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SHALLU 
This non-sacoharine sorghum 
came originally from India, where 
it is extensively cultivated under 
the name of Shallu. It is fre- 
quently called California Rice 
Corn, California Wheat and Egyp- 
tian Wheat. 
It came to us from California 
some five or six years ago. It is 
an excellent variety, but is not 
well known. 
It grows quite tall and stools 
out from the root, a single grain 
producing from three to six stalks. 
The heads, as you will note from 
the photo, are quite large and 
have a lot of grain. The heads 
are similar to broom corn heads 
and are well filled with large, 
plump, round white seeds. It 
makes a lot of fodder and is 
quite drought-resistant. 
It makes excellent feed for 
horses and cattle, and for chicken 
feed there is nothing better. It 
can be popped like Popcorn and 
pops out to a nice crisp kernel. 
When ground it makes excellent 
flour for pancakes. 
It makes good fodder but is 
more of a grain than a forage 
crop. It will form more seeds 
than any other variety of the 
sorghum family. 
It should be sown in rows three 
feet apart, sowing 3 to 5 pounds 
per acre. 
If sown for fodder only it can 
be sown broadcast at the rate of 
about 30 to 50 lbs. per acre. 
Every farmer should try some 
Shallu, and especially if he raises 
chickens. 
Lb. 10c. 
Postage 5c per pound extra. 
MILO 
SHALLU 
JERUSALEM CORN. (White Durra.) It 
is pronounced the best and surest grain crop 
for dry countries and seasons, even better 
than Kaffir Corn, Dourrha and Milo Maize. 
It grows aboixt five feet high, makes one large 
head on main stalk and several smaller heads 
on side shoots. Have seen as high as eight 
heads on one plant. The grains are pure 
white, and nearly flat. Three pounds will 
plant one acre.. . . Lb. 10c 
YELLOW MILO MAIZE. (Milo.) Growth 
is tall, 9 to 12 feet, stooling from the ground, 
like White Milo Maize, but not so much. It 
sends shoots also from the joints. Seed heads 
grow to great size, often weighing % of a 
pound, sometimes a full pound, after ripening. 
On account of its branching habits this grain 
should be planted in rows 4 to 5 feet apart, and 
2 to 3 feet in the drill, or 2 plants in a hill, 3 
to 5 feet apart Lb. 10c 
JERUSALEM CORN 
BROWN DOURRHA. (Durra.) Similar to the Jerusalem Corn. Grain same size and shape, but 
of brown color instead of white, as the Jerusalem Corn. It withstands dry weather better than Kaffir 
Corn and Milo Maize, and is a sure cropper every year. Raised more for the grain than for the fodder. 
Yields immensely. Three or four pounds will plant an acre Lb. iqc 
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