 

 ed July 3d. it produced from one seed, twen- 

 ty-seven stalks, anil attained a heighth of 

 seven feet by Sept. ,10th, making n 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- 

 dance of forage tht.t one plant is sufficient 

 to feed a pair of cattle for a day. In the 

 South It excels either Corn or Sorghum for 

 soiling or fodder. 85 stalks have been grown 

 from one seed. Pkt, 10c; U lb.. 50c; lb., $1.50. 



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TEOSINTE. Packet, 10 cents. 



