On Green or Fodder Crops. 
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Of the great quantity of green food which it produces I can 
speak with certainty, and I can express a favourable opinion of 
its feeding value." 
Sorghum saccliaratum was considered by many people eligible 
for adoption as a green-crop into English field culture some 
years since ; and in dry, hot summers, a very fair produce was 
grown by those who made trial of it. But the many failures 
which adverse seasons brought, at length disappointed even 
those who at the first believed they had in the plant a grand 
treasure, and little has been heard of it in this country for some 
time. 
Amongst other plants which deserve to be mentioned are the 
Jerusalem artichoke and the golden melon. The former is 
grown extensively for stock in foreign countries, and as it is gene- 
rally found perfectly at home in all soils and situations, and one 
of the hardiest as well as the most productive of vegetables on 
poor land, advocates of its claims for more favourable con- 
sideration have always more or less appeared. But when once 
the Jerusalem artichoke has been allowed admission to any 
place it resolutely refuses to quit it ever after ; consequently the 
plant is seldom allowed into any land subject to regular rota- 
tion, and is usually banished to shady out-of-the-way spots and 
odd corners of fields, from which fresh plants spring up every 
spring, although they are clean dug for tubers every autumn. 
The golden melon has been imported here from the United 
States, and presents an ornamental appearance when the vines 
spread themselves over the surface of the ground like vegetable 
marrows or cucumbers, and golden fruit of the size of large 
turnips appear. The plant can be made to grow very well on 
all dry fertile soils, but a much less weight of produce than 
mangolds or swede turnips would generally be realised. 
Cabbages. 
Cabbages have been adopted into English field culture on a 
small scale for so long a period that the only reason for including 
them in the category of crops not commonly grown rests on the 
limited extent to which they still find favour with the rank and 
file of the farming community, despite the fact of their high 
utility having been continually pointed out ever since the com- 
mencement of the present century, and probably long before. 
The following extract from Arthur Young's " Farmers' Calen- 
dar," published in 1805, may be given in proof of the latter 
statement. 
" I must urge our young farmer to determine to have as many cabbages as 
ho can want for cattle, sheep, and swine from the 1st of October to the last of 
